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SMS Window Auction

17 Mar 2006

Mobile technology marches on, especially in Denmark, where interactive mobile shopping just got taken to another level.

Window Shopping

From Guerrilla Innovation:

The exclusive department store ILLUM in Copenhagen recently launched an SMS-auction concept called Window Shopping.

Between March 2nd and 24th, the store is putting three luxury items on auction everyday. The items are placed in the window, facing pedestrians who can submit their bids via SMS.

The latest bids are displayed on plasma screens, so that people can the follow the action in real time.

Visit Illum if you understand Danish.

 
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Mobilicio.us Beta

09 Mar 2006

Access your del.icio.us bookmarks from your mobile device. Mobilicio.us is a “mashup” that combines the del.icio.us online bookmarking service with Google Mobile. This allows you to browse through “mobilized” versions of your del.icio.us bookmarks from your phone browser or other limited-display browsers. Visit the team blog to stay up to date.

Mobilicio.us

To get started, simply visit http://mobilicio.us from your mobile browser. Available for Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile & Verizon.

Mobilicio.us would not be possible without the incredibly efficient (and generous) del.icio.us API. On top of the del.icio.us API, Mobilicio.us uses a version of mySQLicious which has been modified to support caching del.icio.us bookmarks for multiple accounts. Links displayed through Mobilicio.us are altered to use Google Mobile to “mobilize” the site.

via Textually

 
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MySpace Teams Up With Cingular

01 Mar 2006

Not so new, and a bit overhyped is the new feature MySpace is offering to its users. Instead of a notification via email, you can have it sent to you via SMS. It’s a bit of a bummer, because the launch makes it seem so spectacular while in fact it’s nothing more than email forwarding. But still, mobile is the future, and MySpace is a very huge network, so Cingular made a good deal and I think MySpace has cashed in a lot.

MySpace, the popular social networking site, added support for receiving MySpace alerts on your cell phone via text messaging for Cingular subscribers. The alerts are to let users know when they have received things such as messages, comments, picture comments, friend requests, and event invitations.

To receive alerts a user must input their Cingular mobile telephone number and then input a verification code that they will receive in a text message on their phone to complete the activation process. There is no word yet if or when they will expand this service to other cell phone providers, such as Verizon Wireless or T-Mobile, but with the rapidly increasing popularity of text messages it’s likely to happen and happen soon.

From Daily Phreak | via Textually

 
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Google Teams Up With Sony Ericsson

28 Feb 2006

Texutally reports that Sony Ericsson has signed a deal with Google that will mean owners of the Sony Ericsson mobile phones will be able to file to a personal blog on the move as soon as they turn on their new phone.

“The company today announced that it will be integrating Google’s Blogger and Web Search features on all its future mobile phones. Owners of a blogger.com account will be able to file stories via their mobile phone on the move with the included software.”

Darla Mack links to an article on Search Engine Journal and says:

Google and Sony claim to be the first in the US cell market to provide pre-loaded blogging application with a tight integration to the mobile camera and easy set-up for mobile users who do not already have a Blogger blog. Have we forgotten that Nokia’s Lifeblog integrated with Typepad and comes preinstalled on certain Nokia devices?

Indeed, somewhere in 2005 Nokia came up with Lifeblog, so Google & Sony Ericsson are definitely not the first companies to team up and deliver this kind of service. I do however think that they are a worthy competitor to Nokia and Typepad. Any speculation on the next team that will deliver a combo for mobile & blogs.

 
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Mabber Mobile And Web IM

24 Feb 2006

Mabber is Instant Messaging based on the Jabber/XMPP standard, either web-based and as a mobile application. It can be accessed from any browser, and there’s Safari support coming up too for the Mac lovers. You’ll need a recent mobile phone equipped with Java and some sort of data-plan to run the app on your mobile. An estimated 1 kb of data allows for about 7 messages. That makes it less expensive than SMS.

Mabber Beta

Mix open instant messaging protocol Jabber with mobile phones and you get Mabber, a new product from a team based in Cologne, Germany. The team at Mabber were early adopters of the Jabber protocol and with the lower mobile data charges in their home country decided to develop an application that would allow mobile users to communicate with each other using the protocol, thus save on SMS costs.

Mabber integrates ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and Jabber in one web browser-based instant messager. After logging in you can transfer the existing contacts from other instant messaging networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!) to your account.

There’s a chat history (which can be fully searched later), a grouping function and group chat and context menu’s to bring up the numerous options.

To install the mobile application you go to the site and enter your mobile number, you in return receive an sms with a download link, you follow that, it installs, executes, you enter your username and password and you are online. From that point you are able to access all your IM contacts and communicate with them using a standard mobile keypad.

Take the QuickTour if you need more info.
Try to score an invite via TechCrunch.
(They’ve got 50 invites if you send an email with the subject line mentioned at the bottom of the review post of this service)
Check out Mabber – via [TechCrunch]

 
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Mobile Auctions

23 Feb 2006

A new competitor in the online auctioning business is taking on eBay by offering a mobile alternative. ‘Hunt For It’ is a new online auction site with integrated mobile technology, which means that registered users can actively bid on any ‘hunt for it’ auction via their mobile phone. Registered users can sign up for text alerts so a buyer is no longer tied to his computer to monitor the bidding to make sure he wins.

Hunt For It

A new UK-based online auction site, ‘Hunt For It’ has launched today, offering free listings and mobile bidding from any network.

The site is set for launch on 1 March, and has been created by father and son team, Rikki and Martin Hunt. Martin Hunt, 16, pitched the idea of creating an eBay rival site to his entrepreneur father and current Chairman of Swindon FM.

Sellers receive 5p each time a text bid is sent and they can list all items for free. Hunt For It goes live with some 15,000 items across a range of categories.

Check out Hunt For It – via [Netimperative]

 
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Microsoft Goes VoIP

20 Feb 2006

From TheBusinessOnline:

Microsoft has developed a Skype-style free internet voice service for mobile phones that City analysts believe could wipe billions off the market value of operators such as Vodafone.

The service is included in a mobile version of Microsoft Office Communicator due to be released this year. It will take the form of a voice-over internet protocol (VoIP) application that allows Office users to make free voice calls over wi-fi enabled phones running Windows Mobile software. It uses the internet as a virtual phone network as well as accessing e-mail, PowerPoint and other Office applications.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer dropped his bombshell at the mobile operators’ annual 3GSM show in Barcelona last week. The significance of his remarks was missed because of his effusive and eccentric delivery.

This is so typically Microsoft. Once again, they’re not the first player in the market, but they’ll come up with some crazy all-in tool that wipes out many small players, possibly to then take on the major free VoIP services. I can’t wait to test this out. Definitely to be continued !

via [CustomerWorld]

 
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Retrieved: Deleted SMS Messages

19 Feb 2006

Where do you think the SMS messages you delete go to? SMS heaven? Wrong. They’re still there, you just can’t see them. There’s even a technology to retrieve all deleted content and it’s called SIMCon. Here’s what it does:

SIMCon is a program that allows the user to securely image all files on a GSM SIM card to a computer file with a standard smart card reader. The user can subsequently analyze the contents of the card including stored numbers and text messages.

Some of SIMCon’s features:

  • Read all available files on a SIM card and store in an archive file
  • Analyze and interpret content of files including text messages and stored numbers
  • Recover deleted text messages stored on the card but not readable on phones
  • Manage PIN and PUK codes
  • Print report that can be used as evidence based on user selection of items
  • Secure file archive using hashing
  • Export items to files that can be imported in popular spreadsheet programs
  • Supports international charsets

Related: How an Oyster card could ruin your marriage

Check out SIMCon – via [Textually]

 
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