Abiro Enhances its News Service

London, United Kingdom, February 02, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Abiro provides a broad range of services with focus on the mobile/cell phone user, including ringtones and other mobile content, a casino for use on mobile phones, a news service that can be accessed via mobile phones etc.

Abiro Mobile News has since mid 2004 provided opinionated commentary on mobile phone industry news, and close to 800 entries have been posted so far. “As Skype and iPod are very hot topics today, we decided to add separate news coverage for them”, CEO Anders Borg says.

Abiro Mobile News also provides numerous up-to-date news feeds from popular news services for free access from a PC (without any special news feed client) or from a phone (via the phone’s browser). “This rounds out the news coverage, as it provides a convenient way to read news while on the go”, he adds. “Abiro’s own news coverage is also provided via news feeds”, Anders concludes.

See http://www.abiro.com/news for more information about Abiro Mobile News.

Background Information 

About the Abiro Service 

For those not familiar with Abiro, here’s a listing of services provided, all aimed at the mobile phone user:

Mobile Casino – A casino in your phone, for any moment when you want to kill time, on the bus, on the train, at the airport etc.

Mobile Fun – A very broad suite of mobile content covering Ringtones, Pictures, Animations, Themes, Videos, and not the least a wide range of exciting and low-cost Games (over 2000 from major providers!).

Mobile News – provides critical commentary on things happening in the mobile device industry, which now also has special sections about Skype and iPod. This service is complemented by a broad set of popular and always up-to-date news feeds accessible from a PC (without need for a special application) or a mobile phone.

Mobile Blog – Enables users to easily post text entries to Google Blogger from any mobile phone.

The Lab – A resource for the software developer, now covering also J2ME/MIDP, which is the main application platform used in mobile phones.

Further information about the services is provided at www.abiro.com. Each service is easily navigated, and instructions and possible pricing are available for them all. Access from a mobile phone is done via wap.abiro.com. 

About Abiro the Company 

Abiro started out as a consulting business at the end of 1999, then serving the mobile industry and corporations with guidance for technology investments and enabling of mobile access to Internet services.
The company is now focusing on providing news and content services for mobile phone users.
More information about the company can be found at www.abiro.com/abiro.php. 

Notes 

All described services are fully up and running today, and all efforts have been taken to ensure that they all work well and are easy to use. Users can easily send feedback to Abiro if they run into problems.

Abiro’s WAP site (wap.abiro.com) is one of the more popular WAP sites in the world, being up since 1999, and providing access to the described services as well as some services that are unique to the mobile site. It’s optimised for quick loading and navigation even on very slow connections, and for high compatibility with also older and/or simpler phones.

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