Responding to recent allegations that free
Internet telephony calls aren't possible on the very
latest N95 handset, Gerry O'Prey – CEO with
WiFiMobile - has crushed such rumours...More
Anti-culture shock phone game
Boffins at the University of Portsmouth are developing a mobile phone
game to reduce the cultural shock for foreign students coming to study in
Britain...More
RIM has problems in Europe
Given the recent outage in North America caused for RIM, you'd have thought that
the company would be more forthcoming about a similar problem in Europe...More
RIM denies any problems exist
RIM has fervently denied experiencing any problems with its
service in Europe. A spokesman told Mobile Insight
that any disruption over the last weekend was down to planned maintenance...More
Microsoft acquires Screentonic
Microsoft has just noticed it might be on the verge of missing out on one of the
latest candidates – advertising on the mobile web. So it has decided to acquire
a French mobile advertising specialist – Screentonic...More
IP Drum offers Skype to mobile gateway
A GSM to IP gateway called the IP Voicelink from IP Drum is aimed at regular
mobile phone users because you don't need a handset that supports Wi-Fi...More
Player X lands more mobile TV clients
While rumours abound that rivals like Mobitv, are pulling out of the UK market, Player X claims to have signed two more UK operators to its Geektv
offering....More
Ericsson boosted by Sony Ericsson
How the tables have turned. Ericsson has just admitted that: "The growing
earnings in Sony Ericsson contributed significantly to [its] improved result." ...More
Text-over-IP is next challenge
Forget the current battles over support for VoIP being disabled inside certain
Nokia models like the N95. The really big fight in the mobile space will be
centred around text-over-IP...More
Snippets
Mobile Insight has been inundated with messages from a
Russian reader. He appears to desire publicity for a Russian site -
http://ya.ru. There is a mobile version here ...
http://city.ya.ru/menu.xwml. As none
of our editors speak Russian, we'd love to know whether this is a genuine search
engine or just some kind of bizarre con trick.
Revelations about former BP CEO, Lord Browne's personal life,
have revealed that the went into business as a ringtone vendor. In an effort to help his lover, Jeff Chavalier, Browne
and two of his associates at BP, set up a company called Txist.
The company appears to have collapsed after a year. There's
no trace of a ringtone site of that name and Txist.com
sells nutritional products.
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Fanerotica
Fanerotica is the creation of a Czech mobile house, Wirenode. To play this
online mobile game you have to certify that you are over 18. It's very
definitely aimed
only at heterosexual males, by-the-way. Indeed, Fanerotica is definitely one
of those games for mobile geeks only. The rules are that players have to chat up a
'virtual' lady by trying out their best pick-up lines. The more
successful you are, the more of her clothes she takes off. The attraction to
this game is, however, that you can watch naughty videos on a regular mobile
phone - not just via streamed video on a 3G connexion. For those with the older
style WAP phones, the system only displays pictures, though. The game is
intended to demonstrate, er, Wirenode's great skills at creating a system
that automatically recognises the characteristics and capabilities of your
mobile phone.
ed
only at heterosexual males, by-the-way. Indeed, Fanerotica is definitely one
of those games for mobile geeks only. The rules are that players have to chat up a
'virtual' lady by trying out their best pick-up lines. The more
successful you are, the more of her clothes she takes off. The attraction to
this game is, however, that you can watch naughty videos on a regular mobile
phone - not just via streamed video on a 3G connexion. For those with the older
style WAP phones, the system only displays pictures, though. The game is
intended to demonstrate, er, Wirenode's great skills at creating a system
that automatically recognises the characteristics and capabilities of your
mobile phone.