MobHappy

Symbian has announced its Horizon program, which will get developers’ apps into multiple stores with a single submission. Symbian already has a deal in place with stores from Nokia, Samsung and AT&T, and it’s in talks with several more. Basically, instead of submitting their app to each one separately, developers can submit it to Symbian [...]

I pointed out a couple of weeks back that simply getting your app in an app store isn’t a marketing strategy. Apparently the team at VSC Consulting were thinking the same thing, as they’ve now launched AppLaunchPR, a division of their PR firm dedicated to building awareness and driving downloads of mobile apps. Interesting stuff, [...]

App stores abound these days: Apple’s well-known effort has been joined by BlackBerry’s App World, and more recently, Nokia’s Ovi Store, while pretty much every operator, handset vendor and used-car dealer has said they’re going to set up their own shop. A lot of this is based on the huge number of downloads by iPhone [...]

Got an email in from James over at mjelly this week, letting me know they’ve launched a new directory of “mobile 2.0″ services and applications, both on the PC web and on mobile at m.mjelly.com. While it’s just getting started, it looks like a useful tool to find some great mobile sites and services, so [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re in the midst of the Olympics. Have you seen any good Olympic mobile content? Mippin’s launched a great catch-all Olympic category at mippin.com/olympics, where they’ve got content from nearly 100 sources being sucked in to their platform, all for easy reading on your mobile. I’ve also played with US [...]

Russell Beattie announced yesterday that he was giving up on Mowser, his transcoder startup, saying he didn’t believe in the mobile web any more: In other words, I think anyone currently developing sites using XHTML-MP markup, no Javascript, geared towards cellular connections and two inch screens are simply wasting their time, and I’m tired of [...]

Some bright spark took a clip of veteran film director, David Lynch, and turned it into a faux iPhone commercial. While the iPhone trimmings are false, the clip and content is allegedly real and seems to be a very powerful emotional belief by the great man – namely that you can’t watch a movie properly [...]

I wanted to go back and revisit one of the links I posted yesterday, Russell Beattie’s “Crossing the Rubicon of the Mobile Web”. Russell’s overall point is that we’ve reached the point of general acceptance of the web on mobile devices: “Ever notice that no one says stuff like, ‘No one will want to use [...]

An analyst firm has put out a new report on the mobile adult content market, predicting it will grow to $3.5 billion worldwide by 2010. I don’t put too much stock in these sorts of predictions, for any number of reasons (for instance, this one says the mobile video sex chat market will grow more [...]