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Why? Because more than 4 Billion people is connected and it out numbers every other media such as the 1,5 billion TV sets, about the same in credit cards and little more than 1 billion computers. The rate of growth is still amazing and in many countries there are more mobile phones than people inhabitants. Almost every grown up person in the world has a mobile phone – “always on/always with me/always personal” and most are internet enabled.

Why not use this channel? This is the paradox – why is this channel not in use as much as it should? There is no doubt that all your current and future customers and clients is using the mobile phone. The question is why are you not reaching out to them in the mobile context? With the right services and activities you can expand your business scope – new services for existing users, find new users and new revenue streams. There market is there – where are you?

Yes, there is some issues that need to be considered when going mobile, but of course it’s like you entering a new market, you need to do some serious thinking. The difference is when entering this market you already have customers only not existing in this “always with me context”. Start of by marketer your mobile service directly to them – from your site, via email or twitter or what ever tool you want to use. Not that everything already existing on Internet is a potential service in the mobile context.

Don’t sit on your hands – act now – others are

Who uses the mobile internet and why this is not important

Will the business models of web 2.0 services work when expanded to the mobile?

The Reversed Long Tail – Key to the success of mobile Internet

Why Google Sees Cellphones as the ‘Ultimate Ad Vehicle’

$400 for the best design at @99designs! Design themes for mobile application – Follow the link to the competition at 99designs

The objective, and challenge, of this design contest is to provide an appropriate professional design for the themes (background pictures) that balances the technical and creative aspects of our application.

We are looking for themes consisting of nine background pictures as described in the technical description here

Squace one of the winners!

- Invited to present the company to the world’s most influential IT decision makers at the conference ETRE08.

This year’s ETRE conference takes place in Stockholm, 14 to 17 October. ETRE, organized by Red Herring, is one of the world’s most important and prestigious meeting places for IT and telecom leaders. More than 500 personally invited people from all over the world meet and discuss technology and business trends in IT.

Now that ETRE for the first time visits Sweden, InvestICT and Red Herring decided to make it possible for 10 innovative companies to present themselves and their products at the conference. Red Herring was so impressed by the high level of the applications that they finally selected 14 companies. None of them was possible to resist!

In addition to Squace, the following companies were invited: Appear Networks, Bambusa, BehavioSec, ChromoGenics, Density, Josh, Kaskado, Mobi Soft, Nano Radio, Penny, Popcatcher, SERSTECH and TIFIC.

Squace wants to thank Red Herring and InvestICT for their confidence.

San Francisco, CA. September 18, 2008

Swedish start up rockets from 0 to more than 250,000 downloads; adds access to 35 new U.S.
sites; now works on more than 600 mobile phone handsets.

Squace, www.squace.com, creator of the free application that makes surfing, searching and sharing Internet content possible on ordinary mobile phones without typing, today announced more than 2,000 copies of its free phone software are now being downloaded daily and that more than 250,000 people around the world have started using Squace since its introduction in the United States two months ago.

The Swedish start-up also used Mobilize 08, GigaOm’s next-generation one-day mobile conference, to announce the addition of 35 new U.S. Websites to the Squace family, as well as support for more than 600 popular mobile phone handsets.

Read more here.

Download pdf.

Rebtel is a new way to make international calls* from your mobile phone at super low rates.
Rebtel gives you local numbers where you live that connect you to your international contacts. Instead of crazy per-minute charges or rip-off calling cards, you just pay your mobile phone operator for a local call, and pay Rebtel a tiny fee on top of this for the international part of the call.
This means that a Rebtel call is like any other international call – but much, much cheaper!
Get the “Rebtel” site in Squace, click here

*You can currently join Rebtel if you live in any of this countries

To make a call and sign up for Rebtel do following:

1. Open the Rebtel site and click “Sign up to Rebtel” (or log in with your Rebtel PIN code, if you have an account already).

2. Fill in the registration form; Name, E-mail and choose a PIN code.

3. Now you can see all your Rebtel contacts, add new ones and call them via Squace.

So just add the international numbers of your friends, dial the local number and talk, paying much less for these calls.

Start calling now, Try 10 minutes for FREE

“Rebtel is unique in that it allows users to call India from the U.S. for the price of a local call between friends in the U.S. for just 5 cents a minute.” – India Journal, (May 30, 2008)

“… there are a handful of services available that allow you to make cheap and sometimes even free international mobile-to-mobile phone calls. Rebtel is one of those services, and trust me, you’ll be glad you found it.” – Yahoo! TECH, (October 31, 2007)

Since the number of Squace users is growing really fast now, it is the right moment to have a closer look into the speed of the system and afterwards to improve its performance. Therefore, we have focused our engineering team on the performance, which would be our new goal for next few months. We are continuously working to decrease loading time and increase user experience. We want to make Squace work faster, faster and faster.

We have started working towards new short term strategy for few weeks now, and we already have got very positive results. In the last few weeks we have speeded up our web page. It works much faster now, check it out yourself!

However, there is no time for break in the Squace team. Now we have to face even more challenging task, which is to make Squace work faster in the phones. This project is under deep development for the moment, but in the soon future our users will be able to experience faster mobile browser – Squace.