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Archive | March, 2008
Spam is off the Chinese Menu
by Russell Buckley on 24. Mar, 2008 in Marketing
There’s a huge backlash against mobile spam going on in China right now. The General Manager on one of China’s biggest outdoor media companies, Focus Media, blithely revealed that the company was in possession of around 200 millions mobile phone numbers and had been sending out 100 million unsolicited messages every day. This is in [...]
My Fellow EMEAicans….
by Russell Buckley on 24. Mar, 2008 in Announcements
Today the voting opens for the MMA EMEA Board elections for the next year and I’m standing again for election. So, please vote for me if you’re eligible to, or lobby a colleague if your company can vote. Competition for an elected seat is tougher than ever and I need all the help I can [...]
700 MHz Auction Ends, Usual Suspects Come Out On Top
by Carlo Longino on 21. Mar, 2008 in Analysis
The license auction for the 700 MHz spectrum in the US ended earlier this week, and as widely expected, Verizon and AT&T won the most licenses. Google didn’t win any, but says it’s cool, and that American consumers are the winners here. It’s a little early to say that, methinks, but we can hope. The [...]
links for 2008-03-21
by linkbot on 21. Mar, 2008 in Links
HTC Names Google Phone – Yahoo! News The mobile phone High Tech Computer (HTC) has been developing to run on the Android software from Google will be called “Dream,” have a large touchscreen and full QWERTY keypad, a person close to the situation said Thursday. (tags: google android htc) Sprint aims for unified architecture for [...]
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What Do You Want?
by Russell Buckley on 20. Mar, 2008 in Announcements
A month ago we organised a free download of the summary of the seminal Black Swan book, provided by getAbstract. We hope you enjoyed it! Well, the nice people at getAbstract have decided that they’re happy to make this a monthly event and offer a free download every month. We can certainly choose what titles [...]
SpinVox and the $500 Million
by Russell Buckley on 20. Mar, 2008 in Announcements
GigaOm reports that the speech-to-text company, SpinVox, has raised a whopping (technical VC term) $100m, on a valuation of $500 million. That’s a very serious amount of money, especially for a Euro/British company, catapulting them into the Skype league. MobHappy sends our compliments, while smugly noting that we spotted this winner back in 2006. If [...]
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone
by Russell Buckley on 20. Mar, 2008 in Analysis
“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” is a new off-Broadway play, that’s getting great reviews and which apparently raises a few interesting ideas about our relationship with mobiles. The idea behind the play is that a guy drops dead (after musing ‚ÄúWhere have all the phone booths gone?‚Äù – take note, Old Navy), after which his mobile [...]
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links for 2008-03-20
by linkbot on 20. Mar, 2008 in Links
Vodafone prepares for a new age – International Herald Tribune A decision by Vodafone to revamp its British work force to sell mobile broadband and other on-the-go data services more aggressively shows that the holy grail of the wireless industry is finally coming into reach. (tags: vodafone 3g mobile-broadband) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley [...]
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Just So We’re All On the Same Page About What “Open” Means
by Carlo Longino on 19. Mar, 2008 in Advice to Operators
It’s still early in the year, but I think my prediction about “open” being the buzzword for 2008 is going to score me a point in our annual review. And, as I also predicted, a lot of it’s BS. First, you’ve got Sprint’s new transcoder, called “OpenWeb” (from OpenWave, natch). As Techype says, “A thoroughly [...]
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