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QR Codes are very popular in Asia. Japan, South Corea… are countries where the usage of these QR Codes, as a way to access mobile internet information  mainly but not only, is so extended that you can even find magazines exclusively dedicated to these QR Codes.

As usual, Europe and more concretely Spain are two or three steps behind Asian market. Fortunately, little by little these codes are appearing in Occidental countries.  Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia published last weekend what can be considered “The first published QR Code in Spanish market”. Not very useful, but interesting movement after all.

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Mobile Web browsing is the main issue that must be solved in order to achieve mobile web massive usage. Solutions like Opera Mini help to solve it, but Why do I have to install an additional mobile browser in my phone? Don’t get me wrong. I love Opera Mini and its features, but some people don’t. MOWSER to the rescue!!!

MOWSER proposes another approach to non mobile adapted web sites. It transcodes web content to a format able to be rendered by mobile phone browsers. Results may vary depending on the site being rendered, but average results are good enough to recommend the service.

Along with page transcoding, it allows to search main search engines using keywords like ys (Yahoo! Search), gs (Google Search), etc..

Definitely a recommendable service!!!

Via Series60 Tips, All About Symbian
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After months of hard working, efforts and preparation, we are proud to announce SevenClick’s Inauguration Show!!!!

Wednesday the 26th is the day. And 18:30 the time. The show will take place in SevenClick’s headquarters, in Zaragoza. With this show, SevenClick wants to present its innovative perspective of mobile world sharing SevenClick’s vision of how a technology company should be. During the event, SevenClick’s CEO, Daniel Vecino Castel, will present the company to the public audience revealing what, who, how, where, when and any other question you may have about SevenClick. As an advance, we would like to say that the show will amaze you.

If you want to join us this special day, you are welcomed. Send a mail to our show manager or call +34 902 172 272  to book assistance.

Recently, some rumours of a future GPS chip placed inside the iPhone have spread along the Web. Whether true or false, any user who would like to have this feature will have to wait until may 2008 (when the 3G upgrade is supposed to be).
Unless you download and start using the new Navizon virtual GPS navigator which is now available for iPhone too (it is also available for BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Java).
The application is designed to use the WiFi hotspots and phone towers of its sorroundings to triangulate your location (with an estimated error or 70 – 100 meters) and paint it using Google Maps. The system also uses data gathered from other Navizon users who have regular GPS devices.
Navizon has a trial period of two weeks but after it you have to pay 25$ for a time unlimited licence.

More info at Navizon website

Presentations of iPhone accross Europe has become less brilliant, since London’s show. Yesterday, an authorized spokesman of France Telecom announced that Orange will distribute iPhone in France. Further information were not provided, so we only have last rumour from TechCrunch saying that the price will be 300 euros and the launch date will be November 29. The only confirmed point is that Orange will not subsidize the iPhone.

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Brithish love SMS more than someone else. They send an average of up to 100 SMS per month!!! Well, I think I could know somebody who send 100 sms per month, but… this measure said that every british send that amount of SMS. That compares with an average of 65 for Germans and 32 for Americans.
This data comes from a worlwide survey of 10000 mobile phone uesrs by the agency Universal McCann. The study also showed that the British are more inclined to use their mobile phones for texting than for talking. UK mobile owners dedicate less than half their mobile usage to direct conversation.

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This on-line mobile oriented newspaper comes from Argentina and has been developed by Darío Gallo and Pablo Mancini. As you can figure it is written in Spanish.

It was specially designed to be read from any mobile phone, PDA or laptop. When read from a mobile device, an special version can be browsed.

The star feature is that every piece of news can not be no longer than 20 words and are written by a set of collaborating journalists. These journalist can generate information from anyware and with any device with connection to the internet and publish their news categorized in various sections and sorted by a tag system.

Visit 20 Words website

The deal involving T-Mobile and Apple for selling iPhone in Germany has been confirmed this morning on a press conference by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, and T-Mobile’s CEO Hamid Akavan.

The iPhones will be available exclusively in T-Mobile shops from November 9, at the price would be 399 euros. Monthly fees has not been published yet. Hamid Akhavan declined give details on revenue sharing with Apple, as O2 did past Tuesday, or a sales estimation.

After this announcement, a similar one is expected with Orange as partner, tomorrow in France, which is the next stage of this week European tournée of Steve Jobs.

Via Reuters

Spanish newspaper ABC claims to have been informed that iPhone won’t be for sale in Spain until May 2008. By that moment, Telefonica will commercialise a new generation of 3G iPhones.

While having to wait until then is very discouraging, at least we know that a 3G iPhone is coming. Although we should take this news carefully.

Via ABC.es

Google has announced officially the availability of AdSense for Mobile, as we advanced recently. As they report in a press release, the service is just an extension of current AdSense.

So that, AdSense for Mobile is now available to all mobile publishers in 13 countries worldwide: US, England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, India, China, and Japan (available in the coming weeks).

For more information, visit the Google AdSense blog.

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