uVme - takes gaming and social networking to a new level

uVme currently in beta stage is a unique new online business covering three of the most exciting developments on the internet: Online games, social networking, and Social Marketing. This new market is said to be growing four times faster than the Internet. Your local fring Blogger was invited to beta test a few of the uVme games and I can tell you that this is sure to take the world by storm, currently there are more than 10000 testers and the number grows daily.

If internet gaming is your thing and you would like to turn your passion into a paying business then join uVme today.

After joining pop me and email with your name, surname and email addy and I will invite you to be one of the beta testers. I only have 3 invites per week so snooze and you loose.

GoogleTalks your language and fring delivers

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Ok, So I don’t really speak Russian, but thanks to GoogleTalk and the wonders of modern technology I can now have a conversation with someone who has never spoken a word of English in his life using GoogleTalk and a great new translation bot that works through GoogleTalk. The translation bot automatically translates between various languages and sends them via IM. “For those not familiar with bots, a (ro)bot is a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and provides some fun or useful functionality.” GoogleTalk Blog

The good news for fringsters is that you can now turn your mobile phone into a mobile pocket translator. This is especially useful when traveling.

If you want to try this great new service, just add [ en2fr@bot.talk.google.com ] as a friend in Google Talk and send it a message to translate from English to French.

For additional languages use “[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com” the short codes are as follows: ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en. So, for French to German translation, talk to fr2de@bot.talk.google.com.

For further info visit this link.

Welcome to the future!

The Crunchies 2007 award - You decide who wins!

fringsters the time has come for you to decide who deserves the title as best mobile start up for the year 2007. fring has been nominated in the Best mobile start-up category and we now need your vote.

“The 2007 Crunchies is the first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.

The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch.” The Crunchies. What makes this award different from the rest is that the internet community (Thats YOU!) is invited to choose who wins.

May the best fring win!

Voting ends January 10th 2008, let your voice be heard Vote for fring today!

How to autoroam between 3G and WiFi

fring welcomes Yahoo!™ & AIM® in time for the holidays

In response to a huge demand from our users, fring just added Yahoo!™ and AOL’s AIM® instant messengers,

This means fring now supports Skype, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL’s AIM. It also means that there is no better way of staying in touch with all your online buddies than with fring on your mobile!

To make life easier for you, We’ve enabled Yahoo!™ and AIM® on our servers, there is therefore no need to download fring again, all you need to do is click options> settings> services select Yahoo!™ or AIM® and add your service user name and password.

Stay tuned for some exciting new services coming soon..

NOTE: Yahoo! & AIM are currently only available for Symbian and UIQ handsets; voice calls are not yet enabled.

fring adds N81,N82,N95 8Gig handsets; WISPr & history for UIQ

Two months ago we brought you WISPr for Symbian handsets.

We promised that WISPr support was soon to follow for UIQ handsets and for all those waiting for support, wait no more - WISPr for UIQ has arrived!!

For those of you who missed the last post: With WISPr, fringsters can seamlessly roam within Wi-Fi networks, even in uncharted Wi-Fi territory!

The other great thing about WISPr is that fring can now be used to enable smoother and quicker mobile web browsing, as your login credentials, once previously entered, will be stored inside your browser. Simply start fring, enter a Wi-Fi zone, launch your mobile browser, and you’re online!

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.

Who can auto-roam with fring? fring now auto-roams on supported Symbian 9.1 & 9.2 and UIQ devices including some new additions so download or upgrade to this auto-roaming version now.

Along with this update comes the support of a few extra handsets.
fring welcomes Nokia N81, 82 and N95 8Gig to the fring party.

This news is so hot the phones are not yet on the download list (yet) but users can choose any other symbian 9 handset (N95 for example) and they’ll get the right version.

Symbian 9.1 & 9.2 users will also be happy to know that fring has been working hard to iron out bugs and they have now released V3.24.16, Get it while its hot!

fring receives Joiku 2007 prime quality award

fring has been awarded the Joiku 2007 prime quality award. This recognition is awarded to a few carefully selected partners of the Joikusoft software distribution channel. The base criterion for the award includes premium quality software in terms of user ratings, ease of use, feature richness, and market demand in terms of Joiku.com user downloads.

But what is Joiku you may ask?
Joiku.com is an internet based community focusing on high quality, free mobile software for any mobile device. Joiku’s mission is to enable downloads of Prime-quality mobile software for free, and in an extremely easy fashion.

“A few of the leading mobile primeware brands already inside the Joiku website; including Wayfinder, Opera, Google, Fon, fring, Spodtronic, Symella, Symtorrent and more.” letsgomobile.org

So in the words of the guys at Joiku: “Let your Joiku begin”

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fring improves voice quality

With many people phoning their loved ones at this time of year, fring has got great news for fringsters in South Africa.

To improve voice quality, we have just installed the first local fring servers in South Africa. The locally hosted server farms will vastly improve voice quality and latency when making fring calls.

Hear the difference - fring a friend today!