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Mobivention, has signed a
distribution agreement with United Media for
PEANUTS. They will make image products such as wallpaper, themes and
Flash Lite wallpapers. Mobivention will also offer MMS Cards and Java
games. The agreement provides mobivention with the distribution rights for the content throughout 9 Central and Eastern European countries - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia (FYROM), Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
For the first time, PEANUTS will appear on mobile phones in the
mentioned countries. The mobile content features the hilarious
adventures of the entire PEANUTS gang.
They plan to build theme specific sub portals for PEANUTS, which will offer end consumers, mobile network operators and licensors a significant added value.
For those traveling this holiday weekend and want to notify friends or family of flight delays, they can do it for free with text at the San Francisco International Airport.CellTrust Corporation is offering free FlightAssist, real-time flight monitoring at SFO. The service provides information on flight arrival times and other information to passengers and those traveling to the airport to pick up travelers.
With CellTrust's FlightAssist service, passengers can notify a circle of friends in real-time through text messages on a cell phone if there is a flight delay or cancellation at SFO.
Real-time mobile flight monitoring and airport information management is
expected to streamline the passenger flow to and from the
airport. Flight delays, cancellations, gate changes and flight arrivals
are communicated within seconds to the recipient's mobile phone. Those
picking up passengers will receive notification should there be a change
while the passenger is still on board the airplane. FlightAssist helps
everyone remain one step ahead and takes the guess work, stress and
endless waiting out of flying and picking up at the airport.
CellTrust FlightAssist is also available for a fee for other airports.
The new Facebook application built for Sony Ericsson uses the unique interface of the Xperia X1 to deliver an intuitive version of the site. It puts images of your friends onto your phone's desktop (standby screen) and shows their latest status updates as you touch their images. Touch through to access more Facebook features.
Alltel Perks is a free content service for Alltel customers that is ad-supported. The downloaded app at the Alltel Shop, Alltel Perks delivers content to the phone’s idle screen when the handset is not in use. Customized content includes sports scores, weather, discounts and trivia.
Users will receive content including discount offers from local merchants, coupons for favorite restaurants. Delivered messages are maintained in the “Recent Offer Menu” folder for a short period of time, so customers can easily take advantage of current offers and discounts.
The service delivers offers and content to subscribers when their phone is not in use. As offers download to the handset, users can open the banner to display more content by selecting the “View” hot button as indicated on the phone. If any other button is selected the offer will go away, as to not be intrusive. While airtime charges may apply to the service, the initial download of the Alltel Perks application from the Alltel Shop is free for Alltel customers.
Trimble and AT&T helps keep you fit with the AllSport GPS an exercise tracking application that tracks exercise activity via GPS.AllSport GPS keeps track of time, speed, calorie burned, and distance traveled during outdoor
workouts such as running, walking, biking and snowboarding. Users can store workouts to monitor progress, view weekly activity logs, map their favorite routes and share activities with friends.
Through the Trimble Outdoors Web site ( http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com), subscribers can also:
- Browse an online library of professional and user-generated trips.
- Upload and recommend routes and customize trips taken by others.
- Download maps in topographic, street and aerial views to their wireless phone.
- Send guided workouts to their phones and "race" against the person who
- originally uploaded the workout.
AllSport GPS is available on select GPS-enabled AT&T mobile phones for a $5.99 monthly subscription. It can be purchased from the AT&T MEdia Mall. New subscribers can sign up for a free seven-day trial.
Incelligence's
mobile info-tainment applications are now available to subscribers of
Fox Mobile Distribution's Jamster and its related
sites. Titles include "Green-Living Guide," "Hip-Hop Dictionary" and
"Mobile Medic," as well as poetry, literature and even a mobile wine
and food guide for help in making wine store purchases.Incelligence titles cover many subject areas including:
- Lifestyle and Relationships
- Health and Nutrition
- Nature and Animals
- Wine and Food
- Humor
- Reference and Education
- Religion
The AP Elections '08 site is only available to U.S. Cellular customers. It is prominently featured at the top of the U.S. Cellular browsers' "News and Weather" home page, ensuring that the latest breaking political developments are easily accessible to U.S. Cellular customers anytime, anywhere.
Thumbplay's tech-savvy "e-lectorate" has clearly thrown its support -- and its purchasing power -- behind Senator Obama. As of 10/28/08, Thumbplay.com confirms that Obama-related content has out-sold McCain-related content by a 9 to 1 margin. The results are based on Obama and McCain related content -- including ringtones, videos and wallpapers -- purchased on Thumbplay.com.
MyNuMo has changed its moniker to PlayScreen (www.PlayScreen.com), to create a new worldwide social entertainment brand.
"PlayScreen is the culmination of our acquisition of advanced social gaming technology and the successful launch of game titles for the iPhone" said William Volk, president and CEO of PlayScreen. "The mobile entertainment market has evolved tremendously during the last year, with the launch of the iPhone and Google Android, making the time right to launch a new brand. The imminent launch of our 2nd round of iPhone native games, titles for the new Google Android T-Mobile G1 phone and other new technology initiatives are well reflected in the PlayScreen name"
FunMobility’s FunScreenz
, an interactive application that lets wireless customers of AT&T Inc.design their own unique mobile wallpapers for their mobile phone screen is now available. The user-friendly application allows consumers to enter text to personalize wallpapers with their names, or to complete sayings such as “I Love BLANK” or “I’d rather be BLANKING.”
FunScreenz has a library of over 10,000 interactive wallpapers that can be deeply personalized by consumers. FunMobility’s rendering engine leverages an open format that lets users choose color, typeface, placement and sizing, or personalized text elements.
“When we engineered FunScreenz, we created an open interactive wallpaper format that puts creative power into the hands of designers,” commented Adam Lavine, FunMobility CEO. “This is why we can bring such a large and compelling library of interactive wallpapers to AT&T subscribers, and why FunScreenz has been such a big consumer hit. Since we launched FunScreenz, we’ve had over 10 million user-generated wallpapers created - and counting!”
To download FunScreenz on your AT&T Wireless phone text the word SCREENZ to shortcode 386 or visit www.att.com/mediamall. FunScreenz costs $3.99 per month for up to five personalized wallpapers.
Hands-On Mobile announced the
availability of the beta version for its Hands-On Mobile Developer
Network The new developer network will
provide a one-step mobilization solution for developers to build,
distribute, and monetize mobile applications across most major
mobile device platforms and operating systems. Starting today,
developers can register at http://developer.handson.comWhile it requires only simple server-side XML development to create rich
mobile applications, HDN is both powerful and flexible enough to serve
the needs of both large media companies and individual developers
seeking to quickly develop, publish and deploy next generation mobile
applications across multiple carriers and handsets. Since applications
developed on HDN work on hundreds of handsets ranging from low-end
feature phones to high-end smartphones, HDN creates extensive mobile
revenue streams for developers and media companies alike.
Hands-On Mobile will also release mixt in the coming weeks -- a new intuitive application discovery and on-deck distribution channel for HDN developers. Through mixt, mobile users are able to organize and aggregate their favorite mobile services and social networking applications, as well as discover a vibrant marketplace of exciting new content from developers.
Marvel Entertainment International announced that it has partnered with Campfire A/S, to adapt Marvel's comic books for mobile devices. Through Campfire's trademark CATOOZ system, Marvel comics will be available as a brand new content for mobile phone users and will feature new interactive technologies to view Marvel's legendary series.
Campfire A/S will transform Marvel's comics into
fully featured mobile entertainment content, enriched with cinematic
sound, effects and animated speech bubbles. Marvel's mobile offering
will initially be available in Scandinavia, Austria, Switzerland and
Germany, and will ultimately be available throughout Europe.
Tribune Media Services (TMS), the content licensing division of
Tribune Company has partnered with Vibes Media to bring
TMS' e catalogue ofditorial content to the mobile
market.
Vibes, a leading provider of interactive text message and mobile content marketing, has converted thousands of pieces of TMS content into a mobile-ready format, with new content published on an on-going basis. The content catalog will be marketed to a broad range of providers in the mobile services and media industries.
Wireless subscribers will have access to the best name-brand editorial and information content through their mobile phones the same week and in some cases the same day that it is published in print and online. Content providers for the mobile catalog feature legendary figures such as Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, Wolfgang Puck, Rick Steves, Arianna Huffington, Linda Black, Henry Kissinger and Carl Hiaasen, among many others. Subscribers can also sign-up for daily alerts, jokes, horoscopes and quotes, as well as other original Vibes created content.
Consumers and businesses rely on a name and number to identify the caller. Automatically matching a name to the incoming telephone number and displaying it on a callerID device or on the phone has been a common feature of landline telephones since 1984. This feature has never been available on wireless phones in the United States. With Screen-it, for the first time wireless consumers will see the name of who is calling them before they answer the call, even if it's an unknown caller.
MetroPCS plans to offer the new Screen-it feature to its customers
in October 2008. Screen-it will be included with select wireless
packages and will be an enhanced option available to add a la carte for
other packages.
ChaCha will provide mobile answers to young voters as well as provide voting, polling and related
information for the November 4 election though a partnership with Rock the Vote.AT&T also has a Rock the Vote platform.
Slifter allows users to: find hot deals and products nearby, create a mobile shopping list packed with favorite products and promotions, and spread the savings around to friends and family.
Slifter is immediately available on all Virgin Mobile USA phones at no additional charge on VirginXL and the mobile Web.
