Resco Releases Resco MobileBusiness Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 add-on for mobile application developers.

Bratislava, Slovakia (PRWEB) February 27, 2008 -- Resco, a supplier of advanced developer tools and components for mobile devices, today announced availability of Resco MobileBusiness Toolkit, a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 add-on for mobile application developers, especially Sales Force Automation/Field Service application creators and Enterprise Resource Planning/Customer Relationship Management integrators. The resulting mobile application can be run on rich variety of Windows Mobile-based Smart phones.

“We understand that developer companies tend to use suitable software components to speed up the development and thus reduce the costs,” said Radomír Vozár, director of Resco, Enterprise Solutions. “By releasing Resco MobileBusiness Toolkit we provide the developer community a well-documented solution dedicated for mobile business application development which can be easily customized using the features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.”

The whole solution consists of:

• MobileForms Toolkit – set of versatile Visual Studio 2008 controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework designed specifically for mobile devices.
• MobileBusiness Controls – set of Visual Studio2008 user controls that demonstrate how to solve typical problems that developers of mobile business applications run into. MobileBusiness Controls are provided with the Microsoft Visual C# source code.
• MobileBusiness Forms – set of forms which serve as a container for MobileBusiness Controls as well as other components which all together create MobileBusiness mobile application. MobileBusiness Forms are provided with the Visual C# source code.

“Microsoft is pleased to see that Resco created a solution using Visual Studio 2008 that helps developers build basics of a mobile business application,” said Jay Roxe, group product manager for Visual Studio, Developer Division, at Microsoft Corp. “By using the features of Visual Studio 2008, Resco MobileBusiness Toolkit demonstrates how simple it can be to fit a mobile application to particular requirements.”

Mobile Gaming to Grow as Gamers Move to Newer Channels

(openPR) 27. February 2008 - According to The New Frontier: Portable and Mobile Gaming, gamers will soon begin migrating from the traditional carrier deck, which refers broadly to the carrier-maintained storefront on the handset, to newer, more innovative channels. This new Parks Associates report finds mobile game revenue generated through carrier decks will decrease from 90% of the total U.S. mobile gaming revenue to 72% in the next five years. By 2012, off-deck channels and ad-supported or subsidized mobile gaming will account for 28% of the market.

“Lack of competition has left most carrier decks with an uninspired user interface and poor merchandising environment, which contributed to the recent market stagnation,” said Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director of Broadband and Gaming, Parks Associates. “Off-deck marketing and distribution, combined with new business models such as mobile game advertising, episodic content delivery, and micro-payments, will rekindle industry growth.”

Parks Associates reports that many market forces are driving off-deck distribution of mobile content and services, including the growing influence of established media companies, experiments with alternative distribution channels and advertising models, and recent efforts to open carriers’ walled gardens, including the Open Handset Alliance and Nokia’s Ovi services.

“Many mobile game publishers are working on off-deck initiatives,” Cai said. “Even carriers like AT&T are building business-to-business platforms to allow game publishers to market and distribute games directly to mobile gamers.”

The New Frontier: Portable and Mobile Gaming studies market trends in mobile and portable gaming, examines new business models, and profiles more than 30 companies.

Vodafone UK Sat Nav Powered by Telmap Available for Consumers

Vodafone UK extends its Sat Nav service to mass market consumer mobile devices

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vodafone UK and Telmap, the world leader in advanced mobile mapping and navigation solutions, are today introducing Vodafone Sat Nav– an operator branded mobile navigation solution available for the UK consumer market.

The launch of Vodafone Sat Nav for consumers, powered by Telmap, is the first operator-branded mobile navigation service aimed at consumers in the UK. The solution has already been successfully launched into the enterprise market, where it is available on a number of devices.

Vodafone Sat Nav provides users with a complete mobile navigation experience, including both in-car and pedestrian navigation. Featuring 3D maps that enhance the navigation experience, up-to-date maps and directions it also gives the customer instant access to live traffic alerts and millions of points-of-interest such as hotels, restaurants, shopping and attractions.

“Following the success of Vodafone Sat Nav with our business customers, we know that consumers too want Sat Nav on their mobile phones,” says Ian Shepherd, consumer business director, of Vodafone UK. “By partnering with Telmap, Vodafone UK customers can now benefit from advanced Satellite Navigation on a range of handsets. We will continue to deliver location, navigation and mapping solutions that will appeal to all customers regardless of the type of mobile device they use.”

“This consumer launch further strengthens the partnership between Telmap and Vodafone UK and allows us to build on the success we have achieved with Vodafone Sat Nav in the enterprise market,” says Oren Nissim, CEO, Telmap. “As the first operator-branded mobile navigation service for UK consumers, this launch marks a significant milestone for both Telmap and the industry in bringing a fully featured Sat Nav experience to the mass-market mobile phone.”

Vodafone Sat Nav is available on a variety of consumer mobile devices; launching initially on three of Vodafone UK’s GPS embedded handsets – Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB and Nokia 6110 as well as the new BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8110 smartphone. The subscription to the service costs £5 per month with the first month free. When using the service data charges apply. Customers can purchase the service from any Vodafone retail stores, through telesales or directly from Vodafone live! Customers who purchase the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 will get 12 months Sat Nav included.

The solution has already been successfully launched into the enterprise market, where it is available on a number of devices including the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310, Vodafone UK’s fastest selling BlackBerry smartphone ever, and the BlackBerry Pearl 8110.

MELODIS Corporation Launches midomi mobile

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pioneering search and sound recognition company MELODIS Corporation today announced the launch of midomi mobile, its music search application for mobile devices.

midomi mobile allows users to search for music by singing, humming or even whistling into their mobile devices. The application accesses midomi’s online user-generated database of songs and uses MELODIS’ patented Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System (MARS) to identify what users are searching for.

The midomi song database has become the largest user-generated repository of its kind since its launch in January 2007. The free, membership-based midomi community is also a vibrant social-networking destination on the Web — providing a forum for amateur and professional musicians, talent seekers, and music lovers around the world to discover and be discovered.

Available for download free of cost at mobile.midomi.com, midomi mobile offers users a wide range of functionality. Having found a song using midomi mobile, users can play back the snippet from the rendition that matched their query or listen to other members’ renditions that helped identify the song. midomi mobile also enables users to search for music videos playable on mobile devices through services such as YouTube. And, users can connect to midomi’s social network through midomi mobile to access member profiles, recordings, playlists, and more.

The company will soon offer additional functionality for midomi mobile users. Future releases will allow users to identify original music content, such as music broadcast through the radio. Users will also be able to search for music by speaking out the song title or artist’s name, or by typing it without having to know the exact spelling.

The initial release of midomi mobile is designed for mobile phones using the Symbian OS and the popular S60 platform. MELODIS plans to release support for additional platforms such as the S40 Java platform in the near future.

“An increasing number of music-enabled handsets are sold each year, and we aim to make midomi mobile available on all of these handsets. With the exciting functionality we’re continuing to develop for midomi mobile, it will become the ultimate music search tool for the mobile market,” says Keyvan Mohajer, CEO, MELODIS Corporation.

The commercial potential of midomi is growing rapidly, according to Mohajer: “Both at the website and on midomi mobile, we’re providing advertising opportunities that are easily and quickly accessible for viewers and advertisers alike. This is allowing us to continue growing the services we can offer to our users and partners.”

Recognizing its potential, Nokia has recently selected midomi mobile as the Application of the Week.

KNFB Reading Technology, Inc. Premieres Reader Mobile Product Line

The kReader Mobile from knfbReading Technologies, Inc., allows the blind, vision impaired, and learning disabled to portably access print in real world situations, where receipts, menus, signs, and everyday objects were previously unreadable.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KNFB Reading Technology, Inc. will premiere its Reader Mobile product line—featuring the first cell phone that reads to the learning disabled, vision impaired, and blind—at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Conference 2008.

The pocket-sized device is the first of its kind, and enables users to take pictures of and then read most printed materials at the push of a button, using the high-resolution camera in the state-of-the-art Nokia N82 cell phone. Users can hear documents, signs, menus, receipts, even currency – most any printed text – read aloud in clear synthetic speech, at an adjustable speed.

KNFB Reading Technology is the brain child of Ray Kurzweil, a thirty-year innovator and pioneer in assistive technologies and the inventor of the world’s first print-to-speech reading machine. The kReader uses a combination of unique intelligent image-processing software with text-to-speech and text-tracking features, which makes interpreting text much easier for individuals with learning disabilities. They can now enlarge, read, track, and highlight text using the phone’s large, easy-to-read display.

"This innovation gives people with learning disabilities a mobile tool to cope with the large amount of reading required in business and everyday life. It gives them easy access to print, almost instantaneously, anywhere and at anytime,” said Ray Kurzweil, President and CEO of KNFB Reading Technology, Inc.

Playboy Mobile Launches National Model Search: 'Miss Playboy Mobile 2008'

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Playboy Mobile recently announced its 2008 strategy for extending the Playboy brand to a broader audience via its newest mobile initiative -- the inaugural "Miss Playboy Mobile 2008" model search. Harnessing the power of the online community and coupling it with the millions of mobile-phone users nationwide, Playboy Mobile will invite sophisticated, sexy women to register and build online profiles in their quest to be crowned Miss Playboy Mobile 2008. Visitors to the online and mobile sites can view the beautiful candidates and then vote for their favorite -- bringing her closer to the 2008 crown, a $5,000 cash-prize, and a professional photo-shoot at the world-famous Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Voters must cast their ballots via mobile phones.

"We are very excited about the inaugural Miss Playboy Mobile search, one of many new mobile initiatives we are launching this year," stated Edward Lang, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Mobile and International Online, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. "This campaign is entirely consumer-driven -- from submissions to voting -- and we designed it specifically to reflect the fun and sexy lifestyle shared by Playboy fans and mobile consumers. We look forward to crowning our first winner on April 2 in Las Vegas, home of the Playboy Club, as well as the site of the CTIA Wireless Association Convention."

To enter this nationwide search, women 18 years and older can register and submit their photos for initial voting on http://www.mspbm.com. Round-One voting recently began, and concludes on March 15. Voting on the finalists will extend from March 16 through March 31, after which all ten will be flown to Las Vegas. The winner will be crowned "Miss Playboy Mobile 2008" at a VIP celebration at the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa at the Palms Casino Resort on April 2, during CTIA.

LocaModa Connects Social Networks to Social Locations

BOSTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- LocaModa Inc. today introduced
breakthrough social connectivity to its interactive Out-of-Home platform.
LocaModa 3.0 enables mobile consumers to control and interact with social
media around them using any mobile phone on any network, while also giving
their friends online a window into what's happening via websites such as
Facebook.



  "By connecting social networks to social locations, our platform is
uniquely positioned to deliver the same kind of measurability for
Out-of-Home networks as advertisers and brands expect from the web," said
Stephen Randall, CEO LocaModa.

  LocaModa 3.0 offers a full range of mobile interactivity that
seamlessly enables multi-channel integrated marketing. Out-of-Home
advertisers can now extend their reach to the web and the phone, while
networks and location owners can tap into web-based user generated content
and bring in incremental revenue via online advertising.

  Applications designed for LocaModa 3.0 can run on existing digital
signage platforms or be installed as part of a complete LocaModa
interactive Out-of-Home solution. The platform is ideal for cafes, bars,
colleges and public spaces, but can also be used for conferences,
conventions and campaigns.

Mobile Music Adoption Revenues Set to Reach $17.5bn by 2012

Hampshire, UK -- Juniper Research reports global ringtone revenues heading for a decline while the global mobile music market is expected to continue to rise. The total value of the global mobile music market is expected to rise to more than $17.5bn by 2012, driven by rental music services and full-track downloads, according to a new report by Juniper Research.

According to report author Dr Windsor Holden, "I think it's fair to say that 2007 marked the tipping point as far as mobile music adoption was concerned. Far more subscribers began downloading and subscribing to music content in developed markets, and it must be said that that the publicity surrounding the iPhone launch undoubtedly contributed to consumer awareness of mobile music services per se."

However, the Juniper report also argues that current prices for ringtones are unsustainable and that the market for such services may already have peaked in a number of developed markets, arguing that competitive pricing allied to a steady migration to ad-funded and/or self-generated ringtones will lead to a gradual decline in global ringtone revenues.

"With some operators now offering full-track downloads at a comparable price to iTunes, there is little justification for a ringtone retail price point that is in many cases two or even three times this level," said Holden. "Furthermore, those aggregators whose portfolios are largely dependent upon the polyphonic ringtone will be unable to survive in the medium term unless they both rethink their pricing strategies and substantially diversify their product portfolios."

Other findings from the Juniper report include:

The China/Far East region will remain the largest regional marketplace for mobile music services, accounting for around 43% of sales per annum over the next five years

Ringtones, which accounted for 62% of the mobile music market in 2007, will account for just 38% by 2012

The report argues that more operators should emulate the Vodafone model and introduce similar subscription-based music rental services

Report Buyer Says China Mobile Phone Subscribers Hit 738 million in 2010

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	Report Buyer, has added a new report which finds that the number of mobile subscribers in China will reach 738 million in 2010. The report, “1Q08 Mobile Forecast: China (2007– 2010)” finds that the large increase in subscribers enables operators to have very high subscriber growth rates. It finds that China Mobile will have a subscriber growth of 43.7% and China Unicom will have 24.6% over the 2007 – 2010 forecast period. Authors of the report forecast that China Mobile’s market share will increase to 70.8% and that of China Unicom will decrease to 26.8% in 2010. They state that in 2010, China Mobile will enjoy a higher EBITDA margin of 53.2% compared to China Unicom, which will have an EBITDA margin of 34.7%. The study also predicts a lower US$ Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for China Mobile (US$ 11.43) and China Unicom US$ 6.69 in 2010. This forecast is mostly based on the exchange rate forecast for the US dollar.

TalkShoe Launches iPhone Application Giving Users Instant Ability to Talk and Listen Into Live Community Calls

Discuss Sports, Politics, Technology and More Directly From Your iPhone.

PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwire - February 25, 2008) - TalkShoe, the community call leader, today unveiled an iPhone application that allows mobile users to participate on a call with just their iPhone. The iPhone web application was designed specifically for the iPhone and displays all live TalkShoe community calls, which allow people to join calls of interest with one click.

Community calls are being hosted constantly and bring together people to discuss topics such as sports, the latest in Mac innovations, pop culture, home winemaking, tips on financial matters, politics, religion, automotive trends and more. Now iPhone users can simply go to iphone.talkshoe.com, view the live and upcoming shows and join the call.

iPhone users do not need to register to participate in community calls, however registered TalkShoe users can now use their iPhone to conduct or manage their own community call episodes.