MiniFiz - Moblog (Mobile Blogging) for girls

When you connect to www.minifizz.com or via a WAP site on your mobile, you first create your own avatar (your Popp’s) and style it as you like with actual clothes and accessories adapted to the Popp’s. Then you start sharing with other members of the community via your FizzBlog or on the Forum.

Stay connected with other MiniFizz members through your FizzBlog. Share your mood, pictures, projects, passions… And comment or answer on so many different topics. Interactivity is a must for girls!

The Community is constantly animated with games, quizzes and contests and you can win many prizes of which the actual clothing and accessories of your Popp’s !

Create a web & mobile universe of multi-facetted girls, with diverse interests, and not at all stereotyped as most services targetting girls are.

When connecting to Canal MiniFizz, a user will become a MiniFizz herself with the creation of her own avatar with her own looks (including piercing, tattoos) using « MiniFizz Popp’s » ; then she can share her life and her emotions with other members of the community in her « FizzBlog » , a web and mobile based blog. Posting an image by MMS or a live comment from wherever we are becomes so easy.

US MMS traffic surges 40% over last quarter

Mobile 365 is reporting that US based Multimedia Message Service (MMS) traffic has surged 40% in the second quarter of the year. MMS is most commonly called picture messaging by carriers, but other types of multimedia can be included. The US now leads the world in MMS traffic.

Total U.S. MMS Mobile Originated (MO) traffic for the second quarter was 52,071,114 MO messages; total traffic for the first quarter was 34,405,598 MO messages. MMS mobile content includes video, photos, audio, and rich text such as wallpaper, ringtones, games, and applications.

Mobile 365 handles messaging interoperability among carriers and currently processes over 2 billion messages per month.

Ultra-Bling Bling !

Now it's getting beyond a joke. Moscow-based JSC Ancort Company has announced a smartphone designed by Peter Aloisson that features sections made of rose gold, along with 50 diamonds embedded in the case. The phone, which features additional encryption technology alongside the more usual SMS, MMS, e-mail, Internet access, WAP, Java and a media player, will set you back a cool US$1.3 million.

Of course, if it gets stolen, it won't be for the content of the phone, making the encryption aspects not that interesting - I'm sure the 40 white and 10 blue diamonds would be far more interesting to any potential thief...