Who Wants Some More Mobile Services?

AOL’s Transcoder Service for “Real” Internet Delivery

AOL UK re-launches its mobile page in order to supply its users with the “real” Internet. The service sources its content from the AOL’s mobile site directly and features web-surfing, e-mail and search. Moreover, there is a function of saving the user’s latest settings.

It should be mentioned that it is one more mobile service that features the technology of dynamic mobile transcoding which enables to adjust the web-content of the page to fit into the screen of the mobile device of the user (it means that it adjusts the content to the mobile phone model of the user). Theoretically it means that there will be all the site of PC-base Internet on the screens of mobile device. Such a technology might frustrate the developers of special mobile pages. The news service is the latest novelty by AOL with the goal to increase the users’ dedication to the mobile platform.

In May 2007 the company has purchase the American mobile agency Third Screen.

Weather Channel’s Mobile Service

The companies Weather Channel Interactive and Vantrix have announced their plans for the launch of a new mobile service which will be available at Weather Channel’s mobile page.

The mobile users will be able to have access to video-forecasts, resort forecasts and weather news. Vantrix has developed the service which will enable every visitor with a media-supporting device to watch video-info optimized to his device without having to install additional software.

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