The news that Blyk is continuing "the rigorous testing of its technical
platforms" emerged this week. Which in effect means it has missed its launch
deadline of mid-2007...More
Vodafone has tied up with satnav supplier, TomTom. The system comes about
following TomTom's recent acquisition [2005] of a small Scottish company,
Applied Generics...More
Vodafone's Vietnamese plans hit wall
No sooner had Vodafone expressed an interest in moving into the Vietnamese
mobile comms sector than its government has started to back-peddle over selling
off stakes...More
Deltathree uses Pontis' marketing platform
Real-time marketing will help US based VoIP supplier, Deltathree, boost its
service for owners of a new range of dual-mode handsets from Panasonic...More
Vodafone plans Vietnamese invasion
Having cracked India, Vodafone is now turning its attention towards Vietnam, according to a
report in the Vietnam Economic Times. The company has recently opened an
office in Hanoi...More
Snippets
Portugal Telecom chairman, Henrique Granadeiro, told
a Portuguese newspaper, Diario Economico, that,
"PT is not a seller of Vivo, as we keep repeating. Our
focus is an operational turnround." He was responding to
a report in the FT that Telefonica had offered
around €3 billion ($4 billion) for its partner's 32.33
per cent holding in the Brazilian mobile phone network
operator, Vivo.
The initial popularity of the Apple IPhone has spurred
attempts to provide it with a business email client.
Visto
and
Synchronica are both rumoured to be developing such
a product.
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Honda F1 Mobile
For a site described as "One of the most exciting and informative mobile WAP sites in the automotive sector to date", you'd expect something special.
Sadly Honda's F1 WAP site is hugely disappointing.
So what does it offer? Video clips from the last race at Monaco? Results and summary of performance from the Monaco GP?
Predictions for the next race? None of the above. What it does have are three pathetic F1 style ringtones and three wallpapers showing Jenson Button plus Rubens Barrichello.
The best part is probably the chance to win a tour of the Honda F1 factory in
GB.
For a company which offers state of the art technology, you might expect Honda to have tied location based techniques to displaying where the nearest Honda garage is located.
But, no. Surfers find the nearest Honda dealer by typing in their postcode.
Unfortunately the site's provider – the Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)– seems to think the site is industry leading.
This site definitely does nothing for the Honda brand. But at least it wasn't foolish enough to utilise a dotmobi (.mobi) address for the site.
http://mobile.honda.co.uk
