Sony Ericsson showcases X1

Sony Ericsson today launches its new multimedia Xperia X1 mobile phone, at Tent London, to showcase its innovative and unique style amongst some of the world’s most cutting edge designers.

Tent London – part of London Design Week – offers visitors the opportunity to experience and exclusively preview this stunning phone at the Sony Ericsson stand in Hall T4.

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GyPSii helps mobile users to reserve hotel in China

If you will travel to China, seems you should consider to use this service. You will be able to access almost 7,000 eLong partner hotels in China and select the hotel of their choice while on the move. GyPSii today teamed-up with eLong, Inc. to provide GyPSii-powered hotel information to visitors to China. The service’s users will have access from their mobile phone to eLong’s large selection of hotel content.


GyPSii currently interoperates on Symbian, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices, as well as the Apple iPhone, along with browser-based Internet connected devices. It can be accessed on the web at www.gypsii.com or a compatible phone’s mobile browser at: www.gypsii.com/m.

GeoSentric’s GyPSii is the market-leading mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform. Based in Salo, Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, GeoSentric operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

eLong, Inc. is a leading online travel company in China. Headquartered in Beijing, eLong has a national presence across China. eLong uses web-based distribution technologies and a 24-hour call center to provide consumers with access to travel reservation services.

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ChangingWorlds launches Orange World portal in Austria

ChangingWorlds today launched the new Orange World portal for Orange Austria’s 2 million subscribers. The new portal offers a wide range of compelling news, music, entertainment and gaming content to subscribers.


Based on ChangingWorlds’ ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform, it offers a dynamic and multi-lingual portal that enables users to quickly reach their topics of interest. ClixSmart’s intelligent content discovery capabilities ensure that content is relevant to individual users and is optimally presented on the user’s handset by leveraging the device’s capabilities to maximum effect.

“We are very impressed with how quickly and smoothly we have been able to switch from the old ONE portal to the new Orange World portal,” said Günter Lischka, Head of Marketing from Orange Austria.

ChangingWorlds‘ customer base worldwide includes Sprint in the USA, Vodafone Global, the O2 Group, T-mobile, TeliaSonera, CSL Hong Kong, FarEasTone Taiwan and Celcom Malaysia.

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3ple-Media helps operators to monetize mobile multimedia

3ple-Media, has launched Mercury ViralTrack - the solution to offer full viral tracking for image, audio and mobile video content that is passed between subscribers. ViralTrack enables mobile operators to build deep intelligence on individual user preferences, behaviors and communities. It does this without altering or changing the tracked content in any way.


This service is capable of maintaining the original quality of the content across several sequential forwards, therefore contributing to a larger viral penetration and increased incremental revenue. It provides operators and their content providing mobile 2.0 partners with the ultimate digital tracking and profiling capability.

3ple-Media develops, delivers and supports multimedia technology for mobile operators. The company is headquartered in The Netherlands. Asian, African and American markets are served through regional sales offices in Singapore, Johannesburg and Panama. The Company’s development center is located in Romania, with regional operational centers in Singapore and the Philippines.

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Google adds NYC mass transit to Maps for mobile

Take Google Maps for mobile in your pocket, so you can go wherever you want and make sure you won’t get lost. Yeah, it’s the main objective of this latest Google’s application. Google Maps for mobile with public transit directions is available (at http://m.google.com/nyc) for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60, and many Java-based phones.

Now that Google Maps can give you subway, train, bus, and ferry directions in New York City, it’s a handy tool for planning a night on the town. But what if your plans change while you’re at dinner?

Luckily, Google Maps for mobile can give you the same public transit directions right on your cell phone! You can plan trips throughout the New York metro area, including turn-by-turn walking directions. With the My Location feature, most cell phones can automatically set the starting point for your trip, even without GPS. And satellite view and Street View (on selected devices) can show you a preview of where you’re going.

So, don’t miss it!

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Samsung Camera Phones to be Pre-Loaded with Scanbuy’s 2D Barcode Application

Scanbuy has secured a global agreement with Samsung to preload the ScanLife mobile 2D barcode application on Samsung’s camera phones. Samsung will begin selling these phones in Spain, Italy, and Denmark starting as early as next month. Availability will quickly expand to other major markets including Mexico and the United States.


The application reads EZcodes and other major 2D barcode formats designed to recognize and process information. The ScanLife solution gives consumers and code publishers both national and
international interoperability for the use of 2D codes.

“The 2D barcode solution delivered by Scanbuy is a valuable technology, making phone navigation simpler and more effective for end users,” said Wonsik Lee, Vice President of R&D Planning Team, Samsung. “We are dedicated to continually improving our customers’ experience using Samsung mobiles, and the ScanLife application allows them to instantly access information anytime and anywhere.”

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Rumor: Motorola Q11 Spyshot Leaked

Bluetooth SIG has already given us the info on the upcoming Moto Q11 early this month, although there wasn’t much other specifications info and pictures on the site. It does not take long to see the actual devices though, Mobility Today posted 2 spyshots together with some info yesterday.


Other than a more compact QWERTY keyboard, the new Motorola Q11 is similar to other Moto Q-family. It will be running Windows Mobile 6.1, comes with built in GPS, WiFi, bluetooth and a 3 megapixel camera.

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