– Alcatel-Lucent Mobile On Landline: Alcatel-Lucent has introduced Rich Communications Manager, an interface intended to bring a wider range of features to landline, mobile and IP-based phones. It will let landlines have mobile features like text messaging and photo sharing, and is built on a web-portal interface so people can potentially use it to access web-based e-mail accounts, manage Facebook updates, upload pictures or transcribe voicemails into text. The target customer for Alcatel-Lucent is a phone service provider, which can use it to add value without building a new system. (ZDNet UK)
— Forbes Mobile Reader: The Forbes.com Mobile Reader for BlackBerry (pictured, above) has been launched worldwide, which delivers headlines and updates from Forbes.com to BlackBerrys. Users will get free access to Home Page News and channels such as Markets, Business, Personal Finance, Entrepreneurs, Technology, Forbes Life, Opinions and Leadership. It also offers tabs including “My Stocks”, “My Keywords” and “My Feeds” which can include RSS feeds from other sites.
— Black Beat: Music magazine Black Beat has launched a “Pimp Your Phone” lineup of celebrity wallpapers for 99c. Celebrities include Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Bow Wow and Barack Obama. (release)
— Nielsen Business Media: Nielsen Business Media has signed a deal with mobile advertising company Mojiva which will see ads on its mobile sites for The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek and Brandweek. (release)
— Device Anywhere: Mobile testing company DeviceAnywhere has signed a deal with mobile transaction company mBlox to offer DeviceAnywhere Proof Center, which lets mobile content developers or authorized agents run testing and certification processes to ensure full compatibility against the requirements of operators, operating systems or handset manufacturers on any of DeviceAnywhere
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