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Texas Gulf Bank introduces business and consumer mobile banking
Texas Gulf Bank, a community bank with seven locations along the Texas Gulf Coast, launched its business and consumer mobile banking solution – TGB Mobile. Through its free mobile banking service, Texas Gulf Bank customers will now be able to access real-time banking information through their cell phone, smartphone, PDA, or other mobile devices.
TGB Mobile [...]
Sybase 365, TNZI to launch joint IPX voice service
Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, a player in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, and Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI), a division of Telecom New Zealand, a full-service telecommunications provider, have announced a new partnership for the availability of a joint IPX voice service offering.
The companies are working together to offer a voice service [...]
Artificial Life, RDF Digital USA introduce interactive TV show in US
RDF Digital USA and Artificial Life recently announced a collaboration to produce an interactive animated TV show entitled ‘Sleuths’.
Implementing Artificial Life’s MoPA-TV system (‘mobile participation television’ that enables live TV broadcasters to support real-time viewer interaction with their shows using their mobile phones), ‘Sleuths’ is being promoted as the ‘first’ television show in the United [...]
BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone to be launched in Spain
Orange and Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones.
The smartphone provides mobile access to e-mail, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook and MySpace) and features a tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable typing. It also features [...]
Airtel offers 1 cent/min call rates from US to India
Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom services provider headquartered in India, has launched a calling rate of 1 cent a minute on its online calling card service Airtelcallhome.com.
The company believes this will enable NRIs (Non-resident Indians) in the US to call friends and family back in India at competitive rates in the market.
Airtel has also launched [...]
AT&T uveils integrated devices for texting, e-mail
AT&T has announced a fresh lineup of smartphones and quick messaging phones that are aimed at making it easier for customers to message with friends and family and manage their business and personal lives on-the-go.
In the smartphone category, AT&T debuted the Nokia E71x and the Samsung Propel Pro smartphones.
In addition, the Samsung Impression and Samsung [...]
Metavante, Monitise Americas launch text message banking
Monitise Americas and Metavante have announced the launch of text message banking services.
The service will allow consumers to use text messaging to obtain any-time balance information on their accounts.
It will also enable consumers to set alerts, to notify them when their balance is low or when their payroll deposit has arrived, for example.
Monitise Americas is [...]
Ericsson launches Pixl8r and Social Media Portal
Ericsson has announced the launch of a social networking portfolio for mobile network operators, the Pixl8r initiative and the Social Media Portal.
The technologies together offer simplified sharing of user-generated content between friends across diverse networks.
The Pixl8r drive is an open-standard solution that allows photo sharing sites to interact in real time. With Pixl8r, mobile subscribers [...]
Eagle Mobile selects Telenity’s advanced messaging applications
Telenity, a provider of next generation converged services platforms and applications, has announced that Eagle Mobile, an Albanian mobile operator, has chosen Telenity’s advanced messaging solutions including Canvas SMSC, Short Message Service Centre and Canvas USSD Service Centre to handle its messaging traffic and enable the introduction of new USSD and SMS-based services.
Telenity’s Canvas Converged [...]
