Ccube

Ccube is a free phone service that connects parties to any phone, whether it be mobile or land line, and offers solutions for calling long distance. CCube main feature is named Toolbox that includes four options for users to take advantage of Ccube’s calling services. First, there’s the Web Communicator, which lets users connect with each other via phone without the necessity of needing to remember one’s phone number. This is tied in with Ccube’s account services, and lets you find contacts using keywords. The Call Me Widget is self-explanatory. It works like most other call me widgets, which you can place on your website or blog, and let others click on it in order to give you a call, for free. There’s also a feature called My Keypad, which is an option for simply dialing a number, and a Virtual Calling Card, which can be sent to others as a way of encouraging them to give you a call. These virtual calling cards offer free nationwide calling.

Dashwire

Dashwire is a new mobile network. It synchronizes with pretty much everything you do on your hand set, saving messages, images, videos, ringtones, checking your ringtones, and more. This gives you an easily accessible way in which to handle activity on your mobile without actually having to use it.While other services enable you to send text messages from the web to another user’s cell phone, messages sent from Dashwire will appear to others as having been sent from your cell phone. You can even configure certain aspects of your cell phone, such as assigned ringtones to friends, through Dashwire. Dashwire currently supports Windows Mobile 5 and 6. Speaking of Windows Mobile, Microsoft has expanded its efforts to reach more users around the globe with the introduction of Live ID for use on cell phones.

Whrrl

Whrrl is a new mobile network that lets you aggregate information as you visit different places in life. It’s generally like a location review service that’s wrapped up in a map mashup and a social network. If you’re on the north side of town and you’d like to find a restaurant or a local museum, you can access whrrl on your mobile and do a search based on your location. From there you can filter search results based on ratings, users, activity type, price, hours of operation, distance and neighborhood. If you go to a location and would like to review it, you can “check in” and write your review (this is in a wiki format), give it a rating, and this is all incorporated into the Whrrl database for other users’ benefit. Add some images if you’d like. People like to look at pictures. Locations can also be bookmarked, so you can check them out the next time you’re on that side of town. If you’d really like to be kept up to date with what’s going on around you, check out your newsfeed. This consists of activity going on with your friends.

senior cell phones

Jitterburg (a creation of GreatCall) is a website that offers very important and useful products especially for older people. In few words, GreatCalls has simplified the mobile technology creating a new line of senior cell phones with soft ear cushion, powerful speaker, big buttons and brighter text that make them extremely easy to use. But there is more: this cell phones for senior citizens are in fact also helpful, thanks to the possibility to associate with them, at a very little price (from $10/month), a 24-hour help desk (directly operated by Jitterbug operators) that can make calls for you (just tell him/her the name of the people you want to call), provide directory assistance or can add names to your phone list. An example of this phone is shown in the picture. Jitterbug offers three different plans: The Simply Share (you can share the monthly service and add on minutes with your friends or family for just $15/month for each additional user. Calls between Jitterbug users that share your account are totally free) or the monthly plans. This last option is divided into SOS (the basic plan, just $0,35/minute), Simple 30, 60, 150, 300 (where the number represents the minutes/month included in the plan) and PLUS that permits 800 minutes of calling and totally free calls to operators and voicemail. Rates are extremely interesting: if compared with other prepaid services, you can save up to $480 in two years. The phone itself cost just $147...and can be a really great gifts for senior citizens.

PlayerBlock

PlayerBlock is an SMS-based service that lets you check up on your date to see if he’s a player. This service appears to revolve around phone numbers, so in order to find out about your date, you type in their phone number to see if you can dig up any dirt. All the information found through PlayerBlock is user-generated, so in order to find any information on a date, someone else must have dated them first, and written a report on them. Likewise, you’re encouraged to dish the dirt on your dates. As this is primarily a text-messaging service, it makes it that much easier to get reports and give reports while you’re on the actual date. You can also enter a number to be “watched,” meaning you’ll receive an update on that person once a new entry has been added.

GoLive!Mobile

This month is a great date for the technology's world because, exactly 20 years ago, the construction of the first GSM network was started. I still remember the first "mobile" GSM terminal...enormous (like a little suitcase), with a little text and monochrome display. And I remember that only few VIP people had that terminal. And after 20 years, that mobile phone is just a nice memory: today everyone can buy a phone that is incredibly similar to a little PC. We now can take pictures, record videos, send emails, browse the net, write a document and so on. And this revolution has created a new market, a mobile market, that is "assailed" by grands and companies. Consider that today, one of three big brands have still tested this new field: most of us have probably received some special offers as sms (personally i receive last minute offers for travels or invites for chat rooms). This market is still young but thanks to the new technologies that will permit advertisers to target their sms marketing on a determined group of person, it will vertiginous grow in the next time. Obviously, if you want to enter this market, you must pay the maximum attention in finding the right partner:: sending Sms to the wrong people can be really deleterious. GoLive!Mobile, the leader in mobile billing and content management solutions has created a great portfolio of mobile products that perfectly fit with the new terminals and the interaction's possibility offered to phone's owner. GoLive!Mobile is able to offers to its customers applications that permits contests, property listings, mobile coupons, workgroup chat, data relay, reminders, polling, trivia, premium sms....all using the SMS. But this is only a little part of what this mobilizing marketing company can offer you...i suggest you to visit its website to know more about its products.

ToneMine

ToneMine is a new just launched ringtone mixer. This application is more extensive than most services out there, with a little bit of social networking mixed in as well. The mixing composer on the site lets you work from a basic music package, which covers the basic genres from hip hop to salsa, jazz and rock. From there, you can add in music and effects from ToneMine’s library, the shared community sounds, and your own library. What’s useful about this editor is that you can “Save As” meaning you can create a ringtone, save it, tweak it and save it again without needing to start from scratch.You can enjoy a good amount of ToneMine without creating a profile, but once your profile is created all of your favorite ringtones will be displayed on your profile, but not the ones you’ve made for yourself. Check out the community ringtones to see what’s new and what’s popular. Save good ringtones to your Favorites and add tags.

Push-It Alert

Push-It Alert is a new service that looks to solve a big problem: the dynamical formatting Web content for mobile phone screens. Rather than re-write Web pages in WAP or XML, Push-It uses what it calls “click through” and “call through” capabilities. This is made possible in part because Push-It Alert is, as the title would suggest, an alert service. They offer an API that allows content producers to setup alerts for things like emails, IMs, and RSS feeds. For example, MySpace could use the service to setup a Push-It Alert for new messages, which would then be pushed to user’s phones (similar to Blackberry email) in real-time in a universal format.

Loudtalks

Loudtalks is a voice tool that works from any phone and operates like a walkie-talkie. The idea behind this service is to bring the ease of instant messaging and text messaging to a voice-enabled platform that lets you share, emotion and all, what you really want to say. The tool is totally free and looks much like an instant messaging client, or Skype. You can select a friend you’d like to say something to, and you essentially leave a message. They respond when they’re ready, so there’s not the formality of a phone call, where all parties need to be present in order to participate, but it does still let you “talk” to each other. There’s also an option for voice blasts to multiple friends.

Utterz

Utterz is a new mobile blogging community launched by RPM Communications. With Utterz, you can blog with your cell phone while you’re away from a computer. Within the Utterz network, your profile resembles a Twitter micro-blogging stream and shows all of your entries. These can be sorted by date, rating, and popularity. An utter blog entry can include audio, video, images and text. These can be created online or with your mobile phone. Utterz provides a phone number for you to call in and “speak” your blog entry, which appears as an audio file on your Utterz stream. This number can also be used for listening to Utterz, and responding to another user’s Utterz can be done via mobile phone as well. The Utterz community also has channels where you can participate with other users on a given topic. There are also a handful of widget options for you to plug-in your Utterz updates into existing networks, including TypePad, Blogger, Xanga, MySpace, LiveJournal and Facebook. You can also grab the code for a widget to be placed on your personal website. There are three different widget options that vary in size. The most convenient aspects of Utterz is the number that can be dialed in order to leave a voice blogging entry, expanding the use of its service to those that may not have recording features on their cell phone, and removing other size limitations a mobile user may have for recording and sending an audio file from the hand set. The widgets also offer a good format for distributing Utterz on a cross-platform level.

GoLive! Mobile

Hei, if you are a fan of the Rich Franckin, you should be very happy because GoLive! Mobile has just make downloadable exclusive contents of the American Fighter for your mobile phone: ringtones, wallpapers, video, practically everything to take with you your preferred fighter! Actually, you can download all of these directly from the Rich Franklin Mobile Storefront (http://franklin.golivemobile.com/) or from the American Fighter homepage (actually only US subscribers can access these stuff, but in a near future these objects will be available all over the world). If you don't know who is GoLive! Mobile, it is one of the most important company specialized in sms marketing, billing and content management solutions. Between its customers, it can count in many small businesses listen in the top Fortune 500 corporations that have used its web-based software and API tools. It can also count in many offices all around US and one in the Docklands in London. The Rich Francklin project is based on the Ultimate Pros platform from GoLive! Mobile, a sport mobile marketing and digital right management that permits, is an extremely simple way, to create applications, games, ringtones, mobile fan clubs and other customized content for athletes' fan. If you want to know more about this platform (or want to create something for your branded marketing) simply, contact GoLive! Mobile via their website following one of the link above.

Blynk - free mobile calls and SMS

Today, reading my usual RSS feeds, I've found a very interesting news about a new virtual mobile operator in UK: Blynk. This is not a traditional mobile operator...but it is a FREE one. Yes free: Blynk offers, each month, up to 217 free SMS and 43 minutes of free calling to all its customers. Who pays for these services? ADS. In fact, if you are interested and want a Blynk SIM, you must accept to receive up to 6 ADS MMS /day. Actually, a great number of companies have agreed to sponsor this service...and Blynk has announced the intention of extend its services to other countries. Not bat as service, but there is an age limitation: you can subscribe with Blynk ONLY if you are between 16 and 24 years old. Behind Blynk there are two very important names: Antti Öhrling and Pekka Ala-Pietilä (ex president of Nokia)...so we all hope that this service can really work! A similar idea was implemented some times ago by Virgin Mobile in USA: actually about 330k (of 4,8 million) users agree to receive ADS on own mobile phone in exchange of free call minutes...

Cellit Mobile Marketing

Cellit Mobile Marketing is a premier mobile marketing company that helps small and large companies in reaching their customers in a new way: via mobile phones (text messaging, wap or voice). Cellit Mobile Marketing has convinced many blazoned companies in using their services: Dell, Philips, HSBC, VeriSign, MarieClaire, Sotheby's, Procter and Gamble are just some of them!! Two of the most important services by Cellit Mobile Marketing are House4Cell and CouponZap. CouponZap is a system designed for mobile campaigns of small companies like restaurants, bar, nightclub. It is practically a coupon and promotion service. Via text messaging is possible to distribute advertising and discount coupons to a large quantity of potential customers (if they have opted to receive promotions). A very nice method...it's possible to contact up to 160 million of U.S. subscribers! Using the service is extremely simple: you just need to use the web application on the CouponZap site. Write...then click and send to mobile phones! If you need more information, there is a Nice demo on site that explain you, in a easy way, how the service works. the second service is House4Cell: it's a real estate designed tool. It can help home buyers in receive relevant information via text message immediately. But how it works? first of all, you must be registered with the site to use this service! Then, via the online tool, you can create your listing with photos, maps, descriptions and so on. Each listing has a proper identification code (eg. ANN1). Just put this code and the the phone number where to send sms near the property you are selling. If a buyer is interested in it, he can send an sms to that number with just that code (eg. ANN1). In a few seconds he will receive the sms you have prepared...with also pictures!! a very nice and interesting service...if you need more information, there is a nice demo that just waiting you!!

U-Doo by Wirefly

Time to change your mobile ringtone! But wait...do not spend money in buying the traditional, annoying songs...try something original, totally new! What do you think if your mobile alerts you of a call with your voice and a smiling character on the screen? funny? Well...i'm speaking of the U-Doo by Wirefly, one of the new funny Wirefly ringtones. You can personalize every aspect of your U-Doo: don't like the outfit? no problem, between dozen of different models...surely you will find your preferred one! You can also modify hairstyle, lipstick, hair color, the character itself (select a girl or a boy and so on), eyes, month, skin. Select all the accessories you want your U-Doo wear (like glass, hat and so on)....and when you are satisfied by your U-Doo aspect, add it a voice! You can choose between three different kind of voices: you can record your voice and use with the U-Doo (you can record on-the-fly directly on site), you can use text-to-speech (you just need to write down what you want the U-Doo says) or you can select a pre-recorder phrase...you just need to choose!!! After that...you can choose: you can send it to your phone, send via mail to friends...or upload on your MySpace domain! Here is not possible to do...so...if you want to see my U-Doo working, you should follow the link. U-Doo is a creation of Wirefly, a well known cell phone site.

Pingo - International Phone Card

Pingo is a prepaid calling card service that permits you to save lots of money on long distance calls (also international). Why waste money calling your far friends or family if you can save it in just some clicks (prices are extremely low, see the site for actual rates)? All destination are covered, you can buy cards to use with every nation in the world like Philippine Phone Card or Italy phone card. Using Pingo is extremely simple. First of all, you need an account so,on the Pingo's site, just create your account number (10 digits), your PIN (4 digits) and enter you billing information. Nothing more than this...so you can start using Pingo Services: every time you need to make your long phone call, simply call that number and insert your pin...then the number you want to call (with country code). The call cost will be detracted from your personal Pingo Wallet. There are lots of nice feature that you can associate with your Pingo account: for example you can create sub-accounts (with a different pin) to take under control expenses from particular person (like employers or family members), you can activate the auto-recharge feature (when your wallet is empty, Pingo will charge your credit card automatically to re-fill it), you can use the PINpass feature that permits to register a particular phone (the one you use often for example) in order to not insert your pin at each calls (Pingo recognizes the phone). Remember that if you buy a $20, £20 or €20 you will immediately receive an additional $5 of free call time! Pingo is powered by iBasis, one of the largest international long distance service in the world. Actually, Pingo site is running a very interesting contest: join Qoof.com following the reported link. Pingo.com will pay $5 to the first 250 Pingo usermercial videos posted on Qoof.com (submitting a video is free)

ClearSMS

ClearSMS is a Web-based application that lets you send bulk SMS messages to your customers, contacts, or just about anyone. There's nothing to install and nothing to learn. Open your Web browser and start sending messages. Its industrial-strength, fast, guaranteed. Why ClearSMS? Simple, intuitive web interface Reliable delivery of up to millions of messages Flexible scanning of any telephone number list Powerful, highly tuned messaging engine No installation or configuration required Anytime, anywhere SMS messaging Accessible from any Internet connected PC

AnyWR

Anywr is a web and mobile management system that offers powerful features for managing contacts, calendars, events and communications. Browsers, mobile devices or any other of the over 750 million compatible devices available today can be used to access your data from anywhere. This helps users to easily manage all their every day information and communications. Thanks to the SyncML standard, a huge range of devices and applications can interact with one another.

MScape

mscape The place where you can download, create and share mobile, location–based media. Now that handheld GPS devices are here, the inventors at HP Labs are moving beyond personal navigation: we are expanding the world around us with a simple tool that builds compelling interactive experiences that you control as you move from place to place.

MimeCity

MimeCity is a new service that enables you to share and exchange content over the web. The service can be accessed from a PC or a mobile phone and you can view and contribute content to user-generated events. You can create your own event and invite your friends and colleagues to view and contribute. MimeCity events can be private and access limited to a list of people that you choose. Alternatively, you can create a public event and share it with the connected world. http://www.mimecity.com

Gumiyo

Gumiyo The first mobile-to-mobile buyers and sellers e-commerce platform on the net, Gumiyo’s goal is to connect you instantly, no matter where your location, to the goods you need or to the people who want what you’ve got to sell.