Filed in archive Mobile Content
by Scott on January 31, 2006
Data from market researcher M:Metrics points to Yahoo! as the top US mobile content brand at the moment, followed by AOL with MSN and Google bunched together in third place.M:Metrics says Yahoo! got...
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Tom Baker, generally regarded as the best Dr Who, is to become the voice bhind BT's BT Text service. Accoridng to a recent poll, Tom Baker's voice was the fourth most recognisable celebrity...
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Filed in archive Mobile Technologies
by on January 30, 2006
Cross-posted in part from my own weblog and contains a blatant plug for services my company provides.There's been a lot of talk recently about the SMS long tail, about how carriers are just now...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott on January 29, 2006
Platinum value reader (sorry, stole the joke James) Ben Godfrey sent us this precis of Mobile Opportunities, an event held about 10 days back at Simmons and Simmons in London. I recommend a read...
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Filed in archive Mobile Commerce
by Scott on January 29, 2006
Wireless Watch Japan reports that the new Mobile Suica system, which allows contactless ticketing from a mobile-based wallet, has gone live on the Tokyo metro system. Using the FeliCa-based mobile...
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Filed in archive Concepts
by Scott on January 28, 2006
Maintaining emotional connections over distances is hard, as anyone who has traveled or been away from a loved one for a long time can tell you. The current state of retail mobile technology and...
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Filed in archive Mobile Society
by tom on January 28, 2006
Week 13 of Carnival of the Mobilists is being hosted at Blethers.com. There are quite a few new contributors this week, I'm delighted to see, so I've decided to look at them first in case you...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on January 26, 2006
After weeks of rumors flying, Nintendo has officially unveiled what looks like a pencil drawing of the newly redesigned DS Lite. As one might imagine, it's smaller, lighter, etc. A number of...
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For all the effort pouring into the battle for downloadable music for mobile devices, streamed personal radio has crept up quietly in the meantime, driven by two different factors : the emergence of...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on January 26, 2006
I had to check it wasn't April Fool's Day: Vodafone have announced the ability for content providers to cover the cost of data transfer charges for mobile content as part of the revenue...
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I seem to be writing a lot about O2 recently - whether that's a good or bad thing is yet to be seen. Today's post comes after seeing a passing headline on my way to work this morning, about...
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As you might have seen we have had some changes here at the Mobile Weblog. Tom Gordon gaming and mobile expert and co-founder of Alienpants has joined the editorial team. So too did Scott Smith who is...
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Filed in archive Media
by Scott on January 23, 2006
On a frosty day in Helsinki Nokia as well as Intel Corp., Motorola, Texas Instruments and Modeo, owned by Crown Castle, announced a DVB-H standard working group, the Mobile DTV Alliance, aimed at...
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Filed in archive Mobile Commerce
by Scott on January 23, 2006
Smart Mobs namechecked us earlier in the week, so we are returning the favor. It appears that the big dive in Tokyo stocks last week due to allegations against Japanese Internet company Livedoor were...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on January 23, 2006
With Spain's Telefonica announcing the acquisition of 75% of voting rights attached to O2 plc shares (and that it's offer to acquire O2 has become unconditinal), the board has announced a...
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Filed in archive Mobile Society
by tom on January 23, 2006
O2 has recently published its final set of key performance indicators, prior to finalisation of the acquisition by Spain's Telefonica. The report shows strong growth for O2, with a 12% year on...
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Filed in archive Wireless Access
by Scott on January 21, 2006
So, I am the umpteenth chump to actually blog while in flight, but this is my second time using Connexion-based Wi-Fi access in flight. I am currently on a delayed SAS flight from Washington to...
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Filed in archive Mobile Commerce
by Scott on January 21, 2006
Mobile Box Office has developed an application to allow mobile owners to purchase and carry movie tickets on their handsets. Using WAP, buyers purchase tickets with a secure credit card transaction,...
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Filed in archive Mobile Technologies
by on January 19, 2006
(Full disclosure: My company AlienPants is a provider of mobile content and mobile content delivery solutions.)The guys over at The Register have posted a story talking about the recent problems mBlox...
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Cingular has announced they have taken out restraining orders against Data Find Solutions, Locatecell.com, and 1st Source Information Specialists, all of whom Cingular claim have been selling the...
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Filed in archive Concepts
by Scott on January 19, 2006
Designer Dima Komissarov created the protoype mobile device shown here, which contains your credit card, door keys, ID and just about anything else you want to put in it. Following on the same theme...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on January 19, 2006
O2 are moving rapidly ahead with expanding their i-mode content portfolio in the UK, with the announcement of a partnership with http://www.enpocket.com/. The deal will bring Enpokcet's Time Out...
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Filed in archive Mobile Society
by Scott on January 18, 2006
Sprint released its new survey of wireless users in the US today and there are a few interesting datapoints, though it is largely a marketing exercise.Sprint's key message is that mobiles are...
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Source: GuardianResearchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and academics at the University of Illinois are working on applications that would allow carriers of GPS-equipped mobile...
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