Avatars

Video Messages From ShortTV - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 18 Nov 2005 08:11 AM PST

ShortTV has worked with mBlox to put up a video messaging site: Check it out at WizWak.com. The service allows people to send video messages to their friends (or complete…

Vodafone Netherlands & MSN Offer IM Interactivity - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:11 AM PST

Vodafone Netherlands has hooked up with MSN so its mobile users can use MSN Messenger to chat with people on the computer network...Vodafone Messenger has been around for a while…

Mobile Games Go Social - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 13 Oct 2005 02:11 PM PST

There’s a couple of games announced recently that are more role-playing than FPS, and which are likely to lend themselves to becoming multiplayer social games pretty easily...the games are not…

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Comverse Makes A Billing Buy - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 10 Oct 2005 06:10 AM PST

Comverse—which sells the Klonie line of avatars—has purchased the GSS division of CGS Systems International for roughly $251 million in an effort to beef up its presence in the converged…

Artificial Life Signs Sony BMG For V-Disco - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 06 Oct 2005 01:11 PM PST

Artificial Life has agreed on terms for a license deal with Sony BMG to use the label’s music in its V-Disco product. V-Disco is scheduled for launch in Hong Kong…

Klonies Go A-Roaming - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 03 Oct 2005 07:10 AM PST

Avatars are becoming big business online, and I think they’re likely to recreate that success in the mobile world as consumers begin to personalize their phones. At CTIA I met…

Veepers Creepers! - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 27 Sep 2005 07:09 PM PST

Lucent Technologies has signed up Pulse Entertainment to provide its Veepers technology for Lucent’s Video Greeting application, which will in turn be onsold to as part of the “Market Advantage…

Artificial Life Plans MMRPG - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 18 Aug 2005 06:08 AM PST

Artificial Life—of V-Girl and V-Disco fame—is apparently planning a massively multiplayer role-playing game for mobiles. The Java game is due to be released in the fourth quarter and will “let…

Digital Music Boom In Asia - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 11 Aug 2005 08:09 AM PST

Analysts at the launch of Soundbuzz in Hong Kong predicted that “mobile music sales in Asia will exceed physical sales by 2008”...which is an interesting prediction. ”Key to Asia’s boom,…

Vodafone Introduces Mobies - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 26 Jul 2005 02:07 PM PST

Vodafone and Player X have teamed to offer ‘mobies’, billed as “a cross between a mobile game, a tamagotchi and a screensaver”. Earlier this month Mobeon announced a similar bit…

Animated Avatars For Videomail - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 25 Jul 2005 04:07 PM PST

Mobeon has released some animated avatars to spice up the experience of consumers navigating the menu options in voicemail. “The avatar is designed to replace traditional voice and text-based instructions.…

Artificial Life Releases V-Girl Version 2.0 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 25 Jul 2005 07:08 AM PST

Artificial Life has released Version 2.0 of the award winning game V-Girl...the new version has “many new interactive and innovative features such as: multiplayer contests, locked and secret scenes, interactive…

Porn Star Starts Mobile Advice Column - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 21 Jul 2005 02:07 PM PST

I don’t know where this is going...computer animation firm DA Group has created a “digital caricature version” (read: avatar) of Ron Jeremy, the cult star of 1,600 porn films for…

WeeWorld Announces New CEO - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 27 Jun 2005 07:07 AM PST

WeeWorld, the creator of the WeeMee avatars, has announced that Celia Francis is the new CEO for the company, coming from executive vice president of business marketing for T-Mobile International.…

More Crazy Frog Fun - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 22 Jun 2005 07:06 AM PST

Well, they’ve done it. Jamster has created some friends for Crazy Frog, and they also have musical aspirations. The group, Prime8, is billed as “the first ever rap collective to…

Organising Your Social Life - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 14 Jun 2005 07:06 AM PST

This is a pretty good idea...a graphical representation of your friends and family and the last time you had contact with them. “While tending not to let things slide in…

Six Contract Wins And Â£3.5m Placing Lift DA - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 24 May 2005 02:06 PM PST

DA Group, which creates avatars, has announced six new contracts, although it has refused to detail who the contracts were with. The description of one is quite interesting: “He said…

Artificial Life Launches 3G Products With Taiwan Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 24 May 2005 08:05 AM PST

Artificial Life has signed a deal with Taiwan Mobile to jointly launch a Chinese-language version of Vivienne, the Virtual Girlfriend. The language shouldn’t have been an issue—Vivienne already speaks six…