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The 2010 World Cup story as told by Google
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June 19, 2010
By: ccsoya
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Ok this might not have a lot to do about mobile phone or whatever but we like it and there’s a hefty showing of Google search on mobile, so it qualifies.
Here’s the 2010 World Cup as seen from the world’s most used search engine. It’s an interesting perspective, it’s simple and it does built up to a nice climax at the end…we feel the excitement!
Take a look for yourself to see what we mean.
More on World Cup search trends here.
Nokia releases football themed viral videos in time for World Cup
Posted:
June 15, 2010
By: ccsoya
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That’s the question Nokia is asking you, assuming you want to get your hands on one.
In conjunction with the World Cup, Nokia has released a viral video campaign surrounding the dominant theme for this month — football.
The video sees a group of friends having a good time playing foosball. These are not just casual player mind you, in the videos, they pull off some of the most insane moves we’ve seen on a foosball table.
Behind the snazzy foosball action, Nokia is highlighting the video recording capabilities of the N8. The videos don’t say much but the hint is clear, it appears that all of the videos taken for this campaign is done using the N8; but if you take a look at the “behind the scenes” video, you can see that this is not the case.
Although Nokia creates the illusion that the videos where all recorded with the N8, you can be assured that the awesome tricks seen in the videos are all real.
Oh well, the N8 has already potentially proven itself to be worthy video and photo capturing device with its earlier demonstrations. What’s left now is for us to try it out for ourselves.
Take a look at the full set of video after the jump.
(UPDATE 1433hrs 140610) Here is a more straight forward Vuvuzela app that closely replicates the real thing. Hope you have fun annoying the hell out of your friends!
For those of you who’s keeping close tabs on World Cup, you’ll notice that the Vuvuzelas is one of the main conversations in the 2010 installment of the tournament.
It is a cause of interruption for many with commentators calling the sign the horn makes as “annoying” and compared it with “a stampede of noisy elephants“, “a deafening swarm of locusts”, “a goat on the way to slaughter” and “a giant hive full of very angry bees“.
The hearing lost inducing horns are making such a racket that the organizers of the World Cup is thinking of banning them altogether.
But that’s not stopping developers coming up with a Vuvuzela app for the iPhone and it’s available for FREE. The app makes Vuvuzela sound straight from the iPhone.
We doubt that the iPhone’s speaker will be able to induce any hearing lost but it sure doesn’t get any less annoying for some people
Hit up the iTunes link to download.
Tune Talk CEO jumps out of a helicopter
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June 12, 2010
By: ccsoya
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(UPDATE 2003hrs 12062010) Tune Talk has just uploaded of Jason’s jump here.
No, it’s not a suicide attempt but apparently Jason Lo, the CEO of Tune Talk lost a World Cup bet.
He bet that if South Africa didn’t win by three goals he will jump out of a helicopter – with a parachute of course. By now, you would’ve already known that the Bafana Bafana were out of luck, ending their opening game with a draw with the Mexicans.
Lo lost the bet and made the jump today.
What surprised us was the fact the he didn’t do a tandem jump but instead did a solo. Usually, first time jumpers are tied to their instructors in what is called a tandem jump. So for Jason to do his first jump solo is a big deal.
Now we’re wondering if he’s a veteran jumper. If he is then, the bet is off because it’d be a piece of cake for him.
Are you a veteran jumper Jason?
Astro b.Player: How much data do you need to watch a World Cup match?
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June 12, 2010
By: ccsoya
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The 2010 FIFA World Cup is now underway. Although we’ve witness pretty entertaining first matches, we’re not seeing a festival of goals just yet, with two matches producing just two goals.
Here’s hoping will build up as the tournament unfolds.
Ok, so that’s that about the World Cup. We’re pretty sure that many of you would have already tried out the Astro b.Player on your iPhones to catch the first World Cup games live last night.
As far as we can decipher, the b.Player streams live content to your iPhone, so that means you need to have a data subscription to enjoy the privilege. But how much data does it take for you to watch a full 90 min game on the b.Player?
As you know, Maxis offers what it calls an “unlimited” mobile broadband plan. But there’s a catch, you’re allowed full speed (of whatever speed you can get off the network) up to 3GB (total upload and download) after that your speed is throttled until the next billing cycle.
Astro adds History Channel and Bloomberg into b.Player
Posted:
June 11, 2010
By: ccsoya
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During our early discovery of the Astro b.Player iPhone app, we mentioned that the only other channel available for live viewing was Hitz.TV. Now, Astro has added two more channels to the player – History Channel and Bloomberg.
Both channels offer the same content as from the normal Astro feed via decoder, all live.
This is interesting because History Channel is parked under that Astro Learning package and Bloomberg is a part of the Astro News package which are all paid channels if you were to view it on a television set.
With the Astro b.Player these channels are offered for FREE!
We did mention that we see the b.Player being something more than just a World Cup one off special. Could Astro and Maxis be on the verge of offering paid mobile TV service?
We have a inkling that it might be.
Maxis releases World Cup app for iPhone
Posted:
June 11, 2010
By: ccsoya
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As the official mobile broadcaster for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Maxis is going all out delivering extras to its customers.
The live streaming of all the 64 World Cup matches is something really special and it’s exclusive to Maxis subscribers only. There’s also a whole heap of football and World Cup related content on offer including a contest that offers trips to see Frank Lampard and Lionel Messi in London and Barcelona. You can’t help but feel special being a Maxis subscriber during this World Cup month.
And it doesn’t stop there, Maxis has upped the ante with the release of a World Cup app for the iPhone so that the rest of the non-Maxis iPhone users don’t feel left out not being ablt to watch World Cup games live on their device.
Astro B.player: Watch World Cup live on your iPhone
Posted:
June 7, 2010
By: ccsoya
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We saw this peculliar Astro app on the iPhone App Store Malaysia and thought that it could very well be the app Maxis announced earlier. The one where you can watch all 64 World Cup matches live as part of Maxis’ offering as the official mobile broadcaster of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
We weren’t sure if it was, so we downloaded the app to give it a try.
Now, we’re very sure that this is the app that football fans will be using to watch World Cup matches live.
Head on over to after the jump to see the full Astro B.player play by play.
We spotted something very peculiar on the iPhone App Store. It’s an app from Astro (Maxiss sister company) called the Astro B.player.
The description says that its an app that allows users to easily access TV programs direct from the phone.
This is interesting because Maxis announced earlier this year that it will make available all 64 World Cup games live for viewing over mobile phones via specially developed apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
Could this be it?
Download that app yourself via the iTunes link here.
U Mobile rides on the World Cup bandwagon
Posted:
May 23, 2010
By: ccsoya
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The World Cup fever has begun and we can see loads of brands trying to leverage on the one of the biggest events this year. Our local telcos are in it in a big way too with Maxis leading the way becoming the official mobile broadcaster for the ultimate football event.
U Mobile – a telco that’s still looking to find a strong footing in the local market – has just started a promotion campaign around the World Cup theme. Like DiGi’s Bola! Bola! Bola! campaign there’s really not much value in it for the customers.
The U Mobile U Football Mania campaign is just offering some very generic subscription based content on football trivia and news along with SMS alerts on the latest scores and results from World Cup matches. There’s also some free mobile downloads if you’re interested. Although, we had a look at it and it doesn’t look interesting to us.
We don’t get why telcos see SMS alerts and the like as a feasible business proposition when more and more people are getting their updates for free from social media networks like Twitter.
Very simillar to DiGi, U Mobile is also running a contest that offers free travel to anywhere around the world. The difference here is that it’s not for football fixtures. Still, its something we don’t see adding much value to the subscriber. Apart from Maxis – who will be the first telco in the world to broadcast World Cup matches live to mobile phones – it’s funny how telcos are paying big money to associate themselves to the World Cup but at the end of the day really not giving anything of value to the consumer. We think that’s just a waste of money.
What we would like to see is, for example, a competition where we get to choose a country and if that country makes to the World Cup playoffs we’ll be rewarded with free talk time or a free phone or something – for example. That would be more interesting and fun, not to mention cheaper than paying for trips around the world.
Oh well, that’s just us.
In any case, if you’re interested to find out about the U Football Mania, click here.