Posted on 24 / 11 / 08 by Vanessa Daly
Single Click is the most talked-about new feature of the Payforit scheme since it first launched. This feature offers a number of important benefits for content providers, helping them get more repeat visits and improving their conversion rates. Mobile users are offered a very similar approach as shopping online at sites such as Amazon and iTunes. As a result they enjoy a faster [...]
Filed under: Mobile web, Payforit | Tagged: mobile content, Mobile payment, Payforit, PC websites | 1 Comment »
Posted on 21 / 11 / 08 by Sarah Keefe
Imperial Stormtroopers, on a quick break from protecting the Galactic Empire, have a quick demo of Earth’s mobile web so they can see how different it is from their own virtual world. Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Harris, SVP of Sales at Bango, shows them the live feed of mobile web traffic from www.bango.com/live. So, the question [...]
Filed under: Mobile web | Tagged: bango, galactic empire, interplanetary web, jedi master, Mobile web, obi-wan harris, star wars, stormtroopers, tatooine | 2 Comments »
Posted on 18 / 11 / 08 by Andy Bovingdon
The first 5 days with a HTC Touch HD I had my first Windows Mobile phone when I worked at Microsoft – an original Orange SPV that I hated because of its poor UI and short battery life. But here I find myself with another Windows Mobile handset, this time the new HTC Touch HD. [...]
Filed under: Business, Cool mobile stuff, Mobile web | Tagged: HTC Touch, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile web, SmartPhone, UI | 1 Comment »
Posted on 14 / 11 / 08 by Sarah Keefe
It’s interesting to see a recent consumer study of US mobile phone users which shows that 18.9% of mobile consumers now use a smartphone. However, this research, conducted by The Kelsey Group with research partner ConStat and reported in Mobile Marketer, is at odds with Gartner research which reveals that in Q2 2008, 10.5% of all phones sold worldwide was a [...]
Filed under: Mobile web | Tagged: Gartner, iPhone, Kelsey Group, Mobile web, smartphones, top mobile handsets | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 3 / 11 / 08 by Sarah Keefe
When Bango surveyed the Top 20 most trafficked PC websites (according to Nielsen Online), we found that half of the sites did not work well on leading mobile phones. Tests were carried out on the Motorola V3 Razr and Nokia 6300 on the AT&T network in the US and Vodafone in the UK. The full [...]
Filed under: Mobile web | Tagged: Apple, AT&T, bango, Microsoft, mobile experience, Mobile web, mobile-friendly, MSN, Nielsen Online, PC websites, Vodafone, Wikipedia, Yahoo | 10 Comments »