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LG KS360 in Europe

Before the Asians enjoy the nice feature of LG KS360, the Europeans enjoy it first. I think the phone is very suitable for women (and youngters of course)–who like to have text messaging with their girlfriends. The UI is very unique, resembles Instant Messaging view with word bubble. The color is quite feminine also. Besides [...]

LG KS360 for texting-junkies

LG KS360 for Yahoo Messenger Junkies Yeah, I think this cellphone will be one of the most anticipated gadget in Asia countries like Singapore, India, or Indonesia. Based on their press release, this horizontal slider will come with of course, the QWERTY keypad. Actually, the cellphone that comes with full slider QWERTY keypad like this is [...]

Indonesia-Malaysia money transfer: just SMS!

There are about 66% of foreign labors in Malaysia that are from Indonesia. Most of them are living in under-banked area, make themselves difficult to transfer their money–overseas payment–to their homeland. But as research tell, every family in under-banked area has at least 1 cellphone. Can they use the cellphone to transfer their money back [...]

3 Indonesia choose NeuStar for their IM service

This is official. NeuStar, Inc. a tech company based in Sterling, Virginia, US will handle the Instant Messaging Service for 3 Indonesia. This agreement had gone through on June 4, 2008. On this deal, 3 Indonesia will implement NeuStar’s industry-leading Mobile Messaging Gateway (MMG) to deliver mobile Instant Messaging solutions to its customers. Working closely with popular ISP-based [...]

Forget Qantas, Emirates had done it first

For our 3GWeek readers we were very sorry to said that Qantas is not likely to become the first Airline which implement the AeroMobile’s technology. The first airline however is the famous one from far east called Emirates Airline. The Flight EK751 with Airbus A340-300 from Dubai to Casablanca, Morocco was the first flight which had [...]

BlackBerry: Productivity on the move

No matter when I was in business traveling in the remote areas of Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi like now, I could still follow the latest news from around the world. No matter that you will find harder to read national newspaper or Internet connection here, you don’t need to miss any news or just replying your [...]

Korea and Japan lead in mobile advertising

Advertising is now reaching mobile sector. As new media, not many advertising service has been implemented successfully. Among all countries surveyed, Korea and Japan, as predicted, take in lead in this area. According to ABI Research, the total value of all mobile advertising and marketing will reach $1.2 billion in Japan and $684 million in [...]

Bubble Motion launched interoperability voice SMS

Bubble Motion 3 days ago launched its new product, named InterCONNECT, where enable interoperability for voice SMS globally. Bubble Motion’s InterCONNECT connects multiple operators who have deployed the BubbleTALK service for their end-users. Digi in Malaysia and Indosat in Indonesia, both Bubble Motion partners, recently completed a successful InterCONNECT trial.

Worldwide SMS revenues to hit $67bn by 2012

SMS continues to be a phenomenal success as the cheapest, quickest and easiest to use form of peer-to-peer mobile communication. A new report from Portio Research forecasts a healthy future for SMS, which continues to be the star of the data services show with traffic volumes and revenues that continue to confound predictions. Although the growth [...]