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MapQuest brings mobile turn-by-turn navigation directly to mobile handsets

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mapquest.pngMapQuest, in partnership with Telmap, announced that the newest version of its voice-guided, GPS-enabled wireless application, MapQuest Navigator 5.0, is now widely available to consumers through a new direct-to-consumer storefront on MapQuest.com. Customers, including the 50 million monthly MapQuest.com users1, who sign up for new version 5.0 between now and December 31, 2007 can download the application directly to their handset and purchase the service for the promotional price of $4.99 per month for the life of the subscription.

In addition, MapQuest Navigator 5.0 includes feature enhancements such as live traffic, gas price and station locator, and City’s Best ratings from AOL CityGuide.

Originally posted on November 19, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

mig33 mobile social network swells to 2 million users in just three months

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mig33.pngmig33, a global mobile Internet community, revealed that its growth has accelerated to more than 20,000 new sign ups a day and its total user base has now soared above to more than 8 million in 200 countries around the world.

This user base has created more than 165,000 chat rooms for conversations among friends around the block or across the globe. Users have uploaded more than 3 million unique scrapbook photos and 20,000 new images a day circulate through the network. Collectively, the user base sends more than 34 million messages every day.

“Our success represents the future of mobile social networking,” said Steven Goh, CEO and co-founder of mig33. “We’re attracting tens of thousands of new consumers every day to mobile social networking because they can carry their network of friends and family wherever they go. They aren’t limited to having the social networking experience on their computer only.”

mig33 works on most mobile phones, even basic models, regardless of carrier, and creates an instant global mobile community experience to share with existing and new friends. The technology was built for the mobile phone, making mig33 an integrated and easy way to access mobile instant communications around the globe.

Originally posted on November 19, 2007 @ 2:02 pm

LetsTalk and Mobicious partner to provide single source for mobile content and applications

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letstalk4.pngLetsTalk has partnered with Mobicious to give customers a one-stop shop for all their mobile needs. With the partnership, customers can visit letstalk.mobicious.com to customize their cell phones with a vast selection of games, videos, ringtones, wallpapers, texting applications and more. The Mobicious integration allows LetsTalk customers to download, rate and share new applications and services and also create their own ringtones and wallpapers.

Originally posted on November 15, 2007 @ 5:11 pm

MTV Networks launches mobile social network ‘Con3xion’ for MTV Tr3s community

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MTV Networks is working with Intercasting Corporation, a mobile social networking company, and its award- winning platform, ANTHEM, to develop a mobile social network around MTV Tr3s. The Latino focused mobile social network, to be called Con3xion, also marks the first time Intercasting has partnered with a major entertainment company to develop a mobile social networking initiative. MTVN and Intercasting will work together in the coming months to develop and launch mobile social networking initiatives for additional MTVN properties.

MTV Tr3s is the most-widely distributed TV network dedicated to super- serving today’s bicultural Latino youth. The ANTHEM platform will enable MTV Tr3s to launch the mobile social network and offer an incredibly functional and simple user interface for users to easily view photos, send and receive messages, post comments, search profiles and more, all while on the go. MTV Tr3s plans to extend its community functionality to the web in the near future.

In addition to enabling entertainment properties to easily create social networking initiatives for the mobile platform, ANTHEM also enables wireless carriers the option to provide a bevy of web-based community and social networking sites for subscribers. It is available to social networking site providers, major brands and entertainment companies interested in developing mobile social networking communities.

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Originally posted on November 14, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

Yahoo! introduces mobile search in Latin America

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onesearch.pngYahoo! Inc. announced the availability of Yahoo! oneSearch beta for Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Beginning today, consumers in Latin America are able to access the industry’s leading mobile search experience with localized content presented in Spanish and Portuguese. This announcement continues Yahoo!’s momentum by further increasing the global reach of oneSearch and reinforcing the company’s strong leadership in the mobile industry, and comes on the heels of a partnership with Telefonica announced in October.

Yahoo! oneSearch is an innovative search service explicitly designed to serve the needs of mobile users by delivering results directly in the first screen and thereby removing the need for consumers to navigate through a sea of links to PC Web sites to find the information they want. OneSearch improves consumers’ search experience on mobile devices by integrating content from a variety of sources across the open Web, providing consumers with access to localized news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos, Yahoo! Answers, web images, as well as web and mobile web sites.

Originally posted on November 13, 2007 @ 12:29 pm