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Last modified: | Mobile Insight Vol: 8 Issue 320 June 5th 2006TTPCom acquired by Motorola
Another plucky British cellular specialist, TTPCom, has suffered the same fate as handset manufacturer, Sendo. It looks set to be acquired by handset giant, Motorola.
TTPCom was essentially a provider of low cost handset design platforms.
The company's GSM protocol stacks have been utilised by vendors as diverse as RIM for the Blackberry and LG for the KG800 Chocolate handset.
TTPCom had developed AJAR as a cellular platform which separated the diverse functions which a handset performs – making it much easier to port applications to low cost cellular devices.
The company had products covering all the major future GSM/W-CDMA technologies including HSUPA and DVB-H. Ron Garriques, president, of Motorola's Mobile Devices has welcomed the employees of TTPCom to Motorola and look forward to a quick and seamless integration upon closing."
If Mobile Insight were a Motorola competitor, we'd be worried.
The full Inquirer story ... Motorola swallows another Brit Cellular firm IXI Ogo is BlueberryAs predicted last week, a new initiative to take on the RIM Blackberry and provide mobile email to the masses has been launched by IXI Mobile with its data-only Ogo cellular handheld. The Ogo was launched initially in the USA by AT&T Wireless - which is now Cingular Wireless. It's also on offer in Switzerland and Turkey. In Germany a partnership between Vodafone and 1&1, offers the Ogo with a flat rate data charge of 9.99 Euros per month. The difference is that from now IXI will be able to offer Synchronica's gateway software which provides – among other things – 'push' email. The software uses SyncML to communicate with the Beast's Exchange server or Sun's Java Enterprise system.
Crucially, Synchronica says,
"As the SyncML Gateway is based
entirely on the open industry
standards: - SyncML (OMA DS);
and Push IMAP, Synchronica
believes that this holds it safe
from issues related to software
patents." The trouble with the Ogo in
the UK, however, will be
obtaining a data only SIM card
which is attached to a flat rate
data tariff. It will appeal,
however, to those who think a
mobile phone is for making voice
calls and not for reading your
emails.
The full Inquirer story ... http://www.theinq.com/?article=32100"> Vodafone looks to advertisingMuch as expected, Vodafone announced that it will it create a new division – the New Businesses unit headed by Thomas Geitner. This will concentrate on the area of fixed/mobile convergence. And hopefully pull Vodafone out of its current financial mire. (It lost £) All off the three new areas identified by Vodafone’s New Business will fall under the general heading of Mobile Plus. The first area is dead simple. In Germany, the company will start the ball rolling by offering customers xDSL services through Arcor. So there’s no sign of it buying up established ISPs, then. As predicted, the company also intends to build on its Vodafone Zuhause (Germany) and Vodafone Casa (Italy) ‘home zone’ offerings. But it’s hard to see what the company means by saying it will focus "on the integration of the mobile, PC and the Internet at the application level, offering seamless interoperability of services." That sounds as if it wants to become the next IBM. The most curious comment is that it wants to introduce "advertising based services and business models that customers will view as the most appealing and acceptable." So that’s free calls for business cheapskates prepared to tolerate adverts rather than for impoverished students as Virgin Mobile USA envisages. It has also declared its intention to "deliver strong growth in emerging markets." The question is … how?The full Inquirer story ... No big surprises in Vodafone future outlines www.vodafone.com Ericsson rebrands PortsmouthTourists entering Portsmouth last weekend, could be forgiven for thinking it had been renamed Ericsson. The Swedish telecoms giant's name was plastered all over the famous British port. This feat turns out to be the handiwork of one Dave 'Brand it' Curl, who managed to get the Ericsson (and Sony Ericsson) emblems onto everything in sight. We're not just talking banners on hospitality suites, the Ericsson name was on the passenger ferry and on old, abandoned forts which formerly protected this naval port. The piece de resistance was a banner trailed behind a light aircraft.
This was all because Ericsson had a yacht in a race around Portsmouth harbour. You wouldn't have known that the actual race itself was sponsored by another Swedish firm, Volvo.
The net result? Well, actually the Ericsson finished fifth (but not last). As they say here in Blighty – "It's not the winning that matters, it's the taking part."
Professional to the last, Curl even handed intrepid Mobile Insight editor, Tone 'Call me skipper' Dennis, a press release aboard a small yacht which was shadowing the race vessel.
Mobile Insight predicts that Curl's time will be taken up announcing customer wins as a result of the event. Vodafone is tipped as a hot favourite here.
The full Inquirer story ...Portsmouth rebranded by Ericsson WAP Insight loses Derby betContinuing a long-standing belief that betting on horse races is an ideal application for a WAP phone, WAP Insight managed to pick a horse that came second in Saturday's Derby race. The event is sponsored by Vodafone. You'd have thought by now that it would be easy to place a bet on a horse using you mobile phone. Surely you could raise a stake by accepting multiple reverse billed SMS messages? Not as far as we can see. Several of the betting sites available from the Orange WAP portal only enable gamblers to set up an account via email. Luckily Blue Square allowed us to sign up with them over the phone. It was then possible to surf the Blue Square WAP site and back Dragon Dancer at 66:1. It' s actually possible to bet that the horse will come in one of the top places (Each way). So WAP Insight could feasibly have won some serious money on Saturday. Sadly Blue Square's opening offer only worked if you backed a horse to win. So we did. And it didn't win (quite). The mobile Internet still has a long way to go. It would have been far simpler to have just spoken to a bookie by phone. The full Inquirer story ... INQ fails to win Vodafone Derby http://www.bluesq.com/wap SnippetsVirgin Mobile USA is aiming to give susbscribers free calls if they agree to watch advertisements and respond to them. www.virginmobileusa.com In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)This week Daily Telegraph - Alex Media companies are finally getting the hang of the mobile Internet. British national newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, is offering its humorous carton, Alex, to all those with a WAP phone. More to the point, the site even has an advert. The site's creator is Graphico. You can get the cartoons by texting Alex to 82088. Luckily the Telegraph Web site has a page which explains how you can pay for things on the WAP site. It includes instructions for how to pay via Paypal and Bango. Apparently this works for subscribers on international GSM networks who can't pay via reverse premium rate SMS. http://mobilealex.telegraph.co.uk.
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