The Wall Street Journal will begin charging consumers as much as $2 a week to access its news coverage via mobile device.
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of parent firm News Corp., said it will impose mobile fees within the next month or two. Murdoch did say that subscribers to the Journal’s print edition would only be charged $1 a [...]
A few months ago, we discussed how mobile music is evolving from ring tones to new music services. However, it’s not easy to find the right model to generate revenue in this market.
In September, the iPhone app Spotify was launched to the Apple app store, allowing users to access music playlists on their phone as part of the [...]
Pregnant cows informing the farmer by SMS when they’re about to give birth – how sweet!
The device that can make this happen, was introduced at a farmers convention in the French Rennes. A week before the scheduled birth, a thermometer should be inserted into the cow’s vagina. This thermometer is attached through sensors to a [...]
Nokia has announced a new mobile payment service, under the name Nokia Money.
The service is targeted mainly at countries with a limited bank infrastructure. Argumenting that there are 4 billion mobile phones worldwide, compared to only 1,6 billion bank accounts, Nokia considers the mobile phone as the perfect device to facilitate a payment or a money [...]
Mobile-for, the Belgacom affiliate responsible for the SMS parking services in several Belgian cities, has launched a mobile application to facilitate this service. The app, which can be tested in Leuven as from October 2009, can be downloaded on all Google Android enabled smartphones (which kinda limits the testing audience…) In the coming months however, the [...]
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