One of the facts of corporate life is that sometimes business models change. Financial or investor pressures have a habit of intruding into the entrepreneur’s ideals and they’re forced to make decisions that they would never have considered in an ideal world or embraced into their original vision. It happens to us all. I sense [...]
Archive | June, 2006
One Phone to Rule Them All
One of the deep questions I have about life is – how rich do you have to be before you drink something from the hotel mini bar without resenting the price they charge you? Or maybe I’m just naturally mean, which is why I carry two mobiles these days, as I hate being ripped off [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 32
It’s my pleasure to bring you the 32nd installment of the Carnival of Mobilists, returning like a prodigal son with this week’s best writing about mobile technology. It brings Russell and I great joy to see the Carnival thriving, and that’s down to the support of the community, so pat yourself on the back. Thanks [...]
California Dreaming
I’m off to spend the week in Palo Alto next week. If anyone fancies getting together for a beer and a bit of a chat about mobile, drop me an email using the link on the right. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Operators, Vendors Line Up Behind Mobile Linux
Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone have announced they’ll work together to develop a Linux platform for mobile phones, culminating in the formation of an independent foundation to push the initiative forward. The foundation will work on: Implementation of a fair, balanced, transparent contribution and participation process across the current and future membership. [...]
Links for June 14
- Marketers’ Perspective on Dot Mobi (MocoNews) – T-Mobile kidConnect Gives Parents Control Over Costs (Mobile Burn) – Mobile body plans cheap 3G phones to boost take-up (Reuters) – Google targets mobile future (BBC) – More on Widsets (Lifeblog) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Own Goal, And How Long Til The BCKS?
Taking Russell’s football talk a step further, FIFA and Yahoo have really scored an own goal with their “official” Mobile Matchcast app. On the first day of the tournament, it appeared to be having some teething issues, showing kickoff as 690 days away. That seems to be sorted, with the countdown now showing the time [...]
Talking With Jon von Tetzchner, Opera’s CEO
I had the opportunity to sit down for a chat with Jon von Tetzchner, the CEO of Opera, when he was in Austin last week to speak at Mobile Monday. Jon’s an interesting guy with a lot of insight into the mobile Web, as you might expect. From talking to him, a few things about [...]
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Cellfire’s Couponing Service
Regular readers of MobHappy will know that back in the dawn of mobile marketing pre-history, I was involved in a venture-backed start-up called ZagMe. We ran a location based marketing service where opt-in users received sms coupons when they went to the mall. ZagMe failed for reasons extraneous to the business model and success of [...]
Paralell Universe of the Mobile Web
As you may have noted, I’m working with AdMob these days and as such, I’m spending a lot of time looking into the mobile web. As a reminder, AdMob is an advertising network, which serves text-based, pay-per-click as on our partners’ websites when they are accessed by a mobile device. Part of my job is [...]
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