Nokia: Searching the Globe
ESPOO, Finland, October 12 — Nokia announced that Mobile Search has added another set of new local directory providers to global markets, making it the online search tool for finding what you want in many parts of the world. Now Nokia users in around the globe can benefit from the easy, fast and direct search capabilities of Mobile Search. The addition of new services for Canada, Denmark and Germany further strengthens Nokia’s dedication to bring extensive local directory information directly to your pocket with Mobile Search.Nokia has teamed with the most comprehensive local directory companies in each respective market to enable easy and precise local searches. Mobile Search users will be able to access local content from De Gule Sider (Denmark), Suchen.de and DasOertliche (Germany), and Yellow Pages Group (Canada).
“You can get lost in many parts of the world now, but connect to Mobile Search and you’re soon on the way to your destination, whether it’s a restaurant, business or other local destination. We’re thrilled to be adding so many new local search providers to our Mobile Search offering, it certainly reinforces our dedication to provide local Internet services directly to your pocket,” said Ralph Eric Kunz, vice president, Multimedia Experiences, at Nokia.
Mobile Search has already seen a tremendous increase in users across Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the markets where Mobile Search was initially launched.
Mobile Search is available in select markets in the standard sales packs of the Nokia N80 Internet Edition, Nokia N73, Nokia N93, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680, and Nokia 6681. It is also offered as a free download for more selected Nokia S60 devices from www.nokia.com/mobilesearch.
The Mobile Search application fast-tracks the user directly to the desired contact number, and once the required destination has been located, this clever application directs the user to the right location with the aid of a digital map with dynamic panning and zooming, where maps are available.
Source- http://www.hardwarezone.com
Bharti Airtel appoints Gopal Vittal as Director, Marketing & Communication
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile services company is appointing Gopal Vittal as Director, Marketing & Communication and Coral Borghesi as Director, Customer Service Delivery who will be part of Airtel Management Board and reporting to Manoj Kohli, the president of the company.
Gopal Vittal will play a key role in leading Airtel`s marketing and brand initiatives. His focus will be to sustain and enhance the organization`s positioning among its customers and key stakeholders.
Carol Borghesi will drive Bharti Airtel`s vision of becoming the most admired brand by the year 2010 through outstanding customer service delivery systems.
Gopal Vittal started his career with Unilever India and has 16 years of experience in marketing and sales. During his career with Unilever, he was responsible for conceptualizing, leading, piloting and rolling out Unilever’s largest rural marketing initiative, Project Bharat.
Carol Borghesi was the managing director of 21st Century Customer Experience, a division of 21C. She has extensive experience in telecom, retail and technology domains. She has set an example as a leader in United Kingdom and Europe, managing and transforming the customer service and customer related operations domain.
Manoj Kohli, President Bharti Airtel said, “Customer service excellence and innovation are two strategic pillars on which rests our vision of becoming the most admired brand in India by 2010. I am confident that Gopal and Carol`s rich experience will take our brand to a new high by setting new industry benchmarks“.
Source- http://www.myiris.com
Technorati : Bharti Airtel, India, Mobile
Ice Rocket : Bharti Airtel, India, Mobile
ALBACOM: OCTOBER FIRST IT BECOMES BRITISH TELECOM ITALIA
Milan, Sept 20 – Starting October 1, Albacom will change name and become British Telecom Italia, said managing director Corrado Sciolla in an interview to be published tomorrow by Economy magazine. The BT telecommunications company will continue to focus on business clients, where it ranks second in Italy after Telecom. The turnover for 2006 will reach 950 million, 12 percent more than last year, with drawn gross results; Italy will be the first country outside the United Kingdom to reach a billion in turnover. Former associates BNL, ENI and Mediaset, according to the economic weekly, currently account for 15 percent of the company’s trade. According to another manager of the English group, Andy Green, at the head of BT Global Services, “It is clearly convenient to have a mobile division because one can be more aggressive in the supply of technological convergence.” (AGI) .
Source- http://www.agi.it
Technorati : Mobile, Telecom Italia
Ice Rocket : Mobile, Telecom Italia
Mobile problems to linger: Vodafone
VODAFONE says its customers will continue to experience some disruptions to their mobile phone service for the rest of the week.
Vodafone’s acting managing director and chief finance officer Pradeep Lal said almost all services were back to normal following the successful crossover from the old exchange to the new one over the weekend.
In a paid advertisement, the company said due to the on-going work on the new exchange, disruptions could be experienced during the week.
“Customers are advised that at certain times you may not be able to access all Vodafone services.
“This includes the ability to make calls from pre-pay phones, check account balances and or top up your talk time, send text messages as well as roaming and voicemail services, it said.
The company said engineers from Fiji, Australia and the United Kingdom were working around the clock to ensure all services were normalised as soon as possible.
It said customers would be kept informed on the progress of the work.
Mr Lal said moving to a new exchange was like putting together a 1000-piecejigsaw puzzle.
“So bit by bit each product or service is moved across while trying to ensure minimum disruption of services to the customer, he said
Source- http://www.fijitimes.com
Ozura Mobile Chosen as Excite Japan’s First International Distribution Partner
Ozura Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextnation Communication and a leading international publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has been chosen as Excite Japan’s first international mobile game distribution partner.
Singapore (PRWEB) August 23, 2006 — Ozura Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextnation Communication and a leading international publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has been chosen as Excite Japan’s first international mobile game distribution partner.
Excite Japan, one of Japan’s largest web portals and mobile game providers, is granting Ozura Mobile the distribution rights for its premium mobile game titles. Ozura Mobile plans to make these games available through its extensive network of distribution channels consisting of major mobile operators and distribution partners in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, China, India and the United Kingdom.
“Ozura Mobile has been chosen as the preferred international mobile game distributor due to its well established presence in the global mobile gaming industry,” said Ozura Mobile’s Chief Executive Officer, Lion Peh.
Peh added that Ozura Mobile will be effectively offering more than 150 million mobile subscribers in its network the chance to play some of the most sought after mobile games today.
“This partnership with Excite Japan clearly reflects growing international recognition of Ozura Mobile’s cutting edge technology in the development of mobile gaming platforms. Our mobile gaming platform, FunlogiXâ„¢, is one of the most sought after platforms in the mobile gaming industry as it is highly compatible with games from all over the world ranging from Japanese to Russian origin developed using different development tools,” commented Peh.
He further revealed that over the next 3 years, Ozura Mobile expects a boost in revenue of up to USD20 million from global sales via this partnership.
Informa forecasts mobile gaming sales will generate USD$7.2bn a year worldwide by 2011, growing from the USD$2.4bn sold in 2006. The international provider of specialist information also predicts that Asia Pacific, which dominates mobile games sales, will account for nearly half the industry by 2011.
“The rapid revolution in the mobile gaming market, especially in the Asia Pacific, represents a huge potential for us. We have recently launched Indonesia’s first mobile gaming community with Indosat and we are soon to roll out more of our deployment programs in Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, China and Hong Kong. This will be another win for us in tapping into the substantial global gaming market,” said Peh.
To date, Ozura Mobile has published and aggregated an extensive compendium of games through its distribution network worldwide, representing over 2,000 game titles in over 130 countries. With its propriety gaming platform, FunlogiXâ„¢, Ozura Mobile also provides its state- of- the- art community based mobile gaming technology to mobile operators worldwide.
About Excite Japan Co. Ltd
Excite Japan Co., Ltd is one of the leading Japan-based Internet service provider. The Company has five business segments. The Advertising segment is engaged in the sale of advertising space on its Website to enterprises. The Content Service segment offers community services, music download services, online games and others. The Broadband Service segment provides Internet access services, mainly broadband services to general consumers. The Electronic Commerce (EC) segment is engaged in the sale, auction and shopping of commodities through Internet systems. The Others segment is involved in the development of Internet systems, as well as the management of fan clubs and the provision of services for beauty salon services through Internet. Excite Japan is a subsidiary of Itochu Corporation. Headquartered in Tokyo, the Company has three consolidated subsidiaries and three associated companies.
About Ozura Mobile
Ozura Mobile is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextnation Communication Berhad and is a leading international developer and publisher for mobile games and game developer engine to carriers, aggregators, mobile phone manufacturers and service providers. The company creates games for the mobile phones based on the J2ME, BREW and Symbian platforms. Ozura Mobile’s games are available all over the world through its distribution network of partners spanning across 130 countries. It is expected that the growth of mobile phones supporting these platforms will exceed one billion units worldwide in 2008.
About Nextnation
Nextnation’ a mobile application service provider’ enables businesses and individuals to access’ connect’ and transact across today’s complex global mobile networks. Its core product MINDCEPâ„¢ Platform is a mobile multimedia communication platform’ facilitating and enabling mobile data transmission worldwide using WAP’ MMS’ SMS and Java technologies. MINDCEPâ„¢ is connected to some of the largest premium messaging networks in the world in order to offer a broad range of services from content distribution to mobile m-commerce and place the company at the forefront of this rapidly growing messaging market. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.nextnationnet.com.
Source- http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb427786.htm
Technorati : Japan, Mobile, Ozura
Ice Rocket : Japan, Mobile, Ozura
