Alex Kinch

Nottingham-based MoZoop think they’ve found the reason why most people don’t upgrade their mobiles very often – the thought of losing all your contacts. To combat this, they’ve launched a new contact transfer service.
The free online service allows you to ‘zoop’ your contacts from your old handset and ‘zoop’ them to a new one. It [...]

Clickatell, the world’s leading global messaging company, today announced that Clickatell’s SMS messaging and gateway services will be used by mFoundry to enable Text Banking message delivery for mFoundry’s three-mode mBanking product.

Mobile operator Orange have unveiled their fifth Digital Media Index – and revealed dongle data usage has increased by 4,125% in the past twelve months.

Annual revenues from value-added services upsold through downloaded apps are expected to exceed $14bn by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

Spb Mobile Shell, the next-generation Windows mobile user interface, is now available in a new 3.0 version.
The software, which according to Handago yardstick was the world’s number one bestselling application of 2008 among all mobile platforms, gives users the ability to switch between ‘work’ and ‘play’ desktop,  integration of picture contacts with Facebook, account-sensitive email [...]

Clever multi-platform IM client/service Palringo has been nominated in the Best Use of GPS or Location Technology category in the 13th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the “internet’s highest honour” by the New York Times, the Webby Awards is the leading international award honouring excellence on the Internet.
“Webby nominees set the standard for innovation and [...]

Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it’s only natural that many of them will be using their gadgets to help them enrich their spiritual life as well. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a [...]

Things seem to come in two’s lately – hot on the heels of RIM’s launch of the BlackBerry app store, Microsoft have done a bit of a ‘me too’ press blitz to remind everyone they’ve got something similar in the pipeline.
Although Windows Marketplace for Mobile won’t hit the streets until later this year, that’s not [...]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) have just launched their new app store for the device – rather ingeniously called ‘BlackBerry App World’. Available immediately to BlackBerry users in the UK, US and Canada – with more countries to follow – App World aims to offer broad mix of personal and business applications for users [...]

So many social networking services, so many apps – and only so much your poor mobile (and brain) can handle at once if you want access to all of them on the move. However, this might be about to change if Yahoo! have their way.
The Yahoo! OneConnect app, which is expected to launch in the [...]