David Beers is getting together this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (yes, it’s a few days late) at his Software Everywhere blog, and needs more entries — so send them in ASAP to mobilists@gmail.com. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Archive | February, 2007
Let the 3GSM Recovery and Chin-Stroking Begin
Finally getting over a bad case of jet lag and a bug I picked up in Barcelona, so it’s time to think back over last week a bit. A few initial thoughts: I’m still so glad that 3GSM left Cannes and moved to Barcelona, it’s better in pretty much every way in my estimation. 3GSM [...]
GPS Makes Safer Drivers
An article in Springwise suggests that drivers with GPS are safer than their locationally challenged counterparts. Across 115,197 rental cars, non-GPS cars had a 12% higher chance of an accident and damaged cars were 5% more costly to repair. Though why they should hit stuff harder, isn’t easy to explain. This is in spite of [...]
Make Your Pitch
During 3GSM, it was interesting to find so many Venture Capitalists who read MobHappy, at least occasionally. This struck me as an opportunity for our readers to attract interest in their company in a short and pithy way – commonly known as an Elevator Pitch. Heaven knows if it’ll work or not, but I thought [...]
Global Peer Awards
On Monday, here at 3GSM, we had the Global Peer Awards, run my Mobile Monday. It was also the opportunity to vote for the Carnival of the Mobilists Host of the Year, won by Rudy De Waele Рcongrats, Rudy! The Global Peer awards was the chance for 23 companies, chosen by Mobile Monday chapters throughout [...]
3GSM Embraces Bluespam and Porn
As the mobile world gathers today at Barcelona in preparation for the 3GSM onslaught, I’ve had a couple of dodgy experiences from the show organisers, who really ought to know better. Firstly, when I was standing in line for registration, I was consistently urged to accept a Bluetooth message from “3GSM”. I’m assuming this was [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists – Khosla Post of the Year!
This was a really, really hard post to write and somewhat accounts for the delay in finally putting it up. I’ve been chopping and changing things for a month now and it’s finally time to get it posted before we embark on 3GSM madness. As you (hopefully) know, the Carnival of the Mobilists is a [...]
MobHappy at 3GSM
Russell and I will both be in Barcelona next week for the 3GSM World Congress, the industry’s biggest annual confab. My schedule is already pretty tight, and so is Russell’s, but if you want to meet up or show something off, feel free to drop me an email I’ll see if we can’t work something [...]
MuMoMo Launches with 180
Monday night saw the launch of MuMoMo, or Munich Mobile Monday, which is actually the largest gathering of Mondayists I’ve ever been to, with about 180 people attending.  We had a great line up of 6 speakers for this one-off special occasion with a mega-party afterwards open to the public, complete with DJs playing cool vibes, [...]
Helio’s First Subscriber Figures — And A $100 ARPU
American MVNO Helio has finally released its first set of subscriber data, and it’s pretty stunning. At the end of 2006 (about six months after its launch), Helio had grabbed more than 70,000 users, and says it’s on track to pass 100,000 early in Q2. Those are all postpaid, and are delivering an ARPU of [...]
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