October 1st, 2008Canadian mobile startups make good
# Montreal’s OZ communications sells to Nokia. The scoop: “What OZ does is enables branded (think Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, MySpace, etc.) email, instant messaging and social networking on handsets. Their focus has been consumers and they had typically worked with feature phones. They have recently moved up-market with an enterprise-like “Smart Mail” offering aimed at professionals, small business owners and frequent email users.”
# Fonolo’s mobile app wins Judge’s prize at mobilize We’ve written about fonolo before, and should have mentioned this story earlier. Great voice 2.0 applications here, and now on mobile. Fonolo is like a voice-bot that navigates call centre trees for you… or any other applications you can think of, they just released an api.
# Got your own recent mobile success story? send it in :)
By the way, in the back of our collective brain here at WirelessNorth.ca, we’re working on a new presentation deck “The State of the Wireless Industry in Canada is… Awesome”. You may recognize this as a counterpoint an earlier, alternate, thesis.
