The FCC’s auction of some nice 700 MHz spectrum licenses began last week — you’ll remember these as including the ones in which Google has been interested. In particular, the big G played a role in getting open-access requirements attached to the C block nationwide license, meaning that if bidding for it topped $4.6 billion, [...]
Archive | January, 2008
links for 2008-01-31
Blyk Strikes Dutch Vodafone Deal, Goldman Sachs Invests (tags: blyk) FT.com / Companies / Media & internet – Amazon website goes wireless (tags: amazon m-commerce) Google Mobile AdWords: Can‚Äôt Track Conversions Accurately? | mocoNews.net (tags: google adwords) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Location is Back
I was chairing a panel on Monday at W2Forum’s excellent Mobile Search and Advertising Forum in London. It was great to catch up with many old friends and meet a bunch of new people too. One of the curiosities of the conference was that Location Based Marketing kept highjacking the day, despite enjoying really very [...]
links for 2008-01-30
Judge bars unauthorized sales of phone records | The Register that’s great… but why not make it illegal for phone companies to give out the records to unauthorized people? (tags: pretexting) Motorola may exit its handset business: analyst – MarketWatch Richard Windsor from Nomura is a sharp tack, but not sure I agree here. Not [...]
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Nokia Buys Trolltech, Or How Nokia’s 40% Market Share Becomes A Big Lever
Monday’s big news was of yet another Nokia acquisition, this time dropping $150 million for Trolltech. Trolltech is best known as a mobile Linux company, thanks to its Qtopia software and Greenphone prototype handset. But the real meat here is its decidedly less sexy developer tools, in particular Qt, which lets developers create applications for [...]
LazyWeb request for Twitter + Flickr replacement-type thingie
When I was at CES a few weeks back, I used the MH Twitter and Flickr streams to post brief bits and photos from the show. I’m always on the prowl for a better solution, and while I think I’ve got something that will work a bit better for MWC in Barcelona, I thought I’d [...]
Is Mobile Music — Finally — About To Take Off?
I’ve been watching the mobile music market pretty closely for some time, even going so far as to start a news and links blog about it a few years ago. I gave up after a while, though, because it seemed like the industry was constantly stuck in neutral, never really making any progress, thanks to [...]
Nice One, ShoZu: $12m Third Funding Round
ShoZu is one of my favorite mobile apps of all time, and probably the one I use the most often, as it makes uploading photos from my mobile to my Flickr stream so simple. It’s been great from the get go, but the excellent team over there keeps on making it better and better — [...]
links for 2008-01-29
Nokia to Share Revenue of Bundled Music With Mobile Operators (tags: nokia ovi) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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getAbstract – A Quick Fix of Wisdom
One of the interesting companies I’ve met with recently, is getAbstract, who offer a great service for info junkies like me. Their proposition is that they take leading new and classic business books and summarise them into 5 pages. I was interested to see how well that could work, to be honest. I mean, could [...]
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