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Mobease joins forces with Webwag!

fpitoun — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:00:27 +0000

One year after our creation, we are excited to announce today that we are being acquired by Webwag, a Web 2.0 customizabe start page.

We have worked hard to pioneer great mobile widgets and mobile search technologies that can truly enhance the daily mobile experience in the past months.

Joining forces with Webwag will provide our users and partners with an unparalleled experience ranging seamlessly from web to mobile and vice versa.

Expect exciting news and products in the coming weeks.
As from now, our news will be posted here and you’ll be able to follow unofficial news & more from our blogs.

Franck (Webwag’s CEO)
Thomas (Webwag’s CTO)
Florent (Webwag’s COO)

Florent & the mobease team.

ps: here are the Press Releases: english | french

Mobease is hiring

fpitoun — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:29:49 +0000

If you feel like being part of a great adventure happily melting web and mobile, this is the chance to make yourself known! We are hiring!!!

We are hiring talented embedded software developers: We are looking for profiles that either already have Symbian, Windows Mobile or J2ME competences and experiences or that are fluent in C++ &/or JAVA and that are willing to learn embedded development.

We are hiring strong track-record AJAX developers. PHP, Javascript and LAMP sound very familiar for you. A Ruby on Rail experience would be a plus. We are hiring several Ajax developers to join the founding team.

Send your resume at jobs [at] mobease [dot] com and join mobease now in its early stage ! Link us some examples of your work in the email. The job is in France based in Bordeaux but remote location is possible too.

mobifindit! 1.0 now!

fpitoun — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:29:37 +0000

Here we are, mobifindit! 1.0 is now available for download. We are really excited about this initial release and eager to get your feedback.

Here’s a list of the enhancements brought since beta 2:

Search times have been divided by 10!
Searches can be performed while mobifindit! performs an index refresh
We have added settings for choosing which content is indexed and at what frequency
mobifindit! speaks your language: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German
We have squashed some nasty bugs that prevented some elements to be properly indexed
Many minor bug fixes

We’ve done a new mobifindit.com to welcome 1.0, so go and grab it while it’s hot!

Now we are concentrating on S60 3rd edition support and wider platforms coverage.

You can find the PRs here: English, French.

One last thing, for our french fellow speakers, you can find an interview here where we talk about mobifindit! and mobidgets.

mobifindit! and mobidgets!

fpitoun — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:13:00 +0000

Ok, I owe you a real combo update about what’s been going on at mobease recently.

So, on mobifindit!, we are polishing several aspects and will reach 1.0 release at the end of August. We received great feedback both from users, reviewers & investors The other “small” piece of news that’s kept us silent lately is a new project called mobidgets. This has been in the company’s genome since the beginning but only now can we reveal to adventurous widget developers a first alpha!
mobidgets is a complete widgets engine for mobile phones (Symbian & MIPD) in the spirit of Yahoo! Widgets. With mobidgets, one can track the weather forecasts, stock quotes, news, Flickr photo streams or whatever else in a very efficient manner, right from the handset’s idle screen, thanks to these small applications named widgets.
Instead of asking the user to navigate through a bunch of (wap) pages to get this information, mobidgets delivers them in a friendly and bandwidth optimized manner.
Anyway, I’ll talk more about it in the coming months but if you are a developer and are equipped with a Symbian S60 (FP2 or FP3) handset, you can head to http://mobidgets.com, otherwise, be patient, we’ll open a public beta in September.

mobifindit! beta 2 is here!

fpitoun — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:02:00 +0000

We’re happy to announce that mobifindit! beta 2 has just landed with some great new features and corrections:New Features

- Supports email creation for contacts with email addresses
- There is now a help wizard displayed at first launch
- Automatic launch when the handset startsCorrections
- Some applications & bookmarks were only displayed after the 3rd key was typed
- A fixed phone icon was displayed in some circumstances for contacts with only a mobile phonemobifindit! still provides these great benefits:
- Finds instantly any content on the phone
Contacts, MP3s, images, videos & bookmarks.

- Natural language search
mobifindit! uses predictive natural language search:
Type “STE” ie “783″ to call Steve, type “MUM” to call your Mum, etc

- Action keywords
Instant access to the most frequently used applications and functions:
Just type “SMS” (767) to display “New SMS” & “SMS Inbox” entries, etc.

We’d like to invite you to take a few moments to give your feedback about mobifindit! on our forum here: http://www.mobease.com/forum/

We are also interested in knowing how many contacts and multimedia files you hold in your handset in order to make mobifindit! as adapted as possible to your needs.

IMPORTANT: Please uninstall the previous beta before installing this version

The full FAQ can still be found here.

DOWNLOAD
mobifindit! beta 2 can be downloaded here from here.

Cheers,

The mobease team.

mobifindit! beta 1 available :)

fpitoun — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:43:00 +0000

Your patience is today rewarded with the availability of the first beta version of mobifindit!The reason why mobease has jumped into this adventure is that handsets are becoming incredibly powerful and complex and serve both as communication devices and digital hubs.
Most of the “normal users” can’t get through easily accessing all the content and features available on their handsets and services available from their carriers.
With mobifindit!, mobease is taking the best of Google Desktop, predictive text input and web search and shakes it together to deliver an intuitive way of getting things done on a handset.The benefits?
* A complete search engine for your phone
Finds instantly any content on the phone: Contacts, MP3s, images, videos & bookmarks.* Natural language search
mobifindit! uses predictive natural language search:
Type “STE” ie “783″ to call Steve, type “MUM” to call your Mum, etc.
* Action keywords
Instant access to the most frequently used applications and functions:
Just type “SMS” (767) to display “New SMS” & “SMS Inbox” entries, etc.
READ BEFORE TESTING
- please visit http://mobease.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2 for detailed instructions
- mobifindit! is currently only available for SYMBIAN SERIES 60 handsets
- first launch will take anywhere from 5 seconds to 15 minutes, depending on the amount of contacts and files present on your phone and its memory card. You can put mobifindit! in background by pressing the red key.
- feedback very welcome on our forum at http://mobease.com/forum
Enjoy!

4 days until beta 1!

fpitoun — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:29:00 +0000

Here we are, almost ready to release the first public beta.
A great thanks to the early supporters that have tested very early versions and have helped us shape this initial beta.
It will for sure have bugs, caveats and limitations but we’ll give you full information on monday.
Stay tuned!
By the way, did you notice the small change on the home page .

mobease named ‘Guidewire Group Global Innovator’

fpitoun — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:25:00 +0000

We are very proud to announce that mobease has been named a Guidewire Group Global Innovator! and selected for prestigious showcase at Innovate!Europe 2006 in Zaragoza.
We’ve also been attributed a slot for demonstrating findit! on wednesday 05/17 at 10h50, so don’t miss this!
The press release is here for your consumption technorati tags: mobease findit, mobease

Introducing “mobease findit!”

fpitoun — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:59:00 +0000

Here is why this company was founded. I’ve been working for a while in the wireless industry and I’m always amazed by seeing:

How capable the handsets have become and how uncapable are normal beings to use them beyond the dialing functions, even finding someone in the addressbook can be a challenge or a long operation, and the problem is not the user.
How bloated with features these handsets are and how long it takes even for advanced users to learn how to reach and use them, to learn complex and sometimes semi-logic menu structures and logics.
How much information/media is now stored in the handset: Contacts, SMS, emails, Appointments, MP3s, Photos, Videos, Applications…

On the other hand, I’ve seen many people getting completly addict to Google, it’s power and simplicity.
I’ve see these people using Google and typing “Amazon” + [enter] then click the first result, instead of using the address bar even if they perfectly knew the URL.
What this teaches us is that the search engine has become a natural/default interface for many non advanced users that just want to browse the web.
I think that now, you see me coming: We need a search engine for handsets that explores the whole handset’s data and capabilities and gives results immediately. The results can be pure data like a contact name but also actions such as “Compose an SMS”.
So here we are, I’m introducing today mobease’s first product: “mobease findit!”.
Here are some early screenshots of a pre-alpha version:

If you want to enroll for a private beta cycle, nothing’s easier, just go to this page and put your email. We’ll keep you posted very soon!
Tags: mobease findit, mobease

3 Crazy days at the 3GSM - Barcelona

fpitoun — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:52:00 +0000

We’re back from the 3GSM that happened for the first time in Barcelona.
The 4 things to retain about this show (at least for the domains I’m interested in):

Video in all forms is invading the mobile space for real, not only in beta or trials. It ranges from handsets with DVBH tuners to ip streaming and tuner technologies such as Streamezzo with sfr.
Mobile Push Mail is everywhere and I’m very puzzled by the future that such companies as Visto, Seven or Dataviz have in this area, given the giants investment and policy on the area: Microsoft is providing it for free for windows mobile devices with exchange servers, Intellisync, recently bought by Nokia will be part of the standard offering and RIM is still the leader by Far.
Widgets are coming to mobile (yes this is definitely a smaller domain than the others but I’m particularly interested in it ). Opera’s platform provides such a framework, Flash lite also does. Some other contenders are entering the area such as Bluepulse. The area is not yet mature, neither in terms of ergonomy, neither in terms of business models but this is definitely going to change the way people consult information with their devices.
Instant Messaging (IM for the friends) is also everywhere with the community/tribal aspects it brings and of course the associated network data consumptions. The companies are not numerous but legions in this area, ranging from integrated features of the handsets and carrier’s networks to small startups that are jumping in the area and traditional software providers or portals, all providing non unified and competing solutions. This area is going to be a real mess before the users can really IM together from a mobile, from one operator to another, from one country to another.

And the bonus thing to retain is that Barcelona rocks compared to Cannes in terms of infrastructures, weather and night life!

In next post (tomorrow), I’ll say a few words about what mobease presented during the show

Tags: 3GSM, push mail, mobile widgets, mobease

Hard at work and silent

fpitoun — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:22:00 +0000

It’s now been a while since last post, mostly because there are no real public news, but be sure we are hard at work, creating the first iteration of the first product.

Expect great news in the early February time frame!

Gmail goes mobile!

fpitoun — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:23:00 +0000

Cool for my wireless data plan! Gmail has just delivered a mobile (understand “very light”) version of their webmail that I’ve become completely addict to.

You can access it by going to http://m.gmail.com in your favorite mobile web browser.

Google, when you’ve got us…More info here.

Orange!

fpitoun — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:57:00 +0000

Ok, done with the logo! It will be a shiny trendy orange.
Thanks to the fast and furious!

No, really, there’s an issue with the magnifying glass

fpitoun — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:47:00 +0000

Ok, ok, the magnifying glass makes it! It’s wonderful, fits well with the logo, gives it a personality. No discussion on this.The issue is that it’s too close to the first (and not only) product that mobease will deliver. Indeed, it would limit the company to one product. So we decided to invest on the connected/wireless aspect of the company, rather than putting product specific signs in it. The chosen element will be the small waves, that will be used as a leightmotiv in all mobease products, and its logo!Now about the color, for sure the orange didn’t raise that much of interest, so we are trying something different, a flashy green, what do you think?
Ah yeah and the beautiful pink is not yet abandonned!

Working on the logo

fpitoun — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:42:01 +0000

Thanks to my fast and furious agency, here’s a first iteration of the logo.
Really in the spirit but maybe too much find oriented.
Next researches to be posted here…

Here are also some research works:

And if you want to have a look at the talented person behind this work, see here.

The start…

fpitoun — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:45:00 +0000

Ok, there I am, I’ve decided to create a company that will produce simple software for mobile phones.
The goal is to deliver software that will ease the day to day experience on mobile phones, thus create better user satisfaction and higher revenue generation for wireless carriers.
I’m currently in the early process of the company creation, raising some funds, writing first product’s specifications, enhancing the initial business plan and getting a proper presentation, logo et all.
I’ll regularly post updates and more information on this blog on the company’s creation, its first application and the overall progress.