Tag: Mobile
Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a 'Google phone' which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are.
The collaboration between two of the most powerful brands in technology is seen as a potential catalyst for making internet use of mobile phones as natural as on desktop computers and laptops.
Executives from Orange flew to Silicon Valley in California for a meeting at Google's headquarters, or 'Googleplex', to hold...
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Chad Hurley, chief executive and co-founder of YouTube, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company.
Hurley said: "Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device. It's going to be a huge market, especially for the video mindset we're dealing with. It's a natural transition."
Hurley was speaking at the OgilvyOne Digital Summit in New York in one of his first public engagements since the announcement last month that internet search leader Google is to...
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Promptu, a voice recognition company focused on mobile search, has raised additional $11.6 million round of funding.
The round was led by Steelpoint Capital Partners and included participation by other current investors, including Lauder Partners.
The Menlo Park company has been looking for a strategy for some time now. A year ago, it was focused on letting you search for cable TV programs, and it had raised $22 million to do that.
Promptu’s technology lets people use their voice to find and purchase content on mobile phones. People...
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For carriers, phone vendors and for blogging service providers, camera phones are the biggest opportunity to make money.
Six Apart’s TypePad Mobile has a good shot at it. It is the rebranded version of SplashBlog, a product that came via the Splash Data acqusition back in March 2006. TypePad Mobile works on Palm Treo, Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 phones. Though it is not such a large selection, it is still covers a decent number of phones and works well with TypePad.
Discount mobile carrier easyMobile failed after less than nine months in the Netherlands, but the low-cost segment in Europe is still very much alive, analysts said on Friday.
EasyMobile, which is backed by easyJet entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou and launched in the Netherlands and Germany in the fourth quarter 2005 and in Britain in March that year, said on Thursday it would end its Dutch service on Aug. 6 because it did not attract sufficient customers.
EasyMobile had around 33,000 mobile customers in total in the three countries in...
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