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Job Hunting via SMS - Malaysia

Macro Kiosk Bhd and JobStreet.com launches SMS services for Jobseekers. Jobseekers can receive alerts on being shortlisted for a job, requests for résumés by potential employers, scheduled interviews as well as new jobs. Postpaid subscribers are charged 50sen for each SMS alert; prepaid subscribers can pay RM50 either by credit card or by cheque for 125 SMS credits. This is equivalent to 40sen for each SMS alert.

Using SMS to order pizza – UK

SMS messages have become a very popular tool for communication and hardly any surprise to find out that a company is now offering the option to order pizza using SMS. A Welsh company - Mobile Mentality has developed m-commerce solution Txtapizza that enables pizza business across the UK. The solution is developed in partnership with Irish-based ESP Technologies Ltd

Such services has already been a success in NZ:

In New Zealand, for example where this system has been trialled, the response rate has been phenomenal with around 25% of all the orders received via SMS -of these 50% were new customers.

How does it work?

The Txtapizza offering, which is the initial service deployment of this application, receives the customer's message, retrieves the registered delivery address and then requests confirmation from the customer within seconds. The order is then sent to the pizzeria along with delivery details.

Creating Bollywood gaming content for India

Gaming content in India is distinctly Western flavor, and now companies such as Paradox Studios are concentrating on bringing more Indian content on to mobile and PC based games. The company is currently making games on Bollywood movies and Indian heroes.

…pre-movie promotional game for a Vikram Bhat movie called `Jurm', starring Bobby Deol, Milind Soman and Lara Dutta. The game will run a contest wherein the top 5 people with the best scores will be invited to meet the stars of the movie.

Majority of the mobile games developed by Paradox Studios is based on the Java platform. However, they will soon be releasing BREW based games as well.

Mobile2Win is another innovative mobile entertainment company that has also developed Bollywood themed mobile games such as Dev, Lakshya Survive, Main Hoon Na, Kismat and Bardaasht. The games are exclusively available to Airtel subscribers. Click here for other Indian themed mobile games.

Related:
: Interview with Anurag Khurana, CEO of Paradox Studios

Premierliga Mobile games

Genera Mobile, provider of multimedia content for mobile especially soccer and who also holds exclusive wireless rights for the Spanish Soccer league is launching two games – Spanish League Freekick and Spanish League Corner. A few snippets:

These mobile games feature all teams from the League including star teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona. The teams features corner and freekick specialists like Beckham, Carlos, Zidane and others. The user can choose his favourite team and play through the various round robin matches, score points and qualify to reach the knock out stage. Once in the knock out stage, the teams play through, quarter finals, semi-finals and final to win the title.

The game is developed by Mobile2Win - Indian game developer – Mobile2Win, which has developed over 120 mobile games targeting casual gamers:

Ravi Shankar Bose, Head of Content Operations in Mobile2win revealed another big step for Mobile2win "Now gamers from all over the world can buy games from our gaming portal http://games.mobile2win.com through premium SMS, IVR, paypal and credit card. We wanted to start off by offering some of our best games and are proud to kick off with the Spanish League games as our first offerings. The games will be sold at a promotional price of 1.5Euros initially"

Other mobile sports games developed by Mobile2win include Kapil's Challenge, Euro Corner - Germany v Netherlands, Foos ball e.t.c

Big Brother mobile game

Overloaded – leading developer and published for TV related video games for mobile phones has gone one step further by releasing the Big Brother mobile game. The game is released in partnership with Endemol – the developers of the famous Big Brother TV series.

Overloaded is already making waves by developing games for a niche area and has developed other TV branded games like FearFactor, Deal or no Deal. Together with Dupuis they are also developing a series of games around the cartoon and TV character Largo Winch. More

Telstra launches i-Mode travel services

Under Telstra’s partnership with Flight Center, Tourism Victoria, Zuji and Best Flights, i-mode subscribers will be able to find travel information.

Subscribers will be able to opt-in to receive e-mail updates and special offers from travel companies through the i-mode e-mail and picture messaging services. The customer can then book via the i-mode site, or click on telephone links within the i-mode pages to automatically dial the number listed.

Local travel content will also be available from content partners such as Sensis Whereis Maps and Directions, Connex Melbourne and Tourism Victoria.

Related:
: Telstra partners with Turner Broadcasting to provide it's i-mode subscribers with access to CNN and Cartoon Network content.

: In a push to popularise MMS services in Australia, moodmessaging a local company has released IAmEmo -- a cartoon lizard which helps display the sender's mood. More

Casting Miss World vote by SMS

This years Miss World Contest will get a “Pop Idol” style revamp and become more interesting for viewers. For the first time viewers can vote via their mobile phone, interactive TV remote control or online.

Macrospace and Cartoon Network launch 3D racing game

Cartoon Channel and Macrospace launches “Wacky Races” a 3D racing game for mobile phones. This is the first 3D style game introduced by Macrospace. The game is available on all color S30, S40 and S60 Nokia Handsets as well as selected Sharp and Motorola handsets. More

'Wacky Races' is the first mobile outing for Peter Perfect, The Gruesome Twosome, Penelope Pitstop, Professor Pat Pending and all the other crazy characters from the original animated series. 'Wacky Races' features six brilliant tracks to race, with jumps, tunnels, tumbling boulders and loads of other hazards to challenge even the most skilled racer. There are also plenty of powerups that you can collect and use to help you beat the other racers to the finish line. The game features all 11 Wacky Racing teams, each with their own unique skill - from the Slag Brothers' Speed Ram attack to a special smokescreen belched out by Luke and Brother Bear on the Arkansas Chugabug!

Click here for other Cartoon Network branded mobile games.

Related:
: Macrospace won the best mobile game crown at the 4th Annual Mobile Choice Consumer Awards in London for it’s flagship title – “Fatal Force: Earth Assault”.

: Experience Gaming interviews John Ozimek of Macrospace on the company’s collaboration with entertainment giants Square Enix and Cartoon Network.

Kuju Wireless to launch FIM Motocross Games

Kuju Wireless Publishing has acquired exclusive worldwide license from Youthstream to develop and publish FIM Motocross World Championship branded mobile games.

Major teams participating in the Championship will feature in the games and include: Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Aprilla. The sport attracts major TV and news coverage across the world and is broadcast on major TV stations including Eurosport (Europa), Sky Sports (UK); Fox Sport World (USA), ESPN (Latin America), Speed Channel (USA-Canada-Mexico), Star TV (Asia) and RAI Sat (Italy), with an estimated potential TV audience of 940 million (MX1).

3 Italy producing own soccer TV show for mobiles

93° Minuto will offer videos of the Italian Championship football goals; match highlights, football commentary and interviews with players, and is the first TV format to be fully produced by a mobile operator. Pricing is 2 Euros for 5 minutes.

93° Minute enriches the "La Tua TV" programs, the first real TV in mobility: not only reality shows, cartoons and entertainment, but also the best of the Italian soccer Championship in near live.

Price cuts for other soccer related services:

3 cut up to 30% the price of the videoservices about Soccer, included in the section StadioLive of the Mobile Portal 3. For example, to watch in near live a Goal of one of the "3" teams, of the Champions league or the national team, the cost is only 60 € cent, while to watch it recorded, costs only 30 € cent.