Happy Halloween!

It’s that tenacious time of the year where ghostly ghouls, wicked witches and malicious monsters come out to play.

Make sure you keep a few special treats near the door to pacify the hordes or you may just get tricked instead.

Oh and you never know who may turn up on your doorstep to trick or treat…….

2 contestants from our neighbourhood’s Halloween competition last year.
(If you see any great costumes then send us a picture! shane@fring.com)

fring introduces Wi-Fi WISPr

With WISPr, fringsters can now seamlessly roam within Wi-Fi networks, even in uncharted Wi-Fi territory!

Since we launched auto-roaming between 3G and Wi-Fi back in September, we’ve been busy whispering between ourselves and working on new ways to further smooth the transition for automatic roaming without user involvement. With WISPr, fring now recognizes any Wi-Fi network you have logged into before, even if you’ve never been to that particular hotspot. For instance, if you are a Cloud member and have first logged into fring at a café in Piccadilly Circus, fring will automatically recognize and log you into all other Cloud networks anywhere in the world as soon as you enter their hotspot zones. This can happen automatically without any manual involvement on your part, which is convenient and particularly valuable if you have an unlimited usage plan with a Wi-Fi provider.

WISPr means you automatically have the best call quality and biggest cost savings over Wi-Fi whenever in range of any Wi-Fi network you have previously logged into. Just like the current fring auto-roaming client, automatic handover between specific Wi-Fi hotspots within a recognized Wi-Fi network is activated in idle mode and not during a call.

Right now fring only WISPs on Symbian 9.1 phones but we’ll keep the rest of you posted on developments! See our original post for more info on fring auto-roaming or how to activate it.

To activate fring auto-roaming or WISPr (if you are already auto-roaming), just go to options > settings > connection manager > search for WLAN. Choose a Wi-Fi network and enter your credentials.

So now, simply enter the zone and you’re online!

Please keep us posted on your WISPr experience!

Google updates mobile GMail application to ver 1.5!

Google has updated their mobile GMail Java application to version 1.5 for their glorious GMail service.

The new features of the applications are,

• it runs much faster
• it uses less mobile data traffic
• Option to attach a “Sent from Gmail for mobile” footer to your outgoing messages
• View the full details of your GMail contacts
• Save a message you’re drafting to “Finish Later”

Point your Mobile web browser at http://gmail.com/app and download the updated application now!

fringing away with Twitter

One of the great things you can use fring for is Twitter. Twitter is a global conversation of people sending in their short text messages of what they are doing right at that moment. Twitter is a great way to keep up to date with what your friends, family and business associates are doing wherever they may be on the globe.

A lot of business people also use Twitter in their work environments especially those that are spread over multi sites or have international offices. The instant access to the Twitter streams, whether on your PC or your via your mobile, means you are tapped into the source wherever you are and when ever you want to. As one of my friends put it, “you are mainlined into the world’s thoughts”.

The great thing about using fring is that you can jump into this tantalising tittering of Twitters and be part of the communication revolution real time.

So people who use Twitter are finding out that it can be all things to all people as it is a conversation, a bulletin board, a blog, a dating service, a news source, a friend finder………

Want in? Then head over to Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ and sign up for an account then plug your sign-in details into fring.

Here’s a video we put together showing how it works….
http://www.youtube.com/v/WdQicVM2CfU

Twitter on fring can be a bit infectious, so consider yourself warned!