Truphone is a mobile-focused telephony company that operates on pretty much every mobile platform. In other words, Truphone lets you make very inexpensive calls on your mobile by using the Internet to route the calls. Over Thanksgiving, the UK based company offered free calling and had a great response. To carry on the holiday cheer,…
There was a huge shift over the weekend in the mobile blogosphere.’a0 After years and years of obsession with Apple’s iPhone, the blogs over the weekend went crazy in discussion talking about a new Android phone.’a0 Even though there are 10 or so Android phones on the market, the ‘Google Phone’ has captured the attention…
Phishing Alert – Please Take Notice Early this morning, I received an email from a high school friend of mine. The person, who I speak to every 3-4 months, was supposedly in London and her bag had been stolen. Thankfully, I’m buddies with this person on Facebook, and I know because of her status messages…
Readers of this blog know that I talk about the United States’ mobile market quite a bit. It’s a funny market, to me, because we only have 4 major national carriers who control pretty much the entire industry. Sure, there are regional phone companies who service small parts of America, but the “Big 4” rule…
The Motorola Droid is one of Motorola’s latest Android handsets. Here in the United States, the Droid has been selling very well. In fact, according to Admob (a mobile ad firm), their numbers show that Droid is generating about 50% of all Android mobile web traffic – pointed to some amazing sales figures for Motorola…
Hot off the press from Le Web conference in Paris comes the news that Myspace has just launched a range of realtime APIs offering developers access to huge amounts of streaming social information. The best part of the story is that OneRiot is one of the launch partners, meaning that whenever Myspace users update their…
This week the BFI Southbank in London played host to the first ever Heroes of the Mobile Screen, a one-day conference organised by the guys behind Mobile Monday London, Swedish Beers and various other events. The format was pretty straight forward, short keynote speeches mixed with panel discussions and most of the time people people…
Google today announced some interesting new features with their mobile search that include voice search with location-based results, great integration with QR barcodes (which we love!) and an augmented reality search based on your location called ’93Google Goggles’94.’a0 Separately, Google announced their entrance into the real-time search market on the desktop web. Google’s added attention…
After releasing our OneRiot integration and our Android App, you’d think our engineers would be tired and ready to rest on the laurels for a bit.’a0 Well, at Taptu, we must have amped up the coffee because these fine folks have been hard at work working on refining Taptu.com. With a new release of our…
Last month, Motorola and Verizon Wireless (in the United States) launched the Droid.’a0 This new handset runs the 2.0 version of the Android OS and has some very interesting hardware features.’a0 This attractive piece of kit includes: A capacitive touch screen display Full slide-out QWERTY keyboard Android 2.0, featuring Google Maps with navigation (much like…