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MapQuest Is Coming to a Cell Phone Near You ...

April 12, 2006

How about getting MapQuest on your cell phone when you're lost and won't ask anybody for directions?

Seems AOL is planning MapQuest Navigator, a mobile service in partnership with Telmap that will enable drivers and pedestrians to access GPS, turn-by-turn and voice-guided directions on their cellular phones. Launch date -- later this year.

According to the company, in addition to audible directions, the service will offer various features ranging from print-quality color maps (are cell phone printers coming soon?) to directions that factor in time and tolls.

Posted in Mobile Phones

Simultaneous WiFi, EVDO, Bluetooth, GSM, VoIP on a cell phone

April 11, 2006

Is simultaneous WiFi, EVDO, Bluetooth, GSM, VoIP on a cell phone just a pipe dream? One of the problems with cellphones today which currently support WiFi, Bluetooth, broadband data (e.g. EVDO), and a cellular wireless voice standard (3G, CDMA, GSM, etc.) is that today's cell phone devices typically only allow either the voice transmission or the data transmission to work, but not both at the same time.

For instance, Sprint's PPC-6700 Windows Mobile 5.0 device allows WiFi and EVDO (data transmission) to be active simultaneously, however if your phone rings (voice transmission), you drop the data transmission. It's one or the other.

Posted in GPS, Mobile Phones, VoIP, Wireless

Disney Goes Mobile (Phones That Is)

April 7, 2006

Much chatter about Disney's announcement to enter the mobile phone service this week.

Targeted at 10- to 15-year-olds, Disney Mobile will be carried by Sprint Nextel -- a June launch is planned. Interesting that technology will enable parents to track whereabouts of their kids via GPS -- probably the last thing that these kids want on their cell phones.

How much longer before we find cell phones in our cereal boxes?

Posted in Mobile Phones

Krusell's on the Case

April 7, 2006

Mobile phone cases and PDA cases are big business. After youâve dropped a few bucks on these gadgets, you need to protect them from scratches, drops and other potential end-of-life occurrences.

You may remember Iâve just moved from a Treo 600 to a Treo 650, but it seems that a lot companies that used to make cases for Palm products have dropped out of this space race.

After a lot research, I opted for a case from Krusell â the Horizontic with Multidap.

Posted in Mobile Phones

VoIP on Treo 650 and Motorola ROKR, SLVR, and RAZR

April 7, 2006

EQO Communications, developer of presence-enabled calling and instant messaging solutions and services, today announced EQO Mobile for Skype on the popular Palm TREO 650 and Motorola ROKR, SLVR, and RAZR handsets. EQO actually has been calling me for the past week to try and give me the news, but I've been preparing for a major upgrade of Movable Type from 2.661 to 3.2, so I neglected to call them back. Rich Tehrani told me their news this morning, so I figured the news was worth sharing. I was one of the first to discuss EQO back in February in a blog post worth checking out.

The announcement was made at the CTIA Wireless 2006 conference, and it brings the number of EQO-supported handset models to more than 45, including some of the most popular devices from Nokia, Motorola, Palm, and Sony-Ericsson.

EQO uses a combination of a phone-resident J2ME client and a presence-enabled Voice-over-IP (VoIP) signaling network to bridge online identity, VoIP calling, and Instant Messaging services to more than 200 million J2ME-capable mobile phone handsets already in use worldwide.

Posted in Mobile Phones, Skype, Wireless

What Do You Get a Girl Who Has Everything?

April 6, 2006

I remember when I was a kid the big thing was to get a stereo in your room and -- if you were really lucky -- your own phone. Now, by âyour own phone,â I mean a telephone that was then called an extension phone â it had the same number as your parentsâ number. (Forget about getting your own phone number â¦)

Today, my kids have enough communications devices that getting their own phone in their rooms doesnât make any sense â theyâve got cell phones, text messaging, email, instant messaging on multiple devices.

Posted in Mobile Phones

Microsoft sells 500,000 Windows Mobile Phones

April 5, 2006

According to the NY Times, Microsoft has won a huge order for their Windows Mobile software - 500,000 handsets to be precise. Is this another nail in the coffin for Blackberry? Certainly seems that way. According to the NY Times article, "Microsoft expects to increase its mobile unit's sales to $1 billion in one to three years, from $337 million last year, and break the dominance of the Research In Motion BlackBerry wireless e-mail device.

Posted in Microsoft, Mobile Phones, Wireless

BridgePort Networks shows off Dual-mode capability

April 5, 2006

BridgePort Networks
is making some interesting announcments at the CTIA Wireless show. Most importantly they are demonstrating how they leverages SIP and IMS to demonstrate seamless handover based on 'VCC' technical requirements. If you're not familiar with IMS or even if you are, you should subscribe to TMC's newest publication, IMS Magazine which covers IMS exclusively. IMS is going to be a huge driver of VoIP and mobile applications in the next couple of years.

Also at the CTIA show they are introducting a USB MobileSTICK product that turns a laptop into a mobile phone.

Posted in Mobile Phones, VoIP, Wireless

WWE Coming To Your Mobile Phones -- Splat!

March 30, 2006

If youâre a fan of the World Wrestling Entertainment, then listen up â âThe WWE Mobile Alert" package is coming your way ...

(Before that, check out the visual below for some of the good work that the WWE does in the community ...)

For $3.99 per month, WWE fans will be able to stay connected through alerts delivered directly to their mobile phones through SMS.

Posted in Mobile Phones

Call USRobotics Tech Support using Skype

March 27, 2006

Some pretty cool news from USRobotics that lets you use Skype to directly call their Customer Support infrastructure. This saves USRobotics the cost of the toll-free number and it enables customers to get into the support queue much easier. Considering the "newness" factor of web call through, most call centers will assign a higher priority to inbound VoIP calls or IM sessions. So if you are impatient and want to skip lengthy on-hold times, using Skype could be the answer.

It will be interesting to see if/when a big boy like Microsoft offers web call through for their tech support.

Posted in Call Center and CRM, Microsoft, Mobile Phones, VoIP

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