Vopium gets capital injection of $16.5 million

Business

25 June 2010: The Danish software company Vopium has expanded its group of owners to include the international telecommunications investor Raghuvinder Kataria. The 16.5 million dollar investment secures Vopium’s international expansion.
Vopium’s economic foundation is now secured so that the company can keep expanding internationally. The Indian investor, Raghuvinder Kataria, has with his own investment company [...]

3G and background calling now available with Truphone v4.0

Mobile VoIP

June 24, 2010 – Unless you have been living in a cave over the past few months, you would have heard about iPhone 4, Apple’s latest and greatest phone, which went on sale overnight. To celebrate, we are all very excited to announce that we have just upgraded our iPhone and iPod touch applications to [...]

Truphone announces agreements with Vodafone Netherlands and Orange in Spain

Business

London, 17th June – Truphone Local Anywhere service will be available in the Netherlands and Spain within months. The global mobile operator has forged agreements with Vodafone Netherlands and Orange in Spain (part of the France Telecom Group) providing Truphone with access to the operators’ mobile networks in these markets to deliver Truphone Local Anywhere™ [...]

Skype now available for Sony Ericsson Symbian smartphones

Mobile VoIP

LUXEMBOURG, 15 June 2010 — Skype announced the availability of Skype on three Sony Ericsson smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world’s most popular smartphone platform. Users of Sony Ericsson’s flagship smartphones Satio™, Vivaz™ and Vivaz™ pro can now use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (3G, GPRS, [...]

MO-Call teams with Ukash to connect the unbanked

Business

June 10th, 2010 – LONDON – Morodo Limited announced that it has partnered with Ukash to provide a new payment option for customers of its well-known MO-Call voice and SMS service. MO-Call customers may now use Ukash vouchers to buy airtime credit at the MO-Call website from their mobile phone or computer. Go to item

Rebtel For iPhone 1.3 Is Here!

Alias Numbers

June 2nd, 2010 – In the midst of all the diligent work on our Android app, some of you have probably wondered whether we have started to neglect our first born, the beloved Rebtel iPhone app. We can assure you that this is certainly not the case. Even if brother Android offers us an unmatched [...]

Nimbuzz no longer available for Windows Mobile

Business

June 2 – These might not be the best news of today, but we’d like to inform you that as of July 1st Nimbuzz for Windows Mobile phones will no longer be available for download from our website. If you already have Nimbuzz on your mobile phone we will continue to offer support until the [...]

Mobile Social Entertainment Service mig33 Again Broadens Its Reach

Business

Singapore – June 2, 2010 — Already the world’s largest mobile community, mig33 today announced another milestone in its march toward becoming the world’s top mobile social entertainment service, expanding its umbrella to embrace millions of potential users who access online services in an increasing variety of ways. Go to item

Voxofon First to Announce Mobile VoIP for Windows Phone 7

Business

June 1, 2010 – Voxofon is extending its communication platform with support for the new Windows® Phone 7 by Microsoft® when it becomes available later this year, allowing users of the new smartphone to make long distance calls directly from their smartphones at up to 98% savings over traditional telecom prices. Go to item

MOCall for the iPhone now works on 3G networks

Mobile VoIP

June 1st, 2010 – LONDON – Morodo Limited today announced the release of a new version of its iPhone app that supports cheap calls and SMS via both WiFi and 3G networks. The new iPhone app is free and available now for installation or upgrade from iTunes.
Morodo Managing Director, Andrew Reid, said. “This is the [...]

mig33 encourages 40 million registered users to buy a virtual gift of an endangered animal and support World Environment Day

Business

01 June 2010 – mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, is encouraging its 40 million users across the globe to support World Environment Day on 05 June by sending virtual gifts of their favourite endangered animals to their friends, with proceeds going to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Go to item

fring to bring rich mobile Internet communication to Intel® Atom™ processor based MeeGo* devices

Business

London, United Kingdom, June 1, 2010. fring, the popular, mobile communication application is extending its application support to the wide range of Intel® Atom™ processor based devices running the MeeGo-based software platform. Meego is a mobile version of Linux that merges Intel’s Moblin™ with Nokia’s Maemo operating systems. It’s designed to be used in smartphones, [...]

Skypes new iPhone application introduces 3G calling functionality

Mobile VoIP

LUXEMBOURG, 30 May 2010 – Skype today announced the launch of the new version of its iPhone application. Available to download from the Apple App Store today, this update allows iPhone users to make and receive Skype-to-Skype calls, and to call mobiles and landlines around the world at very low rates for the first time [...]

Nimbuzz tops Best Nokia Apps

Business

28 May – Great news everyone! Our friends from the OVI blog just published the Top Nokia OVI apps and according to the community Nimbuzz is the second most popular application! Yay!
A few days ago they have used their social media channels(Ovi on Twitter, Ovi on Facebook) to ask everybody “What are your favourite Ovi [...]

fring gives Android users the 1st mobile video calls

Video Calling

London, United Kingdom, 27 May 2010. fring, the mobile over internet communication service, today announces the release of the world’s first mobile video calls over internet on Android devices
For the first time, users of Android devices, the world’s fast-growing mobile phone operating system, will be able to send a good night kiss from abroad, [...]

Free International Calling Made Easy With Rebtel For Android

Alias Numbers

May 26th – A few months ago, all of us here at the Rebtel office were in serious scramble mode to finish an early, yet demoable version of our first app for the Android platform.
The reason, in addition to huge user demand, was the news we had received of us being accepted as one [...]

Nimbuzz tops 100000 Followers on #Twitter

Business

April 8th – We did it! Thanks a lot guys!! This is truly epic. Not even 24 hours after we asked you to help us get there, we crossed the 100,000 Twitter followers milestone! That’s amazing! Thank you guys so much for your continued support and loyalty. We will continue to bring you the [...]

New iPhone app with 3G VoIP/data

Mobile VoIP

April 5th – Now iPhone users can make FREE calls to Vopium users, Skype users and Gtalk users also outside Wi-Fi, using the 3G data network. You also avoid the local charge and the call set-up charge to your operator. Instead you use your data plan. 3G data/VoIP calls are disabled as default, but can [...]

Truphone Gives Apple iPad Owners A Voice

IM

p>London, 3rd April 2010 – Truphone, the global mobile operator, today announced the availability of its application that offers thousands of Apple iPad customers the ability to make voice calls.
The company’s award-winning VoIP application turns the tablet sized device into a mobile phone that offers free or low-cost international calls, as well as advanced [...]

Taking the first steps to making revenue

Business

April 1st – As you know, Nimbuzz is a free application to download and to use and we want to keep it that way. However we need to find ways to make money so that we can still deliver the same quality product you got used to!
The first step in this direction was the launch [...]

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