So far we usually covered SRS’ and Ray M. Dolby’s mobile efforts. The two companies have successfully partnered with leadership mobile phone makers which ar now selling multimedia system devices with enhanced audio frequency quality. Today we rich person a floor involving DTS that signed a trade with Pantech which volition embed DTS’ digital environment audio decoding technology into its smartphones. The first base line of these DTS-enabled products are exercise set for launch in Korea in April 2010.

At launching, Pantech smartphones volition include a DTS Legacy decipherer (digital surround) with 2-channel analogue and 2-channel PCM yield through a mini HDMI port. This volition allow users the power to stream content from their phones to a number of external sources to “experience soaker DTS auditory sensation.”

Signing such a trade with Pantech is a huge winnings for DTS, which is usually known for its engagement in family HD entertainment products. Hopefully, we’ll see more news from them as marketplace of the digital audio technologies on mobile phones keeps growing.

It’s not like every solar day we have some Ovi Store winner story to part. Unfortunately for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), they haven’t been able to repeat Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s AppStore success. If you looking at at Shazam’s exercise, it has smasher 1 one thousand thousand Ovi Store downloads after 7 month, compared to 1.5 one thousand thousand in 2 months on AppStore. To be fair, piece Apple keeps ruling the horse opera cerebral hemisphere, Nokia dominates the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific Ocean and Latin America.

Anyway, I wanted to showcase I of not-that-many Ovi Store winner stories. The troupe is Digital Chocolate and they announced that their biz downloads have crossed the 4 million mark.

To celebrate arrival such a milestone, the mobile gambling publisher is gift away 5 of its big top merchandising titles during the calendar month of Apr – Tower Bloxx: New York, Rollercoaster Rush: 99 Tracks, Crazy Penguin Party, Nightclub Fever, and Dictator Defense. Yap, you can already hunting for them in the Ovi Store.

In plus, Digital Chocolate also said it volition bring Jurassic 3D Rollercoaster Rush to the Maemo-based Nokia N900. So far we oasis’t seen a major publishing firm support Nokia’s Linux platform, but we’re definitely hoping to see how it performs in the mobile gaming world. The proper hardware is definitely there, so it shouldn’t be a problem for the N900 (and its potential difference successors) to smoothly tally 3D games…

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless continues with its weekly Android app recommendations. This meter they are all about staying organized with your DROID smartphone. Actually, that’s the functionary line of work, though most of the apps they suggest trade with their own services. Hera’s the list:

My Verizon – allows users to access their Verizon Wireless accounts to get balances, custom numbers and defrayal information and to update features, services and Family SharePlan lines.Visual Voice Mail – diligence for managing your visual voice chain armour, which BTW costs $2.99 per calendar month.V CAST Media Manager – allows users to move and organize pictures, videos and medicine between their computers and phones. It’s not an app for your smartphone, but for your computer.Verizon FiOS Mobile River – enables remote control programing of your Verizon FiOS DVR, browse and searching of TV programme listings, and wake of lists of recorded programs.FiOS Mobile Remote – for FiOS TV control from your earphone.VZW Tones 4.0 – allows users to prevue, leverage and manage all of their ringtones and ringback tones.ScanLife Barcode Reader – popular barcode scanning app.

And you tin discovery all of the apps mentioned above (except V CAST Media Manager) in the Android Market.

Orange River swept the gameboard by winning three industry gongs at the prestigious Mobile River News Awards 2010 this workweek. In the first base win of the eve, it scooped the coveted Large Retailer of the class category. For the first meter, the category was judged by the cumulative tons from Mobile River News’ ‘Mystery Shopper’ serial, with Orange emerging victorious as the outstanding movement runner.

Orange also rhythm off fierce contention to take the best ‘Innovative Service’ awarding for Social Life, the mobile sociable networking collection service. Bringing together activity on sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo in single central office, the judges described the overhaul as “another great innovation that’s aimed at the ontogeny sociable networking marketplace.”  A highly commended nod was also given in this category to the Monkey music overhaul.

To circus tent the evening, chief executive officer Tom Alexander the Great was presented with the Mobile River News Lifetime Achievement awarding, which recognises the figures who are fundamental in shaping the mobile manufacture.  In an illustrious life history which has spanned 25 days, Tom Alexander was crowned for his role in taking mobile phones mass marketplace at Virgin Mobile, as wellspring as the huge impact he’s made on the customers and employees of Orange as chief executive officer.

Picking up the award from comedian compare Michael Mcintyre, Tom Alexander the Great, chief executive officer said, “My Lifetime Achievement Award topped off what was a fantastic evening for Orange River.  These awards are testimony to all of the hard employment done by the citizenry of Orange River, and takings us even closer towards our ambitiousness to be the topper loved telecommunications troupe in the UK.”

The Mobile News awards are well-recognised in the manufacture, so to come away with threesome awards is VERY good going! Well done!

There’s a new messaging device available in the ever-maturation Indian marketplace. It’s called G-Fone G588 and even though it feels legit, I can’t help but to equivalence it with the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8900. However, instead of a trackball that’s found in RIM’s twist, the G588 boast a D-digs (which I personally prefer).

Rest of the spectacles include dual SIM capableness (works with both GSM and CDMA networks), 1.3-megapixel photographic camera, 2.2-in QVGA screen, FM wireless, full QWERTY keyboard, and a microSD memory card one-armed bandit. Software wise, it comes with Opera Mini, music player, email diligence, mixer networking client (powered by Nimbuzz), and an Amerindian language calendar that “serves as a guiding force for the practice of various Hindu rituals and festivals.”

Availability wise, the G-Fone G-588 is sold via Bright Telecom for only 4,799 INR, which is about $105.

In a nutshell, it’s an affordable messaging device for business folks and individuals alike, and I’ve no doubts the flattop will manage to move dozens of them…

[Via: Unwired View]

Juniper Research has a new report titled “Mobile River Cloud Applications” forecasting that the figure of enterprise customers using mobile cloud-based applications will ascension to more than 130 one thousand thousand by 2014. Key players such as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) volition be among headstone drivers of this outgrowth with their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) deployments.

Juniper found that as swarm providers ar increasingly opening up their APIs to developers, an opportunity is emerging for companies to reduce the costs associated by porting apps across multiple platforms.

The report author Dr House of Windsor Holden thinks that the swarm-based ecosystem for endeavour apps will be attractive both for developers and enterprises alike: developers get a wider potential interview, whereas enterprise customers reduce costs and get more tractableness by outsourcing diligence management on a scalable, pay-per-use basis.

Other findings from the report include:

Storage and base suppliers wealthy person the opportunity to develop mobile-oriented swarm services.Consumer applications — including games, mixer networks and medicine services — volition together generate more than 25 of such revenues by 2014.

Additional entropy on Juniper’s report is available from their website.

Users of the BOLT browser for BlackBerry will want to yield note that the app has gone to variant 1.6. Some new features and enhancements have been integrated, some of which you whitethorn really enjoy.

A quick overview from the functionary pressure liberation:

For all mobile information networks that documentation it, BOLT 1.6 now offers full socket-based connectivity which can increase the page rendition speed of BOLT by as much as 15 percentage. BOLT 1.6 also includes a new password manager, allowing usernames and passwords to be saved by the web browser for easier and faster logins to users’ favorite websites and online applications…BOLT 1.6 can now be exercise set as the default web browser on their smartphones.

Want to update or learn more? Point your browsers toward www.boltbrowser.com.

[Via: PR-Inside]

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone developers weren’t the only ones drooling when the troupe introduced the iAd mobile publicizing platform with the iPhone OS 4.0 software, as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) also thinks it tin help the hunt giant star acquire AdMob.

Google spent about $750 million trying to buy AdMob but the Fed Trade Commission is taking a finale looking at the deal and may blocking it because it could spring Google too much power over a small industry. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Apple’s mobile chopine shows there is “evidence of a highly competitive marketplace.”

“It’s been really interesting talk to them because they are so dead exercise set against this,” Schmidt said about the FTC. “They have been clearly emplacement to try to stop this.”

The iAd platform is intriguing because it’s tied directly in the operating system, which means companies volition be able to implement rich-media ads that don’t prison-breaking away from the app experience. I think it’s a open sign that’s there’s competition in the space but net ball’s not forget how dominant Google’s online ad platform is. Combining that with the mobile quad – which many expect to be the next big marketplace of the future – could give it the power to exert monopoly qualities. We’ll keep our eyes on this unity.

[Via Reuters]