How do you get your e-mail on your cellphone? You probably don’t, because moving e-mail onto phones is a hassle.
Gmail has a client for most phones, but what if you want to use a POP account? And what about instant messaging, and all the rest of the communication tools we use today? The sad truth is that most non-voice communication on cellphones take the form of SMS messages, and we know how expensive those can be.

One of the smoothest solutions to all-around phone communications comes from Israeli company Tjat, which has phone client solutions for the full range of traditional PC-style communications – e-mail, instant messaging, and social networking.
Most of Tjat’s services are for operators, but you can check out their take on IM on your phone at wap.tjat.com, or by installing Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile and Series 60 phones.

And while there are other applications you can use on most platforms to access IM and and social networking, Tjat’s is tops – evidenced by the fact that the company has signed a deal with Qualcomm, with the company installing Tjat IM widgets for its Plaza Mobile Internet platform. The blessed event took place Wednesday at GSMA.

“Our solution is turning into the standard in the world market in providing text solutions for leading edge users,” said Dr. Oleg Golobrodsky, executive vice president of Tjat Systems.
“The deal with Qualcomm, in addition to our deal with Opera, will allow us to provide services to users around the world and open doors to enable us to reach cellphone operators who can provide our solutions to hundreds of millions of customers.”
Tjat is hot stuff!

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As you have already noticed we hold great respect for the social music player Tunewiki.
As long as a music player Tunewiki works like a charm, one click and you can watch the song video clip, and the revolutionary auto lyrics display.
But the social features where less intimate and except for the “top played songs by country”, the social information was not much of use, until today.

Tunewiki was fully launched on the OVI store and fully completed a race to a “cross platform” app (except WinMo and WebOS, yes that’s a hint).
The new version of Tunewiki includes a Twitter like feature that allows users to share their musical taste with others by displaying the playlist of songs they have played.
Secondly Tunewiki have worked with Flyscreen (a company that lets users place widgets on top of the homepage screen) for a Tunewiki widget.
We think that Tunewiki social essence is just starting to really pay off for the users, and the social info is now more useful, although we think that there is still a place for innovation.
For the new “cross platform” we wish that more OS’s will be added as the time passes by and more users can tune-in.

watch the new feature attach:

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The Modular mobile manufacturer seems to deliver more lay-off stories than sales stories.
The low sales rate in the Philippines and the unsuccessful attempts to raise more money led the company to lay-off about 100 workers almost half of the company. Who even remember what lay-offs cycle this one is.
Although the rumors are that Modu is working on a 3G device, a touch screen and Android powered, at the end of the day it is still a 2.5G device or a feature phone.
The Jackets that are out there do not transform the device into a music device or a smartphone,  so as for now the jackets are just about panels (did anyone say so nokia in 2000?).
This is a state of to be or to cease for Modu, it has to do some changes, more likely, drastic changes and it is not just about the burn rate or head count.

Providing support to mobile subscribers was always a challenge. The devices’ complexity was not a problem but most users did not know how to solve the problems with their devices and had to go to a service center in order to fix settings related issues with their device. Operators created self-service websites but still it was too complicated for the average user to use.

Smartphones are even more complex with the versatility of installed applications and made the self-service initiatives of the operators almost redundant. the smartphones also present an opportunity to support the device by remote control over the air. Operator’s representatives can take control over the device wherever the subscriber is (so they do not need to go to a service center) and fix the problems with the device.

OTA (over the air) remote control is a good solution to evaluate and maybe even fix problems with the device but raise questions about privacy.

Communitake has solved this problem by letting the operators to pre-installed Communitake’s client on the devices and remote control them when needed.
Comunitake has raised 1 million dollars and it has about 15 employees.
Today it disclosed a deal with the fast growing operator Pelephone that has recently upgraded to a GSM infrastructure.

We have no information how the process is handled to prevent privacy problems. With the iPhone coming to all 3 big operators in Israel in a matter of weeks, and the obligations of the operators to Apple to sell a big amount of devices, there is no room for too many devices. Unless something in the agreement with Apple changes or something dramatic happens, we see a stagnation in the Israeli mobile devices market. So unless Pelephone and Communitake aim to offer the service for iPhone, there is a good chance not too many devices will have the client installed.

Fortunately, Israel’s situation with the choking of the device market doesn’t represent what happens in the world and Communitake’s solution seems on paper as a good way to try and tackle the problem of problems and settings errors in smartphones.