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As NTT DoCoMo claims in a press release, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and Google Inc. jointly announced that they formed a partnership that includes providing search services, search-related advertisement and potential applications to i-mode™ users.

With this agreement, Google claims to better fulfill their mission of “organizing the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”, since they add their services the 48 million mobile Internet users currently subscribed to DoCoMo’s users.

But the agreement don’t stop at present, but puts a look at future services. Explicitly, they talk about new mobile marketing services for i-mode and bringing Android based handsets to the Japanese market.

This agreement is pretty logical because Google and NTT DoCoMo were already members of the Open Handset Alliance, leaded by Google.

Link NTTDoCoMo

As third generation mobile phones are becoming more and more popular, many of the actual multimedia services are launching (or upgrading) their mobile versions.

The latest one to do that, is the video giant Youtube, which is expanding its mobile video collection. In fact, the size of this collection will grow from a few thousands to tens of millions videos.

Moreover, Youtube is expanding the functionality available in its mobile service, by allowing the user to rate and comment videos.

The point of this expansion, is to reach the estimate 100 million users worldwide who are using 3G “smart phones” and the new users who will join this community in the next months.

Via Cellular News.

Yoigo, backed by TeliaSonera, is the fourth carrier in Spanish market. They launched one year ago. Their motto is something like “truly truth” when it comes to communication, specially with their clients.

They claim to have the clearest and cheapest price plans in the market. In order to prove it and as part of an agressive offer, they included free calls between Yoigo subscriber without any kind of limitation.

Three months after this unprecedented offer, Yoigo changes the rules in a completely unilateral decision. From now on, the free calls are limited to those with a duration less than 1 hour.

Yoigo’s sources have informed that this decision was not been pre-planned and is a consecuence of abusive use by a little percentage of users.

For sure, 99% of calls do not take more than one hour, so price plans are not substantially changed. But, this is not the best way to prove their own motto. In fact, this issue has made a noticeable impact in the Spanish blogosphere.

Via error500

This week has been quite bussy for the Nokia Beta Labs peoble as they have released two new beta services: Location Tagger and Mobile Site Widgets.

Location Tagger.

This small application, which runs on some high-end S60 3rd edition Nokia devices, allows the user to tag pictures previously captured from the Camera application and add geographical coordinates from GPS. This information is stored in the EXIF header of the pictures.

The next step is quite obvious. The user will be able to send the pictures, usually to any of the picture upload most famous services (Flickr, Panoramio,…). If this service is integrated with Google Earth,l ike for instance Picasa, the pictures will be displayed in a map showing the user’s position, from they were taken.

Read more info at Nokia Location Tagger web site.

Mobile Site Widgets.

This set of applications is built on top of Mobile Web Server technology. Their aim is to run some applications on the PC showing information about the phone and provide access to some features like SMS sending. The goal of these widgets is to integrate the mobile phone into the mobile user’s “desktop experience” by providing him / her with improved UI features of the PC (screen & keyboard).

Moreover, this platform can be extended by the user by developing additional widgets. Here is the with some tutorials and how-tos.Read more info at My Mobile Site Widgets web site.

SevenClick, company of TB·Solutions group specialized in development and consultancy services in the field of mobile information technology, has developed the first mobile fleet management system for the iPhone, the successful Apple mobile phone.

The project has been requested by PSP SL, a leader company in Fleet localization and management services. This is a strategic bet for their MobileFleet solution, and will undoubtedly be the banner of this platform during upcoming months.

MobileFleet iPhone edition allows real time fleet management and monitoring, allowing any kind of vehicle, even motorbikes. This way, MobileFleet can locate any vehicle through Apple’s mobile device, using vector maps and satellite pictures.

The system is able to notify about the state of the vehicle, obtaining information such as speed, mileage, etc.. It can also generate immediate alerts in case of robbery. Especially important is the report generation module. This module allows to obtain reports with activity periods, alert reporting, start-stop actions, etc.. All of this taking advantage of the iPhone power and easiness.

MobileFleet iPhone Edition was released last Tuesday, 29 January, during Telefonica Movilforum Show, obtaining a satisfactory response from the attendees and several commercial contracts for PSP SL, at an international level.

This leading development by SevenClick, strengthens its strategy of specialization in software development services in the field of mobile technology, especially regarding the widely known iPhone. SevenClick will present shortly iPhone based solutions for key sectors like Banking, Public Agencies and Health.

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More info about MobileFleet

PSP, a Spanish company specialized in GPS fleet management have presented the iPhone version of its star product, MobileFleet. This way, PSP completes MobileFleet offer, strengthening the mobile client with this brand new version of the web part. Taking advantage of iPhone unique features regarding interactivity, user experience and web integration, SevenClick has developed one of the first fleet control applications for this device.

Let’s take a look at what MobileFleet offers.

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Some days ago we found this very interesting advance on what is coming on Windows Mobile 7. First of all, to say that WM 7 has still a long path until it becomes a final release, that is planned to ship by 2009.

All the review is based on an internal document of Microsoft that seems to been from past summer. It includes several references to iPhone. Just the confirmation that nowadays it’s the reference when it comes to user interface.

The key points of the new user interface are touch (multitouch, indeed) and motion gestures. Of course, when we talk about touch we mean finger touch.

For motion gestures implementation it will not use a complicated series of gyroscopes and accelerometers. Instead, it will use the camera on the phone to detect motions and create appropriate actions.

Moreover, WM7 will have dramatically improved visuals, very similar to Windows Vista. Look at the screenshots in the InsideMicrosoft’s post.

Well… this seems very cool. But we’ll have to wait at least one year to see what is actually released. Then we’ll see if all this stuff is bundled.

Microsoft will need all this – and, by 2009, maybe even more – in order not to lose momentum in smartphone market. iPhone and HTC’s involvement on OHA can make Windows Mobile fade away during this year.

It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Microsoft trying to bring forward as soon as possible the announcement of Windows Mobile 7.

Link InsideMicrosoft

Nokia and Trolltech ASA announced on Monday that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will acquire Trolltech, a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks. Nokia will offer NOK 16 per share in cash.

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Google Android team says that due to a new version of the SDK to be launched during the following days (weeks?), and in order to allow developers take advantage of this improvements (nothing about new functionality), the Android Developer Challenge’s deadline has been extended.

Here is the updated time line:

• April 14, 2008: Deadline to submit applications for judging
• May 5, 2008: Announcement of the 50 first round winners, who will be eligible for the final round
• June 30, 2008: Deadline for the 50 winners of the first round to submit for the final round
• July 21, 2008: Announcement of the grand prize winner and runner-up

We don’t know if the mentioned reasons are true. We don’t have to think the opposite. But it all sound strange. Maybe lack of participation? I don’t think so. Probably an effort to enlarge the hype around Android is a better explanation. But don’t get me wrong. We are delighted with everything surrounding Android. As well as you are. Don’t you?

Link Android Blog

We are proud to announce the technology partnership between SevenClick and IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards). This way, SevenClick will provide technical support to the nominees, during the ceremony event, taking place 11 February in Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. With this partnership, SevenClick joins the IMGA partner list including Buongiorno!, Qualcomm, NVidia, AMD, N·Gage, Adobe, Jamba, etc.. Check the full list in IMGA official site (link below).

SevenClick is giving full coverage to the award ceremony, presenting the nominees and publishing significant information related to the ceremony and the awards. Check our blog for new information.

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA), launched in 2004, is the leading worldwide platform for innovation in Mobile Entertainment. The Awards recognize and award the most innovative and creative games for mobile phones. Each year mobile gaming studios, individual developers, students and researchers are challenged to come up with new ideas for tomorrow’s mobile games. Each year around 400 developers from over 42 countries participate in the IMGA.

The IMGA Ceremony will be held during the Mobile World Congress on 11 February 2008. The IMGA brings together industry leaders and top talent in Mobile Entertainment and exhibits the most innovative Mobile Entertainment Games and Applications to a broad audience worldwide.

SevenClick is specialized in development and consultancy services in the field of mobile information technology. Its major clients are companies that belong to critical sectors such as Banking, Public Agencies, Logistics, Health and Media.

The company’s strategic lines include technologies like RFID/NFC, iPhone, Google Android, Location Based Services and mobile software developments based on JME, Windows Mobile and Symbian.

Link International Mobile Gaming Awards
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