GyPSii Deals with Garmin [Mobile Content Today]
As Garmin feels the heat from GPS-enabled handsets, they continue to make their devices more phone-like. Now they are hooking up with location-based social network GyPSii to help find friends when you’re on the road.
Tennessee Tops in Texting [Mobile Content Today]
After two years of comparing state mobile statistics, Verizon Wireless announced that Tennessee reigns as “textest” state surveyed, which included a dozen other Southern states.
Towards free location on all devices [Telematics Update]
Open source Cell-ID is the future of free location on cell phones–the missing link to truly scalable LBS.
Teen mobile subscriber market reaching saturation: Study [Mobile Marketer]
With teen mobile subscription growing, researchers expect the market to reach saturation soon when 90% of teens own mobiles. The study also found that teen girls subscribed more than boys.
Samsung Instinct flies off Sprint’s shelves at record pace [Engadget Mobile]
Sprint finally has some good news—the Samsung Instinct (an iPhone clone) has become their best-selling EV-DO device ever in its first week of availability.
Tabletop Football Goes Mobile [psfk]
Foosball appears on the Nokia N95 handset, incorporating the game’s traditional hand and wrist motion to pass the balls through the goal.
How We Carry Our Mobile Phones [psfk]
Some interesting findings from a recent Nokia global study: 80% of Milan women carry their phone in their bag while only 30% of women in LA do, people in BRIC nations are getting multiple phones/SIMS to optimize costs, and clamshell designs are a hit with Chinese women.
Holographic Text Messages [BuzzFeed]
The technology isn’t quite there yet for the 3G iPhone, but some say that holograph messaging may eventually replace voicemail, email and texting as the preferred form of mobile communication.
Vodafone and MySpace Create Mobile Music Platform [Mobile Content Today]
Vodafone struck a deal with MySpace to launch the Vodafone Music Reporter, a mobile service that will give concert goers in Europe the chance to submit reports on sponsored events throughout the summer.
Telefonica to Launch Global Multichannel Mobile Ad Platform [Mobile Marketer]
Telefonica will use Amobee’s Ad Server to enable behavioral targeting on all handsets for games, video and music players, ring back tones and other non-voice related applications and services.
Google launches mobile community [Mobile Marketer]
Google has started a new crowdsourcing platform–a mobile social networking community where they hope visionary nerds will discuss mobile amongst themselves (and Google engineers).
Advertising is the Medium or Distributed Broadcasting [Talent Imitates, Genius Steals]
Instead of getting advertisements via Google’s AdSense, you may soon be receiving clips of Family Guy creator Seth Mcfarlane’s new animated series. Prepare to get “mediatised.”
Eradicating TB with … cell phone minutes? [MIT News]
MIT students are using a new technology called paper microfluids to ensure TB drug compliance in Nicaragua and rewarding patients with free minutes.
