CALL FOR ACTION: UNAUTHORIZED CELL PHONE BILL CHARGES
Living on a fixed income, Marta Millikan looked to her cell phone bill to trim her budget. She dropped to a less costly plan with T-mobile, but her bill actually increased. She went through her bill line by line and noticed a charge for "premium services."...
SAMSUNG GRAVITY 3 - CITRUS WHITE (T-MOBILE)
The Samsung Gravity 3's full QWERTY keyboard and messaging features are enough to satisfy most heavy communicators, with other advanced features icing the cake. At $50 with a two-year service agreement, the Gravity is a good midlevel option for those who aren't ready to jump into the smartphone arena....
HOW TO: MAKE FREE IPHONE RINGTONES
Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t…...
MOBILE CONTENT CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCED
CHICAGO, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of mobile content providers, including Flycell, Inc., Glomobi, Mobilefunster, Inc., Thumbplay, Inc., WebAMG Holdings, as well as the marketing affiliate Glispa, LLC, and the aggregator Motricity, Inc., have agreed to settle a number of class action lawsuits against them, involving claims that these companies charged wireless subscribers for "mobile ......
RIM SNAPS UP APP STORE INFRASTRUCTURE VENDOR CELLMANIA
Research In Motion has Apple’s App Store in its sight with the acquisition of Cellmania, a company that specializes in infrastructure for mobile marketplaces. Currently, RIM’s app store has about 10,000 items, a significantly lesser number than 65,000 Android apps or more than 225,000 items on Apple’s store. Although RIM didn’t formally announce the transaction, [...]...
THE TWO-TIER INTERNET - FIGHTING FOR CONTROL OF THE WEB'S FUTURE
As data volumes continue to grow, it's clear that the Internet's infrastructure needs upgrading. What's not clear is who is going to pay for it. Web activists fear the development of a two-tier Internet, where corporations have priority and dissenting voices get pushed to the margins....
RIM WIDENS ITS APP WORLD WITH CELLMANIA BUY
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has purchased Cellmania, whose products drive mobile ecosystems for mobile operators, infrastructure providers and content operators. "Cellmania has joined RIM and is bringing their expertise in application storefront development to the BlackBerry platform," Marisa Conway, of RIM's public relations agency Brodeur Partners, told the E-Commerce Times....
RESEARCH IN MOTION BUYS MOBILE STOREFRONT PLATFORM CELLMANIA
It looks like Blackberry developer Research In Motion has made a purchase today: Cellmania , a company that builds and licenses the software that drives many mobile phone stores. According to Cellmania's website, the company is "now part of Research In Motion." Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cellmania's technology powers mobile ecosystems for mobile operators, infrastructure providers and ......
