Mashable: Giiv is a mobile gifting service that delivers gifts in real time in the format of a friendly text message. Giiv.com is fairly simple: You find a gift that you want to give a friend or loved one, and then you enter in his or her mobile number and a note. Giiv.com texts them a URL and a giiv code […]
Give Via Text
Sleep Well
TrendCentral: Possibly the most gentle alarm clock on the market, this bio alarm clock app uses your iPhone’s accelerometer to monitor your sleep patterns. By simply placing your iPhone under your bottom sheet, the Sleep Cycle alarm clock monitors when you’re in your lightest sleep phase, thus making waking up less like a clonk on the head and more like […]
Nokia Money
Trendwatching.com: Nokia Money is a new mobile financial service enabling consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods and services, pay their utility bills, or recharge their prepaid SIM cards. Nokia is building a wide network of Nokia Money agents, where consumers can deposit money, […]
Why Type? Just Swype It
The Mobile Tech Weblog: Swype has announced a new text prediction technology for touch phones in which users simply roll their fingers along the letters of a word on the software QWERTY keyboard of a touch screen phone. So in other words (no pun intended) a user simply slides their finger over the onscreen keyboard in succession and then when […]
DTXTR Translator
Sending text messages on mobile phones is becoming as commonplace as calling your best friend, and it’s all the rage among teens. We know trying to keep up with your teen and the technology they’re using can be daunting – so LG’s DTXTR is here to help you break it down and stay ahead of the curve. Features on the […]
MobME
The Economist: One drunk driver, 32 traffic violations and 15 miscellaneous offences. A daily tally of crimes in Cochin, a city in the Indian state of Kerala, appears on the mobile phone of Sanjay Vijayakumar, the young co-founder of MobME. His firm, which provides “value-added services” for mobile phones, has outfitted the Cochin police with camera-phones. Instead of describing crime-scenes […]
Mobile ATM Finder
Springwise.com: Finding an ATM in an unfamiliar city or neighbourhood can be a real hassle. So it’s no surprise that various applications have been developed for the iPhone and other mobile devices, that use built-in GPS to map the nearest cash machines. ING Wegwijzer, a new application built for the T-Mobile G1 (Google) phone, takes the concept a step further. […]
What’s Your 20?
Location based social networking via cells. Update your facebook with your profile or find your kiddo.
PhoneTag Voicemail Messages
The Mobile Technology Weblog: PhoneTag’s concept is simple: Those of us who would rather skip long, drawn-out voice messages by reading them instead of listening to them can have PhoneTag automatically transcribe voicemail to text and best of all this one works with all major U.S. carriers (including Verizon) and offers up unlimited voicemail storage. PhoneTag’s platform automatically converts voice […]
Pedometer Phone
TechRadar: Japanese mobile phones are very hit and miss – some have fantastic (mostly network-related) services, yet are ugly as sin, while others look great but offer very little else. Now, however, a new category is becoming apparent, as the number of simple-to-use handsets from major manufacturers is increasing, while included functions aimed at their elderly users become more useful […]