Alex Kinch

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 [...]

Link: Netsize Makes Handset Technical Specs Available Via Web API
Mobile messaging aggregator Netsize has launched a new mobile handset technical database.
The service, called mDevices, contains details of handsets, their capabilities, features and functions – and best of all can be accessed remotely in real time via a web-based API.
According to Netsize marketing director Renaud Menerat, [...]

If you’ve ever thought of developing an app for the Nokia E-series smart phone handset range but have been put off by how complicated Symbian coding is, or don’t have the budget to develop a proof of concept, it might be worth checking out SmartApps – a new development environment just released by enterprise software [...]

Mobile entertainment company ROK have announced today they’ve acquired data optimisation and compression specialists Blubox Software.
Commenting on the acquisition, Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman of ROK said “Blubox have created the most powerful, user-friendly and original compression technologies for the management of digital imagery and data files that we have yet seen and, with our core interest [...]

There’s been a few postings recently on here about Nuance, who are a leader in the speech recognition arena. Dave at Schwartz PR has just been in touch with the rather hot piece of news that Nuance has just bought VoiceSignal, another company in the same arena.
According to Nuance’s chairman and CEO, Paul Ricci:
“Today, more than [...]

Link: Poll: Majority Would Buy Google Or Yahoo-Branded Mobile Device – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek
Interesting figures here, courtesy of a study by The Equs Group, which shows how strong the Google and Yahoo brands are when it comes to associating them with mobile devices.
A recent study by The Equs Group shows that 55.5% of U.S. consumers [...]