O-Sync: Recovering your mobile contacts automatically and seamlessly into your phone* is a breeze with O-Sync’s Free Over-the-air Contact Synchronization service. O-Sync interplays between the Web and your phone wirelessly, enabling you to backup and perform synchronization of your phone’s mobile contact database, anytime anywhere, without cables. That’s not all, Hot Link with your mobile contacts by inviting them into […]

Mobile Digest: It might seem odd in an age of 3G handsets offering video calling, music playback and even TV, but Vodafone is getting back to basics. Announced on Friday were the first pair of mobiles in its range of handsets titled Vodafone Simply. Made in France by Sagem, the new phones (the VS1, a silver, stylish handset, and the […]

Textually.org: French Wireless operator Orange has just launched an “SMS mobile coaching service” to help students study for their Baccalauréat exam. The m-coaching aims to motivate, inform and help the students to be better organized. Students needs to sign up online and define his/her profile by answering several questions such as which Bac section they are in, and their priorities… […]

USATODAY.com: Ferney Zantello uses his cell phone for a lot more than just talking. With his tiny Sanyo SCP-7300 he can surf the Internet, take pictures of his wife and kids, zap them wirelessly back to the family and pick up quick text messages from his wife through the day. “Most people my age I know only use phones for […]

Yenra: An innovative cell phone service offers live interpretation, concierge assistance, and help services with one touch of a keypad. 1TouchConnect is the first international telecommunications provider to combine convenient local and international calling with traveler assistance. “We created 1TouchConnect to bring added comfort, convenience and security to vacationers and businesspeople who are once again traveling in record-breaking numbers,” says […]

PicturePhoning.com: MobuzzTV is mobile video entertainment tailor made for cellphones, a channel which broadcasts “daily visual snacks to the content curious generation”. Its available through (European) operators or by downloading online. See how to page. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s cheeky, it’s irreverant. It’s fabulous. It’s exactly what mobile entertainment should be. It’s about art, it’s about tech, it’s about […]

BusinessWeek: A wireless phone’s main function is converting human speech into digital signals and back again. So why not harness handsets’ speech-processing ability to solve a problem nearly everyone encounters when using cell phones for e-mail or other data applications? I’m referring to the difficulty of entering text on a dial pad, which speech recognition can remedy. Manufacturers are finally […]

The Mobile Technology Weblog: Mobile TV is going to be a gold mine and errr…bigger than a big thing on Planet Big, if we’re to believe a new report by ABI Research. This will surely have mobile operators celebrating in the streets and and writing out Purchase Orders to buy copies of the report telling them how clever and successful […]

Rediff.com: All you need to charge your mobile is — air! Students at the Department of Industrial Design at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi have attached a turbine with a mobile phone that helps charge it even when the user is travelling, Head of the Department Professor Lalit Kumar Das told PTI. “The electricity generated by the turbine when moved […]

Netimperative: O2 has sealed a deal with Kodak to offer online photo services to the mobile operator’s customers through a jointly branded service. The O2 and Kodak Mobile Service will allow consumers to store, share, print and personalise pictures and videos directly from their mobile phone. The service, which goes live in March, allows consumers with MMS or WAP enabled […]