India’s based software firm AJ Square Consultancy is said to unleash its very own application
called Red Cherry that pretty much provides the same service as that of RIM’s BlackBerry. It’ll fetche corporate e-mails on your mobiles. Red Cherry aims to grow into the huge market that BlackBerry holds currently. The company seems to be targeting a 2 million user base by the end of this year. Aggressive pricing is going to be the key of its strategy inorder to acheive their target.
The service supports popular corporate accounts as well as the free services like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and Rediffmail and corporate e-mail accounts (MS exchange and IBM Lotus servers) on a mobile handset. The service is also readying its services for Singapore and the European markets.
While Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer teased the world with the Zune HD at “The Things Digital Conference” in San Diego. Few were able to get a sneak peak but Gizmodo managed to even get a hands on with the prototype. Here is a Hands-On video of the Zune HD that will be released later this year around the time of September.
Click here to read what Gizmodo’s Brian Lam had to say on playing around with the Zune HD.
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Here is a demo video below. If you are a developer head over to the following link to learn more about Google Wave.
Microsoft’s My Phone service was officially showed at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona on Feb. 17. Finally its now available for consumers; codenamed SkyBox - now My Phone service is made open to public.
Microsoft designed My Phone service specifically for Windows Mobile-based devices. At the moment, Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 based phones would be able to use My Phone service and all new releases of Windows Mobile Operating will also be supported.
My Phone service is similar to Apple’s MobileMe service that allows backup and mobile synchronization of contacts, photos, videos, and other stuff to secured web accounts on cloud servers. My Phone account offers 200MB storage space for saving Windows Mobile phone content such as Contacts, SMS, Calendar, photos and videos. With Windows Live is installed on phone, My Phone will sync all the Windows Live contacts to Windows Live website. In case the user loses phone or decided to switch to a new Windows Mobile device, the backed up content can be restored by simple sync.
Microsoft offers My Phone in beta stage there are chances of data loss. Let’s hope that My Phone doesn’t go through hiccups like how Apple’s MobileMe had to. It should be noted that Google also offers a similar service for syncing contacts called Google Contact Sync. Soon, we may have Google jumping into service of offer mobile data backup to cloud servers too.
Starting in New York City on September 18th 2007, Alex Boylan and Zsolt Luka started on the journey of a lifetime.
“Covering 159 days, 16 countries, 4 continents, and 45,000 miles, Around the World For Free follows Alex’s trek from New York City to the untouched lands of Dominica. From a deportation in India right into a war zone in Kenya, from the scorching deserts of Chile to the destitute poverty of Cambodia and beyond.”
During this amazing journey Alex and Zsolt made hundreds of new friends, saw amazing places and got to play with some exciting new technology.
After a stop over in South Africa the guys implemented the then newly launched fringME! widget onto their website. A Nokia N95 was provided 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 some difficulties they ran into, 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.
Around the World for free has now been compiled into an 11hour TV series and is currently airing on WGN America. We just received an exclusive fringy extract from episode 6 entitled ‘South African Kaleidoscope’ The full version of episode 6 will air on Monday evening 18/5/2009 at 9EST/9PST on WGN America.
The guys have also recently taken social media to the next level by implemented a live twitter feed during the show. During each episode of Around the world for free, followers of the twitter group can now interact with both Alex and Zsolt and get exclusive behind the scenes info during the show.
“IIR’s Mobile Advertising 2009 is the premier event for thought leaders and decision makers in the mobile marketing and advertising industry. The event - which this year takes place in Amsterdam from 12-14 May - will bring together advertising agencies, media planners and the mobile value chain to drive growth and revenues from this nascent market.”
Boaz Zilberman, Chief Architect and co-founder at fring will be on day 2 of the event to discuss the topic of“Overcoming the challenges of delivering successful creative mobile campaigns”
We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam 12-14 May.
Watch the story behind the making of the Nokia N97. It’s a fascinating one that gives a real insight of what goes into to forging a flagship device from scratch.
In March this year, BlackBerry went 3G via BSNL and soon followed by MTNL-Delhi. Now subscribers in Mumbai too will be able to avail BlackBerry services via MTNL - but without the 3G bit for the moment.
MTNL and Research In Motion (RIM) have today introduced the BlackBerry solution for MTNL customers in Mumbai. Under this collaboration, MTNL will offer the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service, as well as a bunch of smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 8310 and BlackBerry 8700g.
The BlackBerry handsets are priced as the following: BlackBerry Bold 9000 at Rs. 34,000; BlackBerry Curve at Rs. 24,000; Blackberry 8700G at Rs. 14,000
We’ve just closed our third significant round of funding. We’re looking forward to using this capital investment to continue making fring more accessible and more compelling for our millions of fringsters in just about every country worldwide, and for many more users who will soon be able to join us communicating, sharing and interacting with their friends and all their favorite online communities and services via fring on their mobile phones.
Over the coming months you’ll see this vision realized through fring compatibility with more mobile environments, more internet communities taken mobile via fring as add-ons contributed by developers worldwide, great new social features and a steady stream of usability improvements reflecting what you, our users, have told us you want.
So without further ado, cheers to new opportunities for fring, our community of fringsters and partners, and mobile users worldwide who via fring will join the rest of us who have already shifted our social nexus to our mobile devices.
fring™, a free mobile internet service & community , that enables its users to talk, chat & interact with other fringsters™ and their online communities, from their mobile phones.
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