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Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties. Foursquare and Gowalla dueled for supremacy here while fresh rivals such as Tweetsii and Toodalu vowed to eclipse them. FourSquare and Gowalla launched last year at SXSW, a renowned gathering of musicians, ...

The Opera Mini Beta 5 is now available for Windows Mobile 5 & 6 devices. Previously, Windows Mobile users will have to use the Java version if they want Opera Mini on the phone. To get Opera Mini Beta, point your Window Mobile browser to m.opera.com/next. Video: Introduction to Opera Mini 5

Here comes the second Content Malaysia gathering(this was the first one & photos).It will take place tomorrow, details: Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010Time: 3:15pm – 6:00pmLocation: Centro @ KL Sentral What’s going to happen there?There will be a registration point for Maxis 1Store at this week’s Content Malaysia gathering. In other words, no need to spend time submitting online. Just ...

If you use WordPress, now you can easily create new posts, add media, manage comments, and more using the free mobile apps available for Blackberry, Android and the iPhone. These apps works for WordPress.com and self hosted WordPress(.org). Downloads: WordPress for Blackberry WordPress forAndroid WordPress for iPhone WordPress for Symbian- coming soon Developers: Check out this page

Features of Kaspersky Mobile Security 9 (KMS9): Privacy Protection-With the touch of a button you can mark a contact as ‘private’, meaning that no trace of them will appear in contact lists, SMSs and call logs. Other people using your mobile will only see what you want them to see. Supports contacts from both the onboard memory and SIM cards ...

Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox mobile web browser, only available for the Maemo platform(currently N900 and N810). Some of the features include “Awesome Bar”(smart address bar), Password Manager, One-touch bookmarking, Location-Aware Browsing, add ons and more. Simply go to mozilla.com/m on your N900 or N810 and download Firefox directly to your phone. You can also download it ...

Celcom is in talks with Friendster to bring the social networking service to Celcom’s mobile subscribers. I have no details regarding the deal, but it should be announced within the next few weeks, maybe a month. Those who don’t know, Friendster has been acquired by Malaysian-based MOL Global last month.

The Maxis 1Store was launched in June 2009, an application store for mobile developers to promote their apps to Maxis users. However it was not really “open” at that time as it was focused more in promoting the winning entries from the Mobile Content Challenge(MCC) 2009. Plus in my opinion, Maxis 1Store did not really made any huge impact on ...

Nokia plans to make walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones as part of a new version of Ovi Maps, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. The new version of Ovi Maps will include all essential car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries in 46 languages, and traffic information for over 10 countries, as ...

Looks like Celcom will be bringing the Blackberry App World to Malaysia. They expect this to happen within next one to two months. Over 10,000 applications for Blackberry are available on App World. Read my official story.

The Health Ministry is introducing an SMS-based system to notify patients of their appointments to reduce queues at hospitals. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the pilot project had been implemented at the Mamodiah Outpatient Clinic here. The queue management and appointment reminder would also send out an SMS when there are five patients before their turn. Full ...

Although all of our main mobile operators(Maxis, DiGi & Celcom) has some sort of anti-spamming and anti-spoofing solution, Malaysians are still not free from scams involving SMS. There are still a number of reports that mobile users are being charged for the content or service that they did not request. Who is supposed to take the responsibility this? The Telcos?(Who ...

You can download 9 free Blackberry apps from the Celcom website for free. Anyone could download it since you just need to enter your email address and Celcom will send you the download link for your Blackberry. Some of the apps are- Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Nav4All and more. http://www.celcom.com.my/cep/bb-apps-download/index.html

Media Prima via its “New Media” team(ALT Media) will be launching a mobile site for its TV station- 8TV, later today. Point your mobile browser to mobile.8tv.com.my and watch 10 8TV most popular content(Mandarin News, Blogger Boy, 8 Style…) on your mobile phone. The content is free and you are recommended to subscribe to a data plan, unless they(ALT Media) ...

It is a good time to be an entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry, provided strategic partnerships are formed and maintained, especially in the field of applications development, said industry leaders. A panel, comprising representatives from key players in the local telco industry, including Maxis Communications, Ericsson and WiMAX service provider Packet One Networks Malaysia Sdn Bhd (P1), agreed that the ...