Verizon Wireless Gets Mobi!

Verizon Wireless has partnered with Mobitween, a leading developer and publisher of Flash®-based games for the mobile and online worlds, to create Mobigamz, a Flash® Lite™ based mobile gaming portal that allows customers to download, play, rate, and post high scores.

With Mobigamz, Verizon Wireless customers can choose the hottest Flash games from a current catalogue of sport, arcade, puzzle, and board categories. Mobigamz are specifically designed for mobile phones and are very intuitive to play, with simple joystick-keystroke interactivity, multiple levels and game session storing.

According to Ryan Hughes, vice president of digital media programming for Verizon, the Mobigamz portal will give Verizon customers “even more ways to satisfy their appetites for compelling games they can play on-the-go.”   Verizon Wireless Get It Now customers can purchase and download 

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It’s Time to Rock The Vote

Rock the Vote has launched a mobile site to help make voter registration more fun, easy and accessible for young voters — and to help get as many people to the polls as possible on Election Day.  The site can be found on all U. S. Internet enabled cell phones at http://wap.rockthevote.com. 

Anyone who gives their name and email address on the mobile site receives specific instructions on how to complete their voter application.  Site visitors get up-to-the-minute information and images on hot button political  Read the rest of this entry »

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MobiShark

Okay, how’s this for cool…  Blackberry users can now use their BlackBerry as a wireless modem, thanks to a great software application called MobiShark.  If you have a BlackBerry and a Laptop, MobiShark lets you configure your BlackBerry to be used as a modem - so you can be surfing the Internet from wherever you are on your laptop.

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This just in from The Mobi Blog…

According to a recent LA Times story reported in TheMobiBlog, women with long fingernails generally are not big fans of the iPhone’s touch screen…Since long fingernails can impede their ability to “touch” the screens in the normal course, this has some women crying “foul” on Apple!  One woman even accused Apple of being misogynistic for excluding a female friendly stylus from its recent design…

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My Mobi Diet techniques…

Every day it seems there’s more and more stuff available to enhance our mobile lives  …Take my diet, for example…(please!)  

Seriously… I’m on this diet… and every day I’m finding more potential features on my cell phone that I can use to help me succeed to shed the excess lbs… 

Let’s start with my REAL TONE.   Real tones are basically highly personalized sounds that alert you when your cell phone rings… They can be funny sounds or music clips, famous quotes or funny jokes, or any personalized recording of your choice.  For example, right now, every time the phone rings, I have a snarky recording of me reminding myself: “Keep your head out of the fridge fat-head!” A little self humiliation in my real tone might be just the thing I need to keep my calorie count down!  I’ll let you know how it goes - 

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MobiTV - A Mobi Pioneer!

MobiTV is a California-based company founded *all the way back* in 2003 that delivers TV content over mobile networks… In just 5 short years, it has successfully sparked a new market for wireless entertainment services, winning carriage on more than 15 carrier networks, including Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Alltel, Telus, Rogers and Bell Canada (among others) — and has signed up more than 4m subscribers!  In the last 10 months, it’s subscription base is growing faster than ever…Charlie Nooney, chairman and CEO of MobiTV, believes they are “on the cusp of mass market acceptance for mobile entertainment in North America.” They see a bright future for “user-driven programming, interactivity and connected media experiences” - which is no surprise, given the direction that the Internet is going these days…Right now, MobiTV has near-unlimited channel capacity with more than 50 channels currently available in the US.Rapid adoption rates have certainly been helped by the fact that they offer access to shows like 30 Rock and The Office on mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »

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Welcome Mobi Superheros!

My 13 year old son Wade is super excited to know that Glu Mobile is planning to release a new mobile game that brings Superman and Batman together on cell phones the world over… For the first time ever, the “Superman/Batman mobile game will see the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader fight crime side by side…,” 

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My Apple iPhone Review

Sorry for my long delay in getting this review out to you… but I wanted to live with my new iPhone for a while so I could objectively test whether it would live up to all the hype… including my own.  9 days in and I’m happy to report — it does…  Believe the hype! Let’s start with the obvious. The new iPhone is beautiful. It has a sleek design and the user interface is so much fun to use.  There’s not another phone out there that can compete on this front.  But beyond the splendid design, it just works really well.  The phone is easy to use and to navigate. It comes with a great set of stereo earbuds with an integrated mic.  I use it all day long.  The earbuds have a button to let you answer calls, put calls on hold, and answer or decline to answer incoming calls.  It also lets you advance your audios and videos on the fly.  Then there’s the “pinch”… If you essentially pinch your fingers on the screen you can zoom in or out of any content you are viewing.  So cool!  The screen is bold and clear.  The resolution is lovely.  The icons are easy to understand and maneuver… and they look cool to boot.  Then there’s the virtual keyboard.  This definitely takes a little getting used to - but I like it.  Every once in a while I’ll hit the wrong key with my pleasantly plump fingers - but hey, I used to do that with my Blackberry too… No big deal.  I’m getting better with the keyboard everyday.  The other thing I love about the new iPhone is Visual Voice Mail. You can actually see your voicemail listings on your iPhone and play the messages back in any order you like… That means, you don’t need to listen to a million annoying messages just to get to the one you’re really dying to hear. Cool beans! But wait, there’s more.  There’s the YouTube videos and the frikkin’ iPod and the camera.  I think I’m getting faint!  There is so much power packed into this little mini-computing device, I wonder if  I can finally toss my jagunda laptop… I think the day is not too far off.  And now for the last bit of iPhone goodness - the App Store.  A never ending array of applications to expand my iPhone experience into new and unchartered realms every day.  This is pure heaven wrapped up in a phone.  Get it. You’ll love it. 

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