NEW YORK–Oct. 27, 2008—VringoTM has announced an agreement with Avea, a progressive mobile operator in Turkey, to provide Turkey's first video ringtone service. In addition to bringing Vringo to a potential universe of millions, this deal also represents a first for the video ringtone market:  the first carrier-led video ringtone subscription model.

Vringo and Avea are launching the service via the carrier’s popular youth platform Patlican, bringing Vringo’s video ringtone application and 4,000+-clips-and-counting video ringtone library exclusively to Patlican members. Members will receive a 60-day free trial, followed by a monthly subscription fee of 4 SMS/8 counters, which includes the application, access to a number of video ringtones and free data for downloading Vringo. Members will be able to reach these services and contents from patlican.vringo.com.

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Leading SMS Provider Acknowledged for Unsurpassed Ease-of-Use and Rapid Implementation; Bests Google Maps and Other Mobile Industry Leaders

 

Redwood City, CA, October 27, 2008

Clickatell, leading global provider of mobile messaging solutions, today announced it won first place in Mobile Industry Review’s (MIR) 2008 Awards ‘Best Value Product’ category. Runners up in the category include Google Maps, SpinVox, 3 Pay As You Go, Mippin and others. The 2008 MIR awards recognized over a dozen industry leaders in a variety of global mobile service categories. To view Clickatell's Best Value Product announcement please Click Here.

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Momail launches support for the latest mobiles vendors will begin shipping for this year’s Christmas season. Total number of devices supported for its mobile email service has now surpassed 1200 different models, making Momail the outstanding leader in device support for mobile email.

Stockholm, Sweden, October 27, 2008. Momail continues to be first to offer support for the latest mobile phones, now launching support for models that will become available for this Christmas season. Examples of upcoming hot models Momail already supports are HTC Touch HD, LG Renoir, Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic and 7610 Supernova, Samsung Innov8 and Soul b, and Sony Ericsson’s C905 and T700. The company also announces that its mobile email service now supports over 1200 different mobile devices, thus further proving its market leadership in devices supported.

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Sonim’s Technologies’ "indestructible" XP1 phone appears in live webcam destruction

London, October 22nd 2008 – Digital marketing agency CreativeFeed have put the world’s "toughest" GSM phone, the Sonim XP1, to the ultimate test with the launch of The Destroyer – a machine-operated hammer designed to pummel the phone twenty-four hours a day live over the internet at www.testanddestroy.com until it finally gives in and breaks.

Inspired by the YouTube postings by both members of the public and European media, The Destroyer took approximately over four weeks to build and pounds the phone every eight seconds. At this pace, the
XP1 takes over 10,000 hits a day.

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October, 24th, 2008, Salo, Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: GeoSentric Oyj’s (NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V), GeoSolutions BV Business Unit (GyPSii), today announced that it has won a prestigious Symbian Star Developer Award, for Most Innovative Symbian Application, in recognition of its market-leading mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform – GyPSii. GyPSii is a great example of how map data and GPS technology can be combined to develop innovative wireless LBS applications, so we had no hesitation in nominating it for the Symbian Star Developer Award," explained Marc Naddell,. "NAVTEQ digital mapping provides the right quality and depth of coverage to effectively support this type of social networking solution that connects user-generated content to people and places."

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