Convergence On A Whole New Level
January 19th, 2006
Meet the mobile phone/mp3 player/credit card/car keys.
By Yanko Design
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Posts filed under 'Wireless'
Top Mobile Search Categories
January 18th, 2006
Jumptap is a company that specializes in mobile search, a topic of increasing importance to operators who see more and more users accesing the web from their cell phones. Here are the top search categories (out of 100) for the month of December 2005 as revealed by their service.
• 27% Categories. Top 3 terms searched: Christmas, Hockey, WWE.
• 22% Adult. Top 3 terms searched: Sex, Porn, Girls.
• 20% Artist Name. Top 3 terms searched: Eminem, 50 Cent, Madonna.
• 14% Game. Top 3 terms searched: Tetris, Poker, Snake.
• 9% Music Genre. Top 3 terms searched: Country, Themes, Reggae.
• 5% Music Title. Top 3 terms searched: My Humps, Jingle Bell, Gold Digger.
• 3% Website Names. Top 3 terms searched: Google, MSN, Yahoo.
WWE (Worldwide Wresting Entertainment), Snake 
…Reggae! These I would have never guessed even though I like reggae. The service also revealed that some people are willing to input really long searches when looking for ringtones. They type in lines of the song they want. Read more about it here.
From dBusinessNews
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Top 10 Ringtones for 2005
January 17th, 2006
50 Cent’s ‘Candy Shop’ was the biggest selling Polyphonic Ringtone
in the USA in 2005.
Alright fiddy!
Here is the list.
From Undercover.
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Bluetooth Posters
January 17th, 2006
FourDocs is a series of posters on the London Underground that feature downloadable content in the form of videos. These videos are created by users and posted to a website. London Underground commuters can then download the videos from the bluetooth enabled posters.
From BrandRepublic
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Google on mobile
January 13th, 2006
These are some examples of what google’s doing in the mobile space. These guys are busy:)
google personalized homepage on your phone
google talk and google local on blackberries
ads with phone call functionality
more info.
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This SMS will self destruct in 5 seconds…
December 13th, 2005
It’s called StealthText. It let’s you send an SMS that deletes itself after a certain amount of time.
“If Governments feel our communications are important enough to control then perhaps it is time we should feel the same way.”
“Do we really know the people in our address book that well?”
From StealthText website.
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EA + JAMDAT
December 8th, 2005
Dec. 8 (Yahoo Business) – Electronic Arts Inc. and JAMDAT Mobile Inc. today announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which EA will acquire JAMDAT. EA will pay $27 per share in cash in exchange for each share of JAMDAT common stock and assume outstanding stock options for a total of approximately $680 million.
That’s hot. Read all about the merger here.
From Yahoo Business.
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Attention sports fanatics…
November 28th, 2005
…the ESPN phone is available as of today. Check out this demo. Only on Sprint.
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Lemmings meet Tamagotchi
November 25th, 2005
iFone has released a game in which you get to “own” your very own Lemming. You feed it, train it and give it a name. This Lemming will always be available to you via your cell phone.
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For more information on Lemmings, please visit this site.
Samsung D600
November 23rd, 2005
This one’s a little slow to load but it’s pretty interesting.
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