A new startup called Webaroo allows you to search the web from your laptop or handheld, without actually connecting to the Internet. Amazing, don’t you think?
While biggies like Google, Yahoo and MSN are busy sweating it out to get people online, this Bellevue-based startup fills in the gap for those who are not yet online.
Fancy a mobile phone that is a doctor, an interpreter and enables two-way video communication. Even as we wait for 3G mobile phones to take off that kind of vision would indeed seem too farfetched.
But mobile-users in Japan and Korea could get their x-ray images examined by their doctor and feedback available on a mobile phone by about 2010. That’s when 4G (fourth generation) mobile services will take off.
The new applications — like healthcare on the move — will be on 4G as it will enable ultra high-speed data transfers at over 100 megabits per second. Nokia has come up with a 4G mobile phone design where you will actually wear the phone as a wristband. The wrist phone can work independently as a phone or work with a bluetooth style headpiece.
The wrist piece could be used to pay metro fare, compare prices of holiday packages, make a call or just pay for a movie ticket. On the other hand, Samsung wants to use 4G phones as interpreters and portable doctors.
Source: ET
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Nokia and Yahoo! today extended their partnership to offer Yahoo! branded services including Yahoo! Mail and Messenger on Nokia's wide range of mobile phones operating on the Series 40 platform. Yahoo! services will initially be available on the newly announced Nokia 6300, the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5200. Moving forward these services and the ability to synchronise Yahoo! contacts, tasks and calendar on the PC and phone will be added to an even wider range of Nokia's Series 40 devices.
"Since the Series 40 platform was introduced in 2002, Nokia has sold more than 400 million mobile phones which operate using the platform," says Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Phones, Nokia. "In addition to the millions of users who can add Yahoo! services to their S60 smartphone, today's announcement empowers tens of millions of people with the ability to enjoy their favourite Yahoo! services on an even broader ranges of Nokia devices."
Source: Nokia press
A new research report from the wireless analyst firm Berg Insight forecasts that 60 percent of WCDMA handset shipped worldwide will have integrated GPS / Galileo receivers by 2010. Satellite positioning technology enables delivery of location based services such as personal navigation on mobile phones. Another significant benefit is the ability to position mobile emergency calls with high accuracy.
Source: 3G.co.uk
…will store your latte preferences and order it for you when you walk up to a coffee stand (which it’s also located for you), says Nokia CTO Tero Ojanpera. And all this by 2010, too.
Heady stuff. Didn’t realize that device convergence would usurp the latte-ordering function of human beings, too.
Source: Feedblitz
With the objective of enhancing the stock market skills for its subscribers, Reliance Communications has announced the commercial launch of ‘Stock Mania’. On downloading this application the user is provided with a virtual fund of Rs 10 lakh as part of the registration. With this virtual fund, the player can start trading in stocks and monitor the portfolio on a real-time basis, without having any financial investments or implications.
Source: The Financial Express
Telecom players push mobile Internet to stay abreast with times, and push up their revenue ratings. Indian carriers saw an addition of 6.7 million new users in the month of October. With 136.22 million users, the mobile subscriber base is six times the number of people in India who have a desktop computer. Clearly, anything to do with mobiles is a killer application.
Indian telecom players are fast realising the need to push mobile Internet to salvage their ARPUs (average revenue per users).
Early this month, domestic telecom player, Hutch, joined hands with MSN to enable mobile search, and now Bharti Airtel and Google have come together to empower mobile search for its subscribers.
Source: iSource updates
