In autumn 2007, the new e-ticketing – or more precise mobile ticketing – solution called "Touch&Travel" will be tested in a first pilot. The system, created by the German railway company Die Bahn and Vodafone is taking mobile ticketing in Germany to a next level. Mobile ticketing projects in the past always tried to reproduce the old fashioned process: Mehr …

Many developers started to experiment with iPhone specific interfaces for their applications (like 37 signals TaDa List) or even new applications for the mobile phone (like the dashboard-like widget-launcher gridget from CulturedCode).
Apple completed their developer resources for the iPhone. They now provide also sample code in the Apple Developer Connection besides the iPhone web development guidelines discussed before. "Puzzler" is a fun-app that shows how to create a web application with JavaScript and different mouse-handlers for user-input.
Joe Hewitt created “iUI”, an iPhone web application development bundle. Don’t worry – it sound complicated, but it isn’t . It just helps developers to create iPhone applications with the iPhone look and feel with JavaScript and CSS.
I cannot wait to get the iPhone in Europe!

Apple just released some insights for iPhone web developers – and everybody who wants to optimize his website or web application for the iPhone will find valuable tips inside. Some remarkable facts: Mehr …

Hard times, especially for German mobile and online muisc start-ups. Accourding to the GEMA, the German authors’ society for music, the ringtone company Jamba did a great job at BITKOM, the German Association for Information Technology,
Telecommunications and New Media: The GEMA framework agreement for all BITKOM members is terminated. Now every company has to negotiate by itself for the specific music rights they need. Mehr …

Until June 27th the startup duduku.de is auctioning itself at eBay – including domains, trademark, web 2.0 application, design and company.
Until now, dukudu.de is running the beta of their twitter-like friend information service. You can inform your different circles of friends via a Web- and SMS-based interface: What you are actually doing … or what is going on right now.
The project team did not manage to get the needed capital for a nationwide rollout and the team also separates for private reasons. It’s a great pity!
Some interesting facts for developers: dukudu.de was realized in PHP, based on the CakePHP-framework, and MySQL. They use inbound-SMS numbers from mobilant.de in Germany … at least in beta mode.

Sources: basicthinking.de, Auction: ebay.de

Update:
The German internet company allesklar.com AG bought dukudu for 36,309.24 Euro (without VAT). Not bad.