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Has mBill turnkey mobile billing stopped trading?

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mBill provides innovative and comprehensive mobile marketing and billing solutions. Through scalable, flexible and richly functional products we enable clients to turn their mobile ideas into generative revenue with a broader market reach.

?We are a dynamic mobile billing company, providing capabilities for content delivery and
premium rate services? ? Mark Reiken, Managing Director, mBill

Global statistics show growth in mobile usage to be rocketing forward at fast speeds, with no peak in sight. mBill enables clients to gain a greater connection to their customers via the mobile Internet. Facilitate the setup, purchase and delivery of various mobile services, including Mobile Content, Chat and Subscriptions. With mBill?s complete range of mobile solutions we can provide project-specific, combined or customised solutions that make it even easier to extend your market reach in a manner that suits your unique needs.

The mBill team of experts has over 15 years of combined experience in mobile billing technologies and with mBill?s continued growth we have developed billing solutions that enable clients to take advantage of the mobile Internet explosion and the m-commerce evolution. We have built and refined our products, and pride ourselves on providing comprehensive solutions whilst retaining ease of use for our clients, not only making it simple however also quick for clients to setup and start making money from the mobile Internet.

By providing a mixture of readymade products and custom billing solutions we ensure our clients can connect with their end users fast and easy, and in a manner that makes it fast and easy for the consumer to respond to. Our billing environment is sophisticated and flexible, enabling our clients to transact directly with their end users.

?Our core focus is provisioning of billing and content services that provide global
reach and revenue generation.? ? Mark Reiken, Managing Director, mBill

Our products and services use multiple delivery and transactional mediums to conduct mobile commerce. Delivery is achieved using technologies such as WAP, GPRS, MMS & SMS. Billing methods primarily focus on the tried and trusted premium rate services such as Premium Rate Numbers, Interactive Voice Response, Premium SMS as well as traditional methods such as Credit Card.

With satisfied and successful clients reaching across the globe, our products have been proven in the local and international market place, with new countries constantly being added.

Benefit from the global reach and reduced costs of mBill?s billing solutions to sell your mobile content and services, and deliver your marketing campaigns. Contact us today and discuss your mobile ideas or requirements.

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Android on AT&T ? Hell has frozen over

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Never thought I ever see it ? But there it is. How this impacts the Google Voice fiasco I do not know.

Want to go on record and say ?I was wrong?.

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AT&T Launches Major Initiative to Bring 'Apps to All'

Company Also Plans to Launch Five Android-Based Devices in First Half of 2010

Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6, 2010
newsrelease

AT&T today announced plans to launch five new devices from Dell, HTC and Motorola based on the Android platform. The company also announced a major initiative to expand the universe of mobile applications beyond smartphones to more mobile phones ? and spur future app development for emerging consumer electronics devices, its U-verse TV platform, and enterprise and small business workplaces.

At the 4th annual AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas, executives outlined details including:

* New devices that will give customers the most robust choices of major operating systems (OS), including Android?, in the U.S.
* A goal to offer all major smartphone OS app stores
* An agreement with Qualcomm to standardize apps development for mid-range Quick Messaging Devices using BREW Mobile Platform. These devices are used by millions of customers who historically have not had the same convenient access as smartphone customers to the market?s hottest apps
* A new AT&T SDK (software developer kit) to help developers immediately begin to develop apps for these devices
* A significantly enhanced developer program and new relationships with global carriers that are intended to make it easier for developers to distribute apps in markets outside the U.S.
* Future initiatives to enable developers to create more apps for AT&T?s U-verse TV, emerging consumer electronics devices, and businesses
* A new AT&T Virtual Innovation Lab and two new Innovation Centers, which will help developers and spur apps development

?Applications help consumers realize the full value and benefits of mobile broadband networks, services and devices,? said Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. ?Today some AT&T customers can take advantage of more than 100,000 apps ? but only if they have the right handset. Our goal is to bring more apps to millions more of our customers who want convenient access to the market?s hottest apps. At the same time, in the future, we plan to go well beyond mobile devices to spur apps development.?

In addition to ultimately giving more customers more choices of applications, the long-term strategic initiatives announced today will make it easier for developers to cost effectively create applications and reach broader audiences, and help AT&T drive data revenues.

Extend Smartphone Leadership
AT&T will further its leadership in smartphones with the planned launch of five new devices from Dell, HTC and Motorola based on the Android platform. Those devices, which are scheduled to be available during the first half of 2010, include:

* A Motorola smartphone, powered by MOTOBLUR, with a unique form factor and an AT&T exclusive
* Dell?s first smartphone, based on the Android platform and an AT&T exclusive
* A HTC smartphone, based on the Android platform, and an AT&T exclusive

AT&T customers with these devices will benefit not only from the nation?s fastest 3G network but also the ability to simultaneously talk on the phone while surfing the Web or reading email. Customers can sign up for email notifications as more details are available at www.att.com/android.

In addition, AT&T announced its goal to lead the industry in application choices for smartphone customers by offering all major app stores. It will preload the corresponding store for each device ? giving customers convenient access to thousands of apps optimized for their smartphone. Today, AT&T added to existing agreements with Nokia for Ovi store and Microsoft for Windows Marketplace by announcing an agreement for Android Market. It expects to announce more app store agreements in the near future and will offer carrier billing as an easy and convenient payment option for as many stores as possible.

?Apps for All? by Standardizing Apps Development with Brew Mobile Platform
De la Vega also announced a significant new agreement with Qualcomm to standardize apps development by adopting BREW Mobile Platform. With this agreement, AT&T intends to make BREW Mobile Platform its primary operating system platform for Quick Messaging Devices, one of the company?s fastest growing categories of devices.

AT&T customers with these devices historically haven?t had the same convenient access as AT&T smartphone customers to thousands of compelling, new applications. Since AT&T launched its pioneering line-up of Quick Messaging Devices in fall 2008, about 30 percent of the company?s postpaid customers who are new or upgrading have purchased this type of device. AT&T is committed to spurring innovation and apps development for the millions of customers in this category.

Quick Messaging Devices are integrated devices that are value priced and texting centric; they have full QWERTY keyboards, either physical or virtual, and, since this past fall, full Web browsing capabilities. Customers with these devices are more likely to demand apps, subscribe to messaging and data plans, and are a large potential market for application developers, according to AT&T research.

AT&T Chief Marketing Officer David Christopher announced plans to begin rolling out Quick Messaging Devices with BREW Mobile Platform in the second half of the year, so that by year end 2011, about 90 percent of AT&T?s devices in this segment are planned to be based on BREW Mobile Platform. AT&T announced that Samsung will be its first device maker to launch a Quick Messaging Device featuring BREW Mobile Platform. HTC, LG and Pantech also are building devices featuring BREW Mobile Platform for planned availability in late 2010 or early 2011.

?Today, developers must essentially rebuild apps for different handsets and operating systems, increasing their costs, slowing the pace of innovation and stalling the delivery of mobile apps to customers,? Christopher said. ?We want to tear down the barriers and make it much easier for developers to reach our customers ? and for our customers to access apps. Moving to one platform for this fast growing segment of devices will help developers reach millions more customers who want easy access to the hottest mobile apps.?

To help developers jumpstart apps development for AT&T?s BREW Mobile Platform devices, Christopher announced a new AT&T SDK which features support for BREW Mobile Platform, continued support for Java and widgets, and includes tools to help developers tap into AT&T network capabilities as they design and code their applications. The new AT&T SDK is available starting today at sdk.developer.att.com.

Taking the AT&T Developer Program to the Next Level
AT&T has a longstanding commitment to the developer community. It was among the first major carriers to offer a developer program and has been rated the top carrier development program for the past three years by Evans Data. Today, AT&T executives also announced plans, including some launch schedules, for a series of new or enhanced developer resources including:

Technical support for developers via live chat ? something no other carrier, operating system provider or handset maker offers today ? and a tripling of overall tech support by mid-2010.

* Revenue share featuring a standardized 70/30 split for third-party developers in the AT&T App Center.
* AT&T Sandbox, a virtual network environment for developers to test and evaluate applications, which is planned to be available in 2Q 2010.
* AT&T Developer Dashboard, a tool that will let developers track the status of their app once submitted to AT&T, support digital signing of business agreements with AT&T, allow developers to set prices for their apps, and provide performance metrics and customer satisfaction feedback. The dashboard is available now for enterprise application developers and the certification of emerging devices. And for AT&T?s consumer development community, the dashboard will also provide needed automation which is planned for the first quarter of 2010.
* New marketing and referral relationships announced today between AT&T and other global carriers using GSM, the de facto world standard for wireless technology. The companies intend to create streamlined processes that help developers make their applications available to their combined base of hundreds of millions of customers.
* AT&T Developer Council, an advisory group hosted by AT&T and made up of leading development and technology companies and other influencers, such as EA Games, Telenav and Bonfire Media.

AT&T also announced a trial program with WaveMarket to make network location information accessible through Veriplace, WaveMarket?s cloud location aggregation platform currently in use by more than 1,000 developers. Veriplace allows SMS, Web, WAP and IVR developers to develop location-aware apps and services across device categories and participating carriers. The trial program will launch in the coming weeks.

AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan also said that a new AT&T Virtual Innovation Lab will open in Atlanta in the second quarter to provide developer support for speech, location and messaging APIs (application programming interfaces). In addition, two new Innovation Centers, one in the East and one in the West, are planned for late 2010 to provide 3G and 4G RF (radio frequency) development support, testing and demos.

Happy Wireless New Years: A CAUTIONED WELCOME TO FASTER WIRELESS SERVICES AND MY 2008 WIRELESS GOALS

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This is an exciting year for wireless in the US! Now that analog television broadcasting is shutting down completely on February 17th, 2009, there?s going to be a chunk of frequency freed up for wireless bandwidth ? especially for fast 3G cellphone service!!! OHMYGOD I JUST CAN?t WAIT!

How is this going to happen? In preparation for the freed up space in 2009 when analog television will die, the FCC is auctioning this 700mhz spectrum, a highly valued space for services like 3G, off to the highest bidders on January 24th, 2008. This means we as consumers will finally have more choices in cell phone services and faster data download times.

However exciting this is, I am critical of how this process is being carried out. Cutting through all the techie hoopla, there are some critical trends to point in how the government is regulating spectrum space and communication.

This latest auction treats spectrum space as private goods. In its sole federal jurisdiction of radio-magnetic spectrum, spectrum space is handled as private property by the FCC, not public property or public property for mixed purposes?private and public. So there is nothing here that parallels the movement in cable television that created the space and funding for ?public access.? Herein lies one of the most ignored, yet important aspects of the ? information age.? If the very medium in which all of Internet communications will travel through will be entirely dominated by corporations with no socially minded oversight by the government, there will are less chances for social correctives to ensure equal and fair access to this medium. Corporations can charge what they deem as the market rate for broadband access.

In essence, we are moving away from the precedence of Universal Access that was in place for landline telephones (as established by the Communications Act of 1934 and as was retroactively interpreted as the basis of UA policy).
Spectrum inequality leads to Internet access inequality. Compared to the rest of the world, the US is currently in 24th place in broadband penetration, with only 53% of households connected (Point Topic 2007). THIS IS HORRIBLE!!! South Korea is in 1st place! So trends in the telecommunication regulation, like this upcoming auction signals to dwindling of the social right to communication infrastructures.

I am very uncomfortable with this trend! Already within the last 10 years, neo-liberal market policies have radically restructured social institutions. As a result, social goods are increasingly redefined as market goods that are available based on an individualistic cost-benefit analysis, instead of on a collective, common goods rationale. This is scary! As a result, there is a thinning of social citizenship, in what Fraser and Gordon argue that long-standing social rights become stigmatized as ?hand-outs? and incumbent upon the individual or nuclear family to fulfill the social need.

So even though I am SUPER EXCITED to finally be on a 3G network, I keep in mind that there are large groups of people who are excluded from this for various reasons, from digital literacy or to companies not even offering this in their area or just being priced out.

This doesn?t stop me from getting SUPER EXCITED about my next cellphone!!! ANy suggestions? and GUESS WHAT what ? I think I will be ready to switch from Verizon to AT&T! I am mentally preparing for this now. I am also looking forward to seeing how Sprint and Nextel customers like WiMaxx. Although I would love to be on WIMAXX because it?s faster than 3G, it won?t be available in enough areas. In San Diego, I don?t even have cell signal from AT&T or Verizon inside my house! So I am sure WiMaxx will not have much penetration beyond concentrated urban areas. Also, everyone is keeping an eye on Google, who?s trying to enter the cellphone market with their newly developed open software mobile phone application.

HERE ARE MY 2008 WIRELESS GOALS:

1.) get rid of my treo and find another phone that will make me happy. I will have to give up on the touchscreen where I can draw circles around titillations or titicacas ? and I think I will be ready for this. I long suppressed the knowledge that treos are one of the highest emitters of radiation. It?s time for me to face up to it.

2.) Start researching my potential switchover to AT&T.

3.) I need to be more understanding of the screwed up wireless infratructure in the US. We are such a backward wireless country! Children in Japan text better than me.

4.) stop threatening to move to Japan, South Korea or the Netherlands just for a happier wireless world.

5.) Be more involved in raising awareness about spectrum equality and internet access as a social right.

6.) Don?t throw away my used wireless phones ? research where to donate them.

7.) If I switch to At&T, start a strategic campaign to convince all my friends to switch themselves and their entire families over to AT&T.

8.) Stop discriminating and judging people based on their wireless carrier or cell phone.

9.) Be more accepting of friends and colleauges who don?t text message. Just because people don?t SMS does?t mean that they aren?t wonderful people with fulfilling lives.

10.) Start calling friends who are not with the same company as me. Sorry AT&T friends, I have not been a good wireless friend because I am with Verizon. But that may all change!

11.) stay hopeful that in my lifetime that my body can become one big mobile device with a simple operation underneath my arm. My dream is for my body to become one with the Internet. Please, one more sheet of acid will do.

12.) Do a better job of staying up to date with wireless developments in China.

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