THQ has announced that the popular ABC television show based game, Dancing with the Stars, is now available for Windows Personal computer, on the web download and mobile phones.
Dancing with the Stars for mobile phones lets wireless gamers select their celebrity and costume while training their way through five exciting mini-games. Players can select from 16 favorite celebrity dancers as they choose to perform the Cuban Cha-Cha or the Jive to wow the judges. Gamers can also track their successes and ranking in an eight week competition.
I haven't had a opportunity to try out the game and honestly it doesn't sound that interesting. Guess they figured it's the series of mini games that could make the Dancing with the Stars game playable. And while I'm still not convinced, I might actually try it…
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Australia's Telstra will be switching off its CDMA network in favor of the new HSDPA-enabled 3G network, following the approval by the Australian government.
According to The Australian, initially the government resisted giving green light to the mobile operator over concerns that the new network wouldn’t be able to provide coverage in more remote areas and other technical issues. However, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told reporters he was “satisfied that Telstra has met the equivalence tests in its licence condition and has sufficiently rectified the problems I identified in January, including handheld handset coverage, customer information provision and the availability of equipment and services.”
Conroy urged Telstra's CDMA customers to switch mobile providers as soon as possible or to take advantage of Telstra's ongoing handset exchange scheme.
Telstra's new HSDPA-enabled 3G network, known as “Next G”, uses 850 MHz rather than 2100 MHz enabling it to cover much greater geographic distances.
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More M&A news. Apparently, Vodafone is interested to acquire the Anglo-Italian ISP Tiscali.
According to The Guardian, Tiscali's board likes selling both its UK and Italian subsidiaries together rather than separately.
In addition to Vodafone, a host of other companies are also interested in Tiscali — including BSkyB, Orange, Carphone Warehouse, Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Sky Italia — but most of them are believed to be interested in just one of the Tiscali subsidiaries, not both.
Following its acquisition of Italian ISP Tele2 last year, Vodafone undoubtedly confirmed its interest in the Italian fixed-line market. Likewise, the Huge Red operator is also reportedly keen to expand its UK broadband business, which currently uses BT's network for access.
Tiscali UK is Britain's fourth-largest broadband provider with around 1.8 million customers. A deadline for initial non-binding offers is set for May 5.
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France Telecom is reportedly in speaks to acquire Nordic operator TeliaSonera. In a current conference call with journalists, France Telecom's Finance Director Gervais Pellissier described the deal as “a strategic opportunity” and one that could be made through a combined cash and share offer. However, the company gave no timeframes for when a deal could be completed and warned the acquisition could mean it misses its debt target for the year.
TeliaSonera has a market value of around US$38 billion and is partly owned by the Swedish and Finish governments, which have 37% and 13.7% stakes in the mobile operator.
[Via: MarketWatch]
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According to sources in Taiwan's handset industry, China-based Amoi Electronics has landed orders to make Windows Mobile smartphones for Vodafone. The move will make the Chinese company the third supplier of Windows Mobile-based mobile devices for the UK-based telecom giant, which at the moment purchases such devices from HTC and Asustek.
Amoi will begin shipping the so called Amoi 6711 in Q3 2008. Currently, the same device is offered by other two operators, Orange and AT&T, which are rebranding it as the SPV E610 and SMT5700, respectively.
[Via: DigiTimes]
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Verizon and Vodafone announced that they've teamed up with Madonna, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake to deliver the “mobile underground remix” of Madonna's highly-anticipated debut single “4 Minutes” from her upcoming album “HARD CANDY.”
Starting today, the underground version of the song is available to Verizon Wireless customers through V CAST Music as a full-song download, ringtone and ringback tone. This exclusive Madonna track produced by Timbaland, Verizon Wireless' mobile producer in residence, and featuring Justin Timberlake is available for download to Vodafone customers in Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and the UK. This incredible remix was created on the Verizon Wireless mobile recording studio bus in New York City last month, following Madonna's induction ceremony into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fans who download the full-song, ringtone or ringback tone through Verizon Wireless' V CAST Music service will also have a chance to win a barcoded ticket to the exclusive Madonna performance on April 30 at New York's famed Roseland Ballroom.
Madonna's “HARD CANDY” album is scheduled for international release on April 28, 2008, with the U.S. release the following day.
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We've already talked about Crush or Flush in the past. The mobile social network is now working on an innovating way of mobile advertising by introducing what they call the Golden Ticket sponsored profiles.
Golden Ticket sponsored profiles consist of a pic of the brand and tags describing the product. For example, a member with the tag 'music' may encounter a branded profile promoting KISS FM, giving the member the option to 'Crush' or 'Flush' the profile. If the member crushes the profile, they’ve the option to engage further by clicking a link to sign up for a KISS event, download a song, or join a VIP program.
And what does the industry considers it? A senior analyst with Frost & Sullivan said that the model presented by Crush or Flush is innovative and promising by “allowing people to interact with brands as if they were real profiles on the site while also opening a new revenue channel for on the web and mobile social networks.”
During testing phases earlier this year, the feature received positive feedback, with 82% of the site's members choosing to 'Crush' the brands…
[Via: Great Dating Services]
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Francesco Cara is talking at the 2008 LIFT Conference about how Nokia has grown in terms of how their devices interact with the ecosystems around them. He notes that the iPhone takes a very desktop oriented approach in terms of how to operate the device and most curiously praises Palm for their user centric design efforts. Great way to kill 18 minutes this weekend:
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