Alex Kinch

12 MegaPixels is a lot – it doesn’t seem that long ago we were all foaming at the mouth over the Nokia N95 and its then ‘revolutionary’ 5MP camera (with the rather gorgeous Carl Zeiss optics). Only a few years on, and Sony Ericsson’s 12MP Satio is hitting the UK, and is available on 3 [...]

UK-based mobile web experts, bemoko Ltd, have used the bemokoLive mobile development platform to create the mobile website for this year’s Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) which begins today.
Optimised to work with any mobile phone, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival mobile website will be live for the duration of the event and for 12 months [...]

Navigation market leader, Telmap, has used its unique navigation technology and NAVTEQ’s superior global map data, to bring a comprehensive mobile search, mapping and navigation solution for the iPhone, thus enabling mass adoption of mobile navigation. The strength of NAVTEQ lies in its experience as the leading global provider of digital maps, driving a mobile [...]

Samsung Electronics, a leader in consumer electronics and information technology, and Handmark®, a world-leading creator and distributor of mobile applications and services, today announced the launch of a new Global Venture Fund to invest in companies and/or individuals with innovative, market-changing game ideas for next generation Samsung mobile phones. Companies and/or individuals selected will receive [...]

SMS news alert service matchalert launched today, aimed at those dedicated football fans who want to keep up with their team when they’re out and about but have so far been frustrated by SMS services that are inflexible, unmanageable, or simply too expensive.
matchalert’s advantage is that it combines the convenience of SMS alerts with the [...]

A new way to search for data held on your company computers when you are on the road has been launched by UK specialist search company, Simplexo. The solution – Simplexo Mobile – has been developed to enable anyone working out of the office to access vital corporate documentation and databases via their mobile devices [...]

Currently it is prohibitively expensive for independent developers to create and port mobile applications across a wide range of handsets. Developers therefore target only a few devices, seriously limiting their opportunity for revenue. Today, most choose Apple’s iPhone as it has a high market share, a solid SDK and an attractive business model, provided the [...]

Following his hit TV series Meet The Hasselhoffs, one of the world’s most popular television icons is set to make headlines again with the launch of his own iPhone app.
David Hasselhoff, who is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The Most Watched TV Star in the World”, promises to answer all of [...]

Intec, a global provider of business support systems (BSS) solutions, has announced the availability of its new Roaming Solution, designed to help remove the complexity from inter-operator roaming revenue settlement, allowing operators to focus on increasing their own roaming revenues while maintaining complete customer and roaming partner satisfaction.  The solution is fully compliant with GSM [...]

Freedom4, the joint investment between Daisy Group plc and Intel Capital, has been granted a licence variation by Ofcom that enables it to offer mobile wireless broadband services to its customers using its nationwide 3.6GHz spectrum.
Freedom4 has already achieved the world’s first seamless mobile WiMAX handover between base stations operating at two frequencies (2.5GHz and [...]