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Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:10:00 GMT

The wait is over. Nokia announced the five finalists for the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards which will be screened during the Pangea Day broadcast on May 10th. The winners will be flown to Los Angeles to attend one of Pangea Day's six live broadcast locations on Saturday, May 10th. Pangea Day was created by award-winning documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim after winning the prestigious 2006 TED Prize. Together, Noujaim and TED, with support from Nokia, have created Pangea Day to connect people by harnessing the power of film and encouraging people to view the world through someone else's eyes.

Motorola at Mobile World Congress

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:20:00 GMT

Every mobile phone manufacturer appeared to be fully prepared to show their latest and even future line of mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress, except for Motorola. The international press seems unanimous in their conclusion; Motorola are going through a very difficult time and can't seem to overcome their difficulties. Besides the disappointing presentation of the mobile phone offer, hospitality with respect to the (photographing) press also seemed nonexistent. Several press photographers were refused to capture the Motorola products, even still after revealing they belonged to the press. Motorola seemed to have conveniently forgotten that these people travel around half the world to give their precious time for publications.

LG at the Mobile World Congress

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:24:00 GMT

LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, will unveil its latest products and future technologies at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. At the show LG will officially launch the LG KF700, a new handset with an optimized user interface that makes use of touch technology. Further highlights include two other handsets featuring touch technology: the convenience-oriented LG KF600 and a professional-level camera phone, the LG Viewty. LG designed the LG KF600 and LG KF700 to be amazingly intuitive and natural to use with feed-forward menus and multiple input methods that create an unparalleled user experience.

GRAMMY Awards at Nokia video centre

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:47:00 GMT

Nokia is taking The Recording Academy and the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards 'global and mobile' by offering GRAMMY Award winning music and video programming to Nokia customers around the world. GRAMMY Award-winning music is also planned to be available for download from the Nokia Music Store as well as preloaded on selected Nokia devices in key markets.

Robert Redford at Mobile World Congress

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:10:00 GMT

The GSM Association (GSMA) announced that film actor, director and Sundance Institute Founder & President, Robert Redford will headline at Mobile Backstage, a special one day Mobile Entertainment conference on Wednesday 13th February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s largest communications industry event. Known as the primary force for 25 years in the nurturing of new cinematic voices and the emergence of independent film as a force in the entertainment industry, Redford and Sundance continue a tradition of exploration and promotion of content delivery on new platforms.

MobileFocus Global in Barcelona

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:00:00 GMT

Pepcom, Inc. announced it's taking its signature mobile and wireless press showcase event into the European market! The first annual MobileFocus Global in Barcelona will take place after opening day of the Mobile World Congress trade show. MobileFocus Global will be held at the Avenida Palace hotel in central Barcelona, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 11th. MobileFocus will be the largest media gathering during the show, with hundreds of journalists and analysts expected to attend.

SanDisk Wake Up Your Phone party

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:30:00 GMT

SanDisk Corporation’s launch party on the famous Sunset Strip this past weekend was filled with an exclusive group of celebrities, musicians, SanDisk key clients and the world’s media enjoying VIP treatment in three of the most exclusive venues on Sunset Strip. Lucky guests were treated to exclusive performances from Linkin Park, Common, Z-Trip, Supernatural, Cut Chemist and The Crystal Method, all of whom performed in the top three legendary clubs in Los Angeles. The SanDisk event was the first time the Viper Room, The Roxy and the Key Club were simultaneously reserved for a single event by one company.

Samsung G800 Press Event in London

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:10:00 GMT

During a mixed dealer and press event in London, Samsung officially announced the Samsung G800 camera phone. The high resolution 5 Megapixel Samsung G800 is an enhanced version of the G600. Samsung introduce the new G800 camera phone as a striking digital camera that can also be used as a mobile phone. Samsung has high expectations from the G800 handset. Samsung had hired part of the British Museum for the event that took place in London on Monday night 29th of October.

• Read the full Samsung G800 press conference

Halloween celebration via your mobile

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:30:00 GMT

Cellufun announced their 'Hellofun' celebration; a community event where users can decorate their homepages and dress up their avatars in costumes. Just like all people who trick-or-treat every Halloween across the VS, Cellufun users can collect treats and give out tricks, right from their mobile phone. Registered users will find -from today on- a link on their homepage that invites them to "Celebrate Hellofun." Users start decorating their homepages with Halloween imagery, choose frightfully clever costumes for their avatars, and compete in giving and getting tricks and treats.

HTC Press conference

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:00:00 GMT

HTC gave their third press conference in the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands. Mark Moons, Country Manager Benelux and spokesman for HTC Netherlands looked back on the first half of this year, 2007, and compared it with the first half of 2006 regarding the market share they possessed at that time. Canalys data show a market share increase from 11.2 to 14.4%. At the same time it becomes apparent that Windows Mobile as operating system for the smartphone is the undisputed market leader with a total market growth of 17.6%. Resulting in a market leadership in the Netherlands for HTC phones for Windows Mobile Smartphones with a share of 69% (first half of 2007) as is shown in a diagram by Canalys.

Symbian Smartphone Show

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:30:00 GMT

Monotype Imaging Inc., a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, is bringing mobile alive with scalable fonts at the Symbian Smartphone Show, Oct. 16 - 17, at the Excel Centre in London. Monotype Imaging will feature demonstrations at its stand (# 35) and a series of presentations in the Live Lounge on how developers, handset manufacturers, operators and designers can enrich the mobile experience with fonts.

Pentax Mobile Printer Showcased

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:52:00 GMT

Pentax Technologies is pleased to announce that their UK distributor RGI Mobile Solutions will showcase the ultra mobile Pentax PocketJet 3/3 Plus printer solution and Pentax DS Mobile 600 colour scanner at Service Management Europe at the NEC, Birmingham, in October. RGI Mobile Solutions have been distributing the Pentax PocketJet range of portable printers and peripherals for over seven years. Thousands of PocketJets have been successfully installed in utility, fire, ambulance, military and commercial vehicles and field service engineers’ kits.

Deutsche Telekom successful at IFA

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:32:00 GMT

Deutsche Telekom is very satisfied with this year's Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin. More than 170,000 IFA visitors came to Deutsche Telekom stand in Hall 6.2 to find out about the latest innovations and trends in telecommunications. Over 700 visitors a day took up the offer of one-to-one advice at the service counter. Here, many individual questions on Deutsche Telekom's services and tariffs were answered and many mobile phones quickly repaired or re-set by experts.

Mobile Coverage of ELLE Fashion Week

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:38:00 GMT

Yahoo! and ELLE have formed a partnership to provide fresh off-the-runway news, photos and trends from Fashion Week 2007 on the accessory people never leave home without - their mobile phone. Beginning Sept. 5 in New York City and followed by Fashion Weeks in Milan and Paris, consumers everywhere can access exclusive ELLE Fashion Week coverage through Yahoo! oneSearch on their mobile browser. Yahoo! oneSearch is a new search experience designed to give consumers more targeted content and instant info on their mobile phones. No more useless links that require time and patience to search and download.

Leipzig Messe mobile game convention

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:02:00 GMT

Jamba, the mobile industry’s largest vertically integrated mobile entertainment company, will be exhibiting action-packed mobile entertainment for the first time at the Games Convention in Leipzig. From August 22 through 26, Jamba, together with Mr. Goodliving a global game development company, will showcase the latest trends in mobile games, including action games, exhilarating multiplayer games and many other novelties Jamba markets worldwide at stand B44 in Hall 4 at Leipziger Messe.

Kyocera sponsor of Virgin Festival

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:23:00 GMT

Kyocera Wireless, a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, and leading wireless youth network Virgin Mobile USA announced that for the second consecutive year Kyocera is the premiere handset sponsor of Virgin Festival By Virgin Mobile. A two-day music event held at historic Pimlico Race Course(C) in Baltimore, MD August 4-5, the festival includes over 40 bands and DJs featuring headline acts such as The Police, Beastie Boys and The Smashing Pumpkins.

Africa on motorbike with Nokia Navigator

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:17:00 GMT

The Nokia 6110 Navigator, launched in South Africa earlier this week, has proven its capabilities in one of the toughest environments possible - with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as they took the 'Long Way Down' from Scotland to the southern most tip of Africa on motorcycle. The journey lasted three months and saw the pair ride 24 000km and cross two continents. With the Nokia 6110 Navigator routing the path, best friends Ewan and Charley defied the elements atop customized BMW motorcycles, crossing the finishing line today in Cape Town.

IPTV at IFA 2007

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:15:00 GMT

With the increasing pace of digitalization of television transmission a new acronym has emerged: IPTV, which stands for “television on the basis of the internet protocol”. This refers to new kinds of television services which permit genuine interactivity, in other words not simply the capability for zapping through all the channels but also video on demand and individual access to all kinds of information and entertainment programmes. In this way television is expanding beyond the structures typically associated with it today: Viewers are no longer restricted solely to a time sequence stipulated by the programme schedules. Irrespective of the schedules drawn up by the television networks.

Mobile World congress

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:17:00 GMT

The GSMA is rebranding the 3GSM World Congress and its sister event in Asia to reflect their role encouraging the development of compelling new mobile services for end-users. Set to take place in Macau in November, the 3GSM World Congress Asia will now be called the Mobile Asia Congress and the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona has been rebranded as the Mobile World Congress. “Both the GSMA and the Congresses are focused on helping operators use the potent platform provided by today’s highly-capable and extensive mobile networks to better serve the many needs and desires of this industry’s almost 3 billion customers,” said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA, which owns both the Barcelona and Macau events.

Kyocera at CTIA Wireless

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:02:00 GMT

Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless handsets and devices, at the CTIA Wireless trade show demonstrated several solutions that deliver on the promise of next-generation wireless technologies to enable a variety of mobile consumer applications. Using its trade show booth as an experience center, Kyocera is demonstrating prototype handsets and devices to showcase the Visa mobile platform using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology; MobiTV streaming television over a WiMAX high-speed connection with Runcom; Wi-Fi-powered music downloads; and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) mobile phone calls over dual-mode CDMA/Wi-Fi connections.

Motorola CDMA universal base station

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:39:00 GMT

Motorola, Inc. announced its next-generation universal base station (UBS) and Picocell M810 at CTIA Wireless 2007. Both products will be deployed in mobile communications service provider networks with various frequencies and configurations (CDMA 1x and EVDO-Rev A) beginning this year. The Motorola UBS is built on a highly integrated product architecture that offers enhanced reliability and integrated functionality. It is a cost-effective solution for both emerging and mature markets with a broad range of capacity-growth capabilities and configurations.

BlackBerry keynote at CTIA Wireless 2007

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:05:00 GMT

Wireless 2007, the world’s largest event for the Wireless industry, announced that Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM) will deliver a keynote address on opening day, Tuesday, March 27. CTIA Wireless takes place March 27-29 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Mike Lazaridis is replacing Motorola CEO Ed Zander as a keynoter. “Mike Lazaridis is a welcome addition to a stellar keynote line-up this year,” said Robert Mesirow, vice president of operations and show director for CTIA Wireless.

Motorola mobile portfolio

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:59:00 GMT

Motorola, a global leader in wireless communications, delivered compelling mobile experiences with a portfolio of devices and solutions that demonstrate the company’s leadership in design, music, media, high-speed performance, wireless broadband and connecting the unconnected. “What better place than 3GSM World Congress to show how Motorola’s latest products and services are making seamless mobility real?” said Ron Garriques, president of Motorola Mobile Devices. “This year we’ll be demonstrating wickedly cool and compelling products that are making on the go and always-on entertainment and communication a personal reality for everyone, as well as the solutions and services which enable our customers to deliver them to their consumers.”

Download films at Sundance Film Festival

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:16:00 GMT

The five short ‘made for mobile’ films, premiering exclusively at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona this week, are now available for mobile users to download around the world today. Information on the project and instructions for accessing the films can be found on the special website. To download the short films, text the word ‘FILM’ to +44 7624807811. A text message reply to your phone will include a link to the Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project mobile web page with thumbnails, descriptions of each of the five films and information about each filmmaker.

Nokia and Siemens at 3GSM

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:14:00 GMT

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia and Siemens are joining forces under the banner of the future Nokia Siemens Networks to present numerous innovative live demonstrations that show how operators and other service providers can bring fixed, mobile or converged networks to life for both consumers and businesses. Nokia Siemens Networks is a planned new company into which Nokia and Siemens intend to merge the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier related operations of Siemens. The planned merger to create Nokia Siemens Networks is expected to close in the first quarter 2007.

New camera phone technology at the 3GSM

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Scalado AB, a leading developer of mobile imaging software, announced that it will be showcasing some of the key features of its new CAPS imaging technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next week. After a successful 2006, that saw the Swedish firm break onto the global stage with its unique patented imaging software engine (CAPS) for camera phones, the Barcelona event offers the perfect stage to highlight some its key features and applications to a truly global audience. 2006 not only saw Scalado develop and finalise its most technologically advanced imaging application yet, but also the addition of a number of key industry players to the Scalado customer portfolio.

Nokia New Years Eve celebration

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:46:00 GMT

Nokia will welcome the New Year in unique style - by connecting millions of music lovers from around the world as they count down the final minutes of 2006. Nokia New Year's Eve, a global music event stretching across four continents, will feature a number of international artists including The Black Eyed Peas and Scissor Sisters to entertain audiences at New Year's celebrations from Hong Kong to Rio de Janeiro. Those unable to attend in person can experience the party via television or the internet. To orchestrate this unique global celebration, Nokia has enlisted the services of Harvey Goldsmith CBE, the producer of Live Aid and Live8.

MOTO RED fights AIDS in Africa

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:00:00 GMT

Motorola, Inc. announced gold medalist and professional snowboarder Shaun White is the newest ambassador for MOTO RED. In this new role, Shaun will spread the word about Motorola teaming-up with (PRODUCT) RED and the mobile device company’s efforts to help fight AIDS in Africa. From snowboarding slopes to video games, Shaun helps inspire a new generation of sports enthusiasts, young people and others to achieve their dreams. As a global ambassador for MOTO RED, Shaun will help spread RED by building awareness for the MOTO RED product line that is designed to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.

Sony Ericsson night tennis

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:49:00 GMT

Sony Ericsson today announces the launch of a revolutionary new concept, Night Tennis. Combining internationally renowned DJs, Groove Armada and Darren Emerson with a fashion extravaganza, thumping tunes and a game of tennis, it promises to rock Madrid. Night Tennis will run over two evenings, 9th and 10th November, as part of Sony Ericsson sponsored entertainment, competitions and events during the week of the Sony Ericsson Championships. Eight players will take to the court wearing specially designed neon whites to serve up a new type of tennis. Played in pitch black, with UV as the only source of light, it promises to revolutionise the way tennis is played and watched.

LG sponsors All Star Poker Showdown

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:15:00 GMT

LG Mobile Phones will sponsor the first-annual LG All-Star Poker Showdown, hosted by Jenny McCarthy. The event will feature professional poker stars Johnny Chan and Chris Moneymaker providing poker lessons for and playing against the finest poker enthusiasts Hollywood has to offer, and will offer them an intimate look at the new LG phone, The ‘V’. The star-studded guest list will arrive at the Palms Casino and proceed to the very new and highly exclusive Hardwood Suite to begin the tournament.

LG Action Sports Championships event

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:33:00 GMT

LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A, Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) celebrated its commitment to the action sports industry with the announcement of the fourth annual LG Action Sports Championships (LGASC) event. The 2006 Championships will feature special performances by Action Sports legends Tony Hawk and Mat Hoffman during the LG Demo Mash. Additionally, both athletes as well as actor/skateboarder Bam Margera will host an event in conjunction with LG and the Make-A-Wish Foundation where kids can spend time with their favorite Action Sports athletes. A coordinated effort between LG and ASA Events, the highly anticipated Championships will take place Friday October 27th through Sunday, October 29th at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.