Open Gardens |
Jul 04, 2008 11:31PM
Hello I am creating an event/workshop called Mobile Web Megatrends I am looking for key developments this year and next year(2008/2009) So, in my view the Mobile Web Megatrends in 2008/2009 are a) The evolution of the browser(Opera, Nokia) b) Location based services 2.0 - (Cell id databases) c) APIs - network(GSMA, OpenAjax, Bondi) d) Widgets e) Advertising models including analytics f) Mobile social networks g) iPhone h) Android What else? What more can you add? Many thanks kind rgds Ajitt [...]
Wap Review |
Jul 04, 2008 01:15PM
The iPhone has done so much to generate interest in using the web on phones with its big, beautiful screen and powerful browser with full JavaScript and CSS support. But the iPhone feature that seems to excite people the most is "Pinch to Zoom". Apple has given the UI, including the browser, a multi-touch interface that lets you use two fingers to zoom; you slide your fingers apart to zoom in and see more details, slide them together to zoom out [...]
Wireless Wanders |
Jul 04, 2008 09:16AM
There is no cooler gadget right now that the Flip Video, which is the easiest-to-use video camera on the market. What’s more, it has built-in idiot-proof software (Mac and PC) that enables you to download the clips, share them and even edit into short movies. The device plugs straight into the USB port and the software runs from the device. It has YouTube sharing and other video sharing services built directly into the software. This seems such an obvious way to [...]
Mobile Open Source |
Jul 04, 2008 09:01AM
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Kristin White for TalkTech TV. Here you have the interview, with a demo of Funambol at the end. Funambol has developed open source mobile messaging software that provides any type of mobile phone with email, calendar, and contact management functionality, similar to the BlackBerry interface, but completely free. I had the opportunity to speak with Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol and a native of Italy. He speaks about the tremendous demand for free [...]
Wireless Wanders |
Jul 04, 2008 09:01AM
I’ll be taking part in Visual Web Convention in London, speaking in the panel session “Session 3: Mobile & x-platform Social Networks,” chaired by David MacQueen, Screen Digest. Other speakers include: Scott Weiss, Human Factors International Tom Gordon, Alien Pants There’s a Facebook Garage special discount for industry colleagues, with a low ticket price of £72 ( VAT) with a few tickets left for 9th July. (Yes, that’s 72 total entry price, reduced from 499, not 72 off.) Go to www.viswebconvention.com/pages/DelegateBooking.htm [...]
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 04, 2008 06:47AM
David Murphy catches up with Pascal Lorne, CEO of mobile Instant Messgaing company Miyowa DM: So Pascal, you’ve just closed an $8 million (£4 million) funding round. What are you going to do with the money? PL: We’ll use it to finance the development of our US operations. We’re now a leader in Europe and Asia for mobile IM (Instant Messaging) and we want to take advantage of this position to go to the US market. We’ll also use it to [...]
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 04, 2008 05:01AM
Orange has announced the launch of an ad-supported video magazine service on Orange World called ‘Zap!’ The new service will offer free video clips to all customers with a video-enabled 2G or 3G handset on both Pay As You Go and Pay Monthly contracts.The service allows customers to access video clips for free in exchange for watching advertising before their chosen video. Zap! will feature celebrity, lifestyle, news and entertainment clips from broadcasters such as ITV, Sky, BBC Worldwide and ITN. [...]
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 04, 2008 04:01AM
The first six footballers have been selected from over 1,200 who attended the first Regional Assessment Day for ROK’s Global Soccer Star (GSS) initiative, which is designed to unearth football talent in Africa, with the mobile phone as a key component in the process. Aspiring footballers text their request to register for the scheme to a dedicated shortcode. In return, they receive a free SMS message containing a link to a football skills training WAP site, and a unique PIN code [...]
Open Gardens |
Jul 04, 2008 03:01AM
Happy Fouth of July to our friends in America .. Image source: http://bluerulzz.blogspot.com/2007/07/happy-fourth-of-july-2007.html
MobHappy |
Jul 04, 2008 02:46AM
I’m off on holiday (vacation to our American friends) for a couple of weeks, so I’ll leave you in Carlo’s very capable hands. I look forward to more blogging on my return, but in the meantime I’ve got some serious chillin’ to do. Toodle pip. Russell
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 04, 2008 01:46AM
Celltick, which specializes in mobile idle screen marketing solutions, has announced an exclusive deal with Mobicom, Mongolia’s first mobile operator. Under the terms of the deal, Mobicom will employ Celltick’s LiveScreen Media platform to broadcast relevant content to its subscribers’ idle screens using cell broadcast technology.Mobicom’s subscribers will receive message teasers with an easy and intuitive clickthrough process, enabling them to access further information. The teasers will arrive on the handset’s idle screen, creating what Celltick calls “a simple and non-intrusive [...]
July 3 2008
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 03, 2008 10:16PM
A leading group of mobile operators has unveiled an initiative to create a blueprint and roadmap for opening up mobile functionality to encourage the development of exciting mobile applications without compromising customer security. The new initiative will be known as BONDI.Supported by OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform) members including 3 Group, AT&T, T-Mobile, Telenor, Telefónica, Telecom Italia and Vodafone, BONDI will provide a consistent and secure web services interface that can be used by all web developers across multiple device platforms. [...]
2d code |
Jul 03, 2008 10:00PM
Dario Motta from the Italian [Cod]mmunity, a new community to promote the knowledge of 2d codes, tells me that now the community blog is up and running a forum will be added soon. It will be interesting to see this grow over the next few years. Buona fortuna Dario! Post from: 2d code Italian SmartCode Community
A New Mobile Website Every Day |
Jul 03, 2008 06:01PM
Are you in the film or television industry? Would you like to be? If so, think outside the box and think about creating your profile on Casting.mobi. The mobile website (in beta) lets you create a profile, as well as search for a variety of creative and artistic jobs that suit your career path. Go get creative and stand out from the crowd! Mobile Website: Casting.mobi
Small Surfaces |
Jul 03, 2008 04:04PM
Putting People First has a translated section of a French report about mobile phone use by teens. ”...for adults the mobile is a hyper-personal device, an intimate black box with data that absolutely need to be protected. For teenagers on the other hand, the mobile is often as little confidential and intimate as their blogs. They are instead identity and exhibition spaces of oneself, with “museum galleries” of photos, ringtones, videos, and music to share with a community of peers: archiving [...]
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 03, 2008 04:04PM
Bytemobile, which provides mobile Internet solutions for network operators, has announced the appointment of Zbig Zdanowicz as Sales Director, Eastern Europe. Based in Dusseldorf, Germany, Zdanowicz will be responsible for all new customer sales and management of existing Bytemobile accounts throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with an emphasis on Russia and the Confederation of Independent States (CIS).Zdanowicz has 20 years of regional sales management experience in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia with technology companies including Citrix Systems, Electronics [...]
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 03, 2008 04:04PM
Picsel Technologies, a mobile platform provider delivering rich, intuitive visual experiences to any mobile device, is celebrating winning a double Queen's Award for Enterprise for its success in International Trade and Innovation. Picsel is only the second company to receive a Double Queen’s Award in the same year. The award was presented to Picsel CEO, Imran Khand, yesterday by The Duke of York at Picsel’s offices in Glasgow. The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious awards for business [...]
Mobile Marketing Magazine |
Jul 03, 2008 04:04PM
Dilithium Networks, which specializes in high-quality multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks, has announced the launch of ViVAS Flash to empower mobile operators to deliver two-way video calling services between web browsers and 3G mobile devices. With ViVAS Flash, says Dilithium, carriers can deploy value-added video services across converged networks to satisfy growing consumer demand for high quality communications experiences on any device over any network. The solution is available now. Dilithium notes that telcos all over the world have [...]
MobilOpen |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
Who says you have to share marketing space? Stand out from the crowd with a mobile campaign. by Mike Baker - VP and head of Nokia Ad Business An hour of television is sometimes taken up by 20 minutes of commercials; a page of the internet can often contain up to 16 ads; and almost every...
MobilOpen |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
The mobile world is abuzz with the news of Nokia's plans to open source Symbian. There's been a lot of great analysis of what this means for Nokia and its major competitors. If you aren't up to speed on what it means, I recommend Micheal Mace's in depth business analysis, Symbian changes...
google mobileblog |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
Posted by Jonathan Matus and Luca Zanolin, Google Maps for mobile voice search teamOn the Google Maps for mobile team we're always experimenting with new technologies, so we're happy to announce that we've started testing voice search as a new feature. Starting today, you can speak your business query instead of typing it on a select group of BlackBerry devices (Pearl 8110, 8120, and 8130, US only). Voice search in Google Maps uses the same speech recognition engine as GOOG-411, our [...]
google mobileblog |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
Posted by Adam Connors, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamWe've just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you're on the move, too! In your iPhone browser, just go to www.google.com/talk, sign in and start chatting. That's it. Google Talk runs entirely in the browser so there's no need to download or [...]
MobHappy |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
I’ve been spending a while playing with Nimbuzz, a service that aggregates IM and VoIP for your mobile (currently S60 and Java). I’m really impressed, particularly as there have been so many other aggregators with similar goals that have failed miserably. It pretty much does what you’d expect and hope: you enter in your details for your various IM accounts, and it pulls them all into the Nimbuzz app on your mobile, where you can text or voice chat from them. [...]
MobHappy |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
The overwhelming impression that you get when attending any mobile event is that everyone there is a bloke wearing either a grey suit or a blazer/chinos combo. In fact, at a recent event, I had to smile as I overheard someone arranging to meet someone they didn’t know when they said “I’m wearing a blue blazer, light blue shirt and chinos” as if this would help identify him in some way. But there are a whole bunch of talented non-blokes out [...]
MobHappy |
Jul 03, 2008 04:03PM
A judge in a US federal court in New York has ordered Google to hand over the entire YouTube logging database, revealing the viewing habits and history of YouTube users. While I’m optimistic that this order will get reversed — as it violates the Video Privacy Protection Act and completely tramples individuals’ privacy solely because Viacom is too lazy to follow DMCA takedown processes — it’s still appalling. Both because it’s a horrible decision by a federal judge, but also because [...]
