Nokia Internet Radio

Nokia has announced the release of the service Nokia Internet Radio for mobile devices.

Tommi Mustonen, head of the Nokia music business, said:

“Most new music discovery occurs while you’re listening to the radio. By offering the Nokia Internet Radio service on mobile devices, the radio experience becomes more accessible, giving people new ways to find music.”

By offering hundreds of radio stations from all over the globe the radio catalogue Nokia Internet Radio promises to simplify the search of new music. With the help of the new service, a user will be able to find the required radio station by the name, genre, country or language. Each out the refresh of the top 10 radio stations takes place so that s user could find out which tracks top the world charts. Moreover, the users will be able to add top stations to the “favorites” list.

At the moment the application Nokia Internet Radio is supported by the following models: Nokia N82, Nokia N91, Nokia N95 и Nokia N95 8GB. It is planned to be released for other phones like, for instance, the upcoming Nokia S60 3rd edition.

payWave by Visa

Visa has started testing a few new mobile payment systems in a number of countries.

In Brazil the company is testing a distance payment system which will enable the users to make payments from mobile devices.

In Canada Visa is planning to test is contactless payment service “payWave” in cooperation with the bank Royal Bank of Canada. The testing will start next year in Ontario. The testing process will feature the chipsets NFC (Near Field Communications).

At the moment the similar system is being tested in Malaya in cooperation with Maybank, Maxis and Nokia. Visa is also testing payWave in Thailand. The system payWave is already included in Visa credit cards in the US, that’s why the company doesn’t have to use mobile phones to realize the technology.

Brand New Mobile Services by Amazon and Jamster

Download! for Nokia Xpress Music by Jamster

One of the world’s leading service providers Jamster has made its service for downloading full music tracks available for 2 new Nokia models Xpress Music. In a number of countries the owners of Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and и Nokia 5610 XpressMusic will be able to connect to the service Jamster Music via the shortcut Download! in the menu of the phone. The owners of these models will be able to buy 6 tracks per week for 4.50 pounds. The payment is carried out via SMS.

Download! is the content distribution service which works on a few Nokia models and enables the user to personify his/her phone with such content as music, games and other applications. For the first time the service has been made available for mobile platforms. The service starts functioning in 17 countries first, and during the next few months it is planned to expand the network to 50 countries in 5 continents.

Download the latest books on Amazon’s Kindle

Amazon.com is not the first company to offer an eBook with a user-friendly display (working according to the E-Ink technology). But it is the first company to introduce a new way of getting books which might open new horizons for the usage of mobile networks.

According to the company, the users of the eBook Kindle (the recommended price - $399) will be able to choose and buy new books from their mobile devices, and download them in less than 1 minute. They can also buy newspapers or subscribe to daily newspapers, magazines and blogs for a monthly fee. The newspapers are delivered immediately, the blogs – several times a day.

In order to ensure the delivery of all these data, Amazons uses the 3G network of the operator Sprint Nextel. Nevertheless, the users of Kindle will never see the bills for the service as it is included into the cost of the content. This extraordinary step might be duplicated by content-providers and mobile operators who look for successful and working schemes of getting money from high-speed networks. Kindle is equipped with a permanent connection to the network EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) by Sprint excluding the cases the user is out of the coverage zone. In this case the application shifts to the slower 1x network by Sprint.

Liquid MAPs by mobilePhone – Save Traffic / Increase Efficiency

The company mobilePhone, which is specializing in local mobile search solutions and catalogue and reference book advertising, has announced the release of a mobile map solution under the name “liquid MAP”.

The application has been developed for the publishers of catalogues, directory inquiry service and media-companies. According to the company’s representative, the novelty differs from the other products available on the market in that it uses the function of Scaleable Vector Graphics – SVG, inbuilt into Java. It means that mobile interactive maps eventually reached the mass market, because the overwhelming majority of mobile devices support Java.

mobilePhone notes that the solutions like Google or Yahoo maps are created on the base of “heavy” in the respect of traffic images formats which are created on the server and only later are downloaded to a phone, and it leads to heavy traffic consumption.

As “liquid MAP” is take shape on the device directly and only the required meta-information (geometric parameters) is downloaded this cartographic solution consumes up to 10 times less traffic. It is really beneficial for the users who pay for the up- and downloaded bytes.

Moreover, panning and resizing of such maps are up to 10 times faster that bitmap ones. It is connected to the fact that the cartographic information inside the phone shows a bigger territory than the screen can support. When panning or resizing takes place, there is no need for additional data downloading.

The application “liquid MAPs” is a stand-alone mobile map Java application, but it can be integrated in mobilePeople’s white label liquid LOCAL or liquid LOCAL+ search solution

The user can search for organizations or people and browse the results on the maps. Other features include address search, local search and movement indicators (including public transport and pedestrian ways). The application features enhanced users’ functionality, for instance, true total compatibility with maps, presentation of detailed information by clicking on the object (a road, park, building etc.). Moreover, the text is automatically scaled to fit the size of the screen. It means that it doesn’t diffuse if a user resizes the scale of the map.

There is a possibility to install audio advertising in the application. It is screened on a map as a sound shortcut. When a user browses a page with such a shortcut, there plays a short track with the information about the company. An advertiser company can be singled out by an icon. When a user clicks on it he/she is automatically redirected to the page of the advertiser.

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