Nokia has opened the doors of its Beta Labs once more and before any of the tireless boffins inside could even feel a draft, a new and interesting application flew out into the world for us all to poke with sticks.
It’s called Download! (surely the first thing to be updated here should be the slightly unimaginative name, you wouldn’t call a new Nokia music store, Nokia Music Store, oh wait!) and essentially it is a client that through the somewhat amorphous currency of banner ads can pay for and deliver content to your phone.
So to say it more simply it is an ad-funded download client. The app is available now and all of the content that can be accessed via it is currently free. Worth checking out then.
(Via Nokia Beta Labs)
MySpace looks set to go mobile in the US, with a little help from advertisers.
According to Mobile Entertainment, Fox Interactive – which is owned by Rupert Murdock as well as MySpace - will launch an ad-funded version of MySpace for American mobile users.
The new mobile version of MySpace will be offered as a downloadable application. It will let users do all they can normally do on MySpace such as send and receive messages, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs and amend their mood status, all from their phones.
The application, which will be free to download, will feature adverts from selected companies while a version with more features will be available to AT&T and Helio subscribers.
Mobile Entertainment also said that versions of other sites such as as FoxSports.com, IGN.com and film review site Rotten Tomatoes will also launch as part of Fox Interactive’s strategy of taking its raft of websites onto mobile phones.
