Archive for January, 2010

Apple launches iPad, a big version of the iPhone, with iBooks

Today Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, revealed its long-awaited tablet device, the Apple iPad. Steve Jobs revealed the Apple iPad today, its much-awaited tablet computer (see  live notes on TechCrunch). Jobs positions it as a third computing device between a laptop and a smartphone. It is geared towards the “key tasks” of Web browsing, email, [ READ MORE ]

Radio 1212 collects 227.258 EUR via SMS donations on 4666

Radio 1212, the joint action of the 5 major Flemish radio stations JoeFM, MNM, Q-Music, Radio2 and Studio Brussel, has marked a historical record in mobile fundraising in Belgium. On Friday January 22nd 2010, between 8.00 and 20.00hr,  exactly 227.258 SMS have been sent to the shortcode 4666, equaling as many euros for the victims [ READ MORE ]

Radio 1212 supports ‘SMS 4666′ campaign

Five Flemish radio stations are joining forces to support Haïti. Tomorrow January 22nd between 8.00 and 20.00, Radio2, Studio Brussel, MNM, Q Music and Joe FM will broadcast together as Radio 1212.  Main goal is to give visibility to the different campaigns to support the victims of the Haïti earthquake.  The listeners will be stimulated [ READ MORE ]

Apple to replace Google Search by Microsoft’s Bing

We’ve all noticed how the competition between Apple and Google has grown more intens over the past few months.  Especially with the recent launch of Google’s own smartphone, the Nexus One, it has become very serious.  Now it seems that other web giant Microsoft is considered as the ‘lesser evil’.  According to the magazine BusinessWeek, Apple is [ READ MORE ]

SMS action for Haiti: already more than 100.000 euro collected

Press release On Monday January 18th at 10.00, the customers of mobile operators KPN Group Belgium/BASE, Mobistar and Proximus have already donated more than € 100 000 to the victims of the earthquake in Haïti. Until January 31st at midnight, customers can donate 1 euro by sending a sms message to the number 4666, containing the message “yes” or the code of the [ READ MORE ]

SMS 4666: MobileWeb and operators join forces to help Haiti earthquake victims

MobileWeb.be and the Belgian mobile operators Proximus, Mobistar and Base have joined forces to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Tuesday January 12th, a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the scale of Richter has hit the poor western province of Haiti, a region of 2,2 million inhabitants.  The [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Internet use increases with 148% in 2009

In 2009, the use of the mobile internet has increased with 148% worldwide.  Mobile devices now represent 1,3% of all web pageviews in North America, with Apple’s iPhone operating system accounting for 65,1% of mobile web traffic in the region.  Google’s Android OS is second at 12,4%, followed by Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS at [ READ MORE ]

Nexus One reflects Google’s advertising ambitions

While the Nexus One is attracting most of the attention, the online store may prove to be the more significant announcement, giving Google and its partners a direct-to-consumer channel to sell hardware, multimedia content, Android Market applications and accessories. “The goal of this new consumer channel is to provide an efficient way to connect Google’s [ READ MORE ]

One sale every 2 seconds on eBay Mobile

eBay Mobile is doing great: in 2009, there was the sale of a product every 2 seconds via the mobile version of the popular auction site, good for half a billion US dollars worth of transactions. Especially Christmas is a good period: Xmas 2009 sold three times as much  as Xmas 2008.  Mobile users from more [ READ MORE ]

First game app for iPhone, developped by MobileWeb

MobileWeb.be has launched a new iPhone app, called the Missing Number Game.  This is the first game app that we have developped, mostly to further extend our knowledge and expertise of the development of mobile apps and the submission into the App Store.  The game itself consists of an IQ test, where you have to [ READ MORE ]

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