I wrote last week comparing the mobile with the computer, concluding that for most things, the computer was still better. However, I also believe that our phones will turn into our computers and be our primary digital device. Someone left a comment challenging me on this, which is great, as I love comments and the [...]
Archive | March, 2006
Links for March 28
- Profiting on Tweens’ Cell Chats (BusinessWeek) – 5 Years For Nation Wide WiFi (Om Malik) – Japan becoming key testing ground for Symbian’s open approach (MEX Blog) – Mobile Marketing to Children (Mobile Marketing & SPAM) – Picture all the news that’s fit to upload (The Guardian) – BT Launches GSM/VoIP Roaming in the [...]
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Full-Track Downloads Taking Off, Apparently
A new research report says that full-track mobile downloads increased 20 times in 2005 (via Abiro) over the previous year, with global revenues leaping from $12.4 million to $251 million. Let’s focus on that, rather than the ridiculous prediction that the number will be $9.3 billion in 2011 (since there’s no telling how they got [...]
Interesting Flickr Fact of the Day
I was listening to the great This Week in Tech PodCast and they came up with a fascinating little story about Yahoo! and Flickr. Flickr now has 10 million members, all posting photos like crazy. Guess how many orders for prints etc they get every week? 100,000? 10,000? Actually, it’s 80. To rub salt into [...]
Gathering of the Mobilists at CTIA
We had a great 3GSM Gathering Of The Mobilists, so we felt ready for a second one – this time at CTIA Wireless 2006, April 6 in Las Vegas. Caroline Lewko from the Wireless Industry Partnership will be your mobilist host that evening. And many thanks also to Rudy De Waele for making this happen [...]
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Links for March 27
- Exam authority finds rise in mobile phone cheats (The Guardian) – What’s Next for Nortel? (BusinessWeek) – Sun Launches D2C Mobile Java Portal (MocoNews.net) – Watching Internet videos on mobile (S60 Multimedia Blog) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Why Emerging Markets Get So Much Attention
In case you were wondering why mobile companies, particularly handset manufacturers are paying so much attention to emerging markets, from TeleGeography: Warid signs up three million users in 300 days Pakistan mobile operator Warid Telecom says it has signed up more than three million customers since launching in May 2005 and has revealed plans to [...]
Sonera’s New Mobile TV Service Raises Rights Questions
Finnish operator Sonera today announced the launch of its mobile TV service, which streams content from a few channels over its 3G network to phones with Real Player. For €1.90 per day or €9.90 per month, users can watch “all the programmes of Nelonen as they are broadcast, all TV news broadcasts of YLE, news [...]
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Wikipedia Quotes MobHappy
How cool is this? Wikipedia has used MobHappy’s definition of MoSoSo, or Mobile Social Software. I’m a big fan of Wikipedia and find myself using it more and more every day. So I’m really flattered to be quoted in it. Thanks to who ever wrote the entry. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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PayPal And Mobile, A Week Later
PayPal last week took the wraps off its initial mobile offering, and as I pointed out, it held few surprises beyond the fact that it ignored mobile content — when they was the very place many people felt it would attack first, and could affect the most change. Today, MocoNews point out a study that [...]
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