What’s that? Linux alliance?

Yes, these companies want to beat Microsoft and Symbian.

Six mobile phone industry giants announced their goal to create a new Linux-based software platform for mobile devices in order to challenge Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows.

Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, and Samsung Electronics, have joined together with mobile phone service providers NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone to develop the unnamed mobile Linux enterprise.

The six device manufacturering companies said they intend to create a single mobile phone software platform based on the Linux kernel that will reduce time to market as well as development and testing costs.

Via GameShout

I wish that I was living in the USA. Now, I just gotta watch the stupid ads, and BINGO.

Free credit…

With the cost of mobile phone calls already dropping sharply, Virgin Mobile USA plans to announce a way that people can talk for no money at all.

They will, however, have to pay with a chunk of their attention.

The program, called SugarMama, lets people earn one minute of talking time by watching 30-second commercials on a computer or receiving text messages on their phones, then answering questions to prove they were, in fact, paying attention.

Virgin Mobile, a relatively small cell phone carrier with 4 million mostly young customers, is aiming the program at teenagers, who can earn up to 75 minutes of free talk time a month.

Via CNET

Mobily has launched recently the international MMS with

and

which enable Mobily subscribers to send multi media messages (MMS) to these countries from Mobily network in the Saudi Arabia.

Mobily was also the first Saudi mobile operator to launch MMS last year when it launched its services alongside with more than 15 new added value services, launched for the first time in the Kingdom, such as located base services (LBS), roaming for prepaid SIM cards, missed call notifications messaging for prepaid SIM cards, GPRS EDGE, etc.

If you’re from South Africa, you MTN portal for MMS will be;

http://www.mtn.co.za/mms

But, kindly take note that if you’re trying to access http://mms.mtn.co.za/mms/wapenc, you won’t be redirected to the MMS page. Instead, it will show no page found.

Please update your bookmark / favorites.

For more information, you can always refer to MTN.co.za Official website, regarding MMS Messaging.

Viewing MMS messages from Honduras / Gibraltar via Tigo.com.hn / Tigo.com.gt /Go-tigo.com carrier will be;

http://www.go-tigo.com/mms

If you’re from Slovakia, and using Orange as your carrier, kindly visit this page;

http://www.orangeportal.sk/mms

It provides a service for you to view / show your MMS messages.

Have fun.

If you’re from Canada, and try to access the MMS features, on the Fido carrier, login to:

http://www.fido.ca/mms

Telecom giants Orange have launched a new photography service that lets snapping mobile users back up and store their digital photos on the move.

A new program will make it easy for users to upload their mobile photos by selecting an ‘upload to album’ option straight after their masterpiece has been captured.

The auto-upload application will be pre-installed on the soon-come Nokia N80, with the program being downloadable from Orange World. Compatible devices include the Nokia N70, 6680, 6630, 6230i phones.

Click Orange Mobile Photography

Via Digital-Lifestyles

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (commonly abbreviated as SingTel) is Singapore’s largest telecommunications company. With a combined mobile subscriber base of 78 million customers from its own operations and regional associates, SingTel is the largest mobile network operator in Asia Pacific outside of the People’s Republic of China. A former government monopoly privatized in 1992, SingTel divested its postal operation SingPost in 2003 and now concentrates on providing internet service provider, mobile phone and fixed line telephony services.

SingTel has expanded aggressively outside its home market and owns shares in many regional operators, including 100% of Australian telecommunications company Optus, acquired in 2000 from Cable and Wireless and other shareholders of Optus.

SingTel is majority owned by state investment vehicle Temasek Holdings. SingTel is currently headed by Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest son of the former prime minister, now known as Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and the brother of current prime minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.

Via Wikipedia

So what about the emotion icon? I want to download the emoticon.

To download the emotion icon, what you have to do is just go the official website.

Click Singtel Mobile

Oh, please.. don’t be mad at me…

Vodafone Group plc is a British mobile phone operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England, is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover, with equity interests in 27 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in a further 32 countries. Its name stands for VOice DAta FONE (phone).

31 December 2005 Vodafone had 179.3 million proportionate customers in 27 markets across 5 continents. [1] (“Proportionate customers” means, for example, that if Vodafone has a 30% stake in a business with a million customers, that is counted as 300,000). On this measure it is the second-largest mobile telecom group in the world behind China Mobile. The six markets where it has more than ten million proportionate customers are the United Kingdom; Germany, the United States, Italy, Japan, and Spain. In the U.S., these customers come via its minority stake in Verizon Wireless, and in the other five markets Vodafone has majority-controlled subsidiaries.

Via Wikipedia

So, what’s the link?

It’s NOT http://www.vodafone.de/mms.

The correct URL is https://www.vodafone.de/mmsc