Hey fringsters, fring has just been featured on one of the official Nokia sites. This is great news for everyone on the fring team, the late nights of blood, sweat and tears are paying off yippi

If you happen to be in the mood for a little channel hopping, why not pop over to Nokia’s Nseries site and see the feature for yourself, you could then even leave a comment and let Nokia know what you think of fring, your favorite mobile community.

Fraser MacInnes is a writer for the mobile phone blog Pocket Picks and it’s sister mobile gaming site Pocket Gamer. This week he asks: Is fring the missing link for mobile online storage services?

Hey guys, ever wonder which mobile apps work best on your Nokia N95 handset? We recently came across a list of the 25 best applications for Nokia N95 handsets and thought we’d share the list with everyone, the fact that fring is on the top of the list makes it so much better to share

For many people the SMS service died a speedy death after the invention of mobile IM applications, but is the service actually dead?

According to a recent report more than 2 Trillion (2 000 000 000 000) SMS’s will be sent globally this year with an estimated $65-75 billion in revenue foreseen from this market.

Although numbers are extremely high, revenue is seen dropping because of market saturation and healthy competition between network providers. The Asia-Pacific region currently accounts for most of the new traffic.

Its going to be interesting watching this space in the next few years.

Every day more than 500 million people access the internet at cybercafes worldwide. For most of these people this is the only PC they will ever use. Data storage costs are extremely high for most of us and lets face it having to carry around DVD’s, CD’s and memory sticks gets frustrating and annoying to say the least.

Now a Luxembourg-based startup is giving us access to the unheard of “unlimited online storage”.

Founded by Stefan Surzycki “Jooce” offers us the functionality we would normally get from a personal computer, the difference is that we do not need to own a PC. The “Jooce desktop” can be accessed in 19 different languages from any internet connected PC, thus allowing us to access files, e-mail’s, instant messaging, storage and other applications via the internet from any location on earth.

During its first week of operation Jooce saw 60, 000 sign-ups, not only does it have the user numbers behind it, Jooce is also backed by Mangrove VC, the same firm that provided initial funding to Skype and with free unlimited data storage Jooce certainly looks like the best horse to back.

fringsters if you are in desperate need of some free, safe and easy to use parking for your data then this is a great place to start. Go get your free account today.

For those of us who love statistics, the fring team just received these stats from Jooce:

According to Stefan Surzycki “Jooce now clocks over 300, 000 logins per month, sends over 500, 000 Instant Messages per month and currently stores more than 1.2 Million files on the system,” not bad for a service that has only been running for a little over 2 months now.

Hey fringsters, look out for fring at this years eComm 2008 conference in Silicon valley. The conference takes place in a few days time (March 12-14). If you plan to attend, book your spot now as time is fast running out, also don’t forget we have a discount coupon for you - just enter the discount code “fringin08″ when booking and you’ll get a 15% discount.

See you there

Hey guys, ever wished you could stream or download really great video content like the latest fring videos directly to your mobile handset? The good news is that this type of service is already working and millions are using it now daily.

mywaves.com recently announced that their service has clocked more than 18 Million users worldwide and “is the fastest-growing mobile video destination for consumers, attracting more than 5 million unique visitors monthly to its free mobile video service. Consumers can browse through nearly 400,000 channels of premium, private and user-generated videos and have their favorites automatically updated and delivered to their phones. Most users tune in to watch mywaves video weekly with average viewing times of 24 minutes per session. The service works globally across all 3G, EDGE, BREW and EV-DO carriers as well as most video-capable mobile phones, including Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian and RIM based phones. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., mywaves is led by a team from Yahoo!, Napster, Danger, Palm and TiVo. The company is funded by venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures.”

fringsters, it’s time to joined the revolution. Get your free version of mywaves here.

Starting in New York City on September 18th 2007, Alex Boylan and Zsolt Luka started on the journey of a lifetime.

Its been a long ride covering more than 40 000 miles and after just over 160 day they have successfully managed to circle the globe for free using nothing but the hospitality shown by fans from around the world. The guys today arrived safely back in New York City, bring to an end the 6 month trip around the world.

During this amazing journey Alex and Zsolt made hundreds of new friends, saw amazing places and learned some exciting new things.

The guys even went so far as to test out some great new mobile technology. After a stop over in South Africa the guys implemented the newly launched fringME! widget onto their website. A Nokia N95 was sponsored by fring and away they went. Although life on the road was fast and furious and mobile internet connections somewhat slow and sometimes outright junk. The guys did not despair and made the regular effort to keep trying despite the sometimes poor experience, this early stage beta testing helped fring pave the way for revolutions in future technologies and for this the fring team would like to thank them.

Thank you and Welcome home guys!!

Scientists in the US have developed microfibre using nanowires that can be used in the clothing industry, when worn by a person the fabric can generate enough energy to power a cellphone or iPod.

According to Zhong Lin Wang, roughly “80 milliwatts per square meter” of fabric is generated. The only big hurdle at the moment is that the nanowires do not like water and currently the team is looking for a solution so that the fabric can we washed.

Nanowire technology is really heating things up in the mobile industry and I personally can’t wait for the day when I can charge my fring handset via my t-shirt.

A nasty little worm known only as the “SymbianOS Worm” has been infecting handsets world wide. The virus which runs on Symbian S60 devices attaches itself to your contact list and mails itself out to all your contacts.

fringsters be warned, this can seriously drain your airtime balance. The virus sends out a MMS which contains either of the following files Beauty.jpg, Sex.mp3 or Loce.rm. Lets face it, if where dumb enough to open sex.mp3 then you deserved to be zapped. If you recently received such a file don’t open it, the virus can easily be deleted by simply deleting the MMS, however open it and your contacts and phone bill are doomed.

If it’s too late and you need serious help this may be the best place: smobile systems

Thanks to our Spanish Blogger for this update.