iPhone: Not the only game in town

I love the Apple iPhone. It’s done more than most to get people browsing the internet on their phones. As the CEO of a business focusses on helping companies capitalize on the mobile internet, this is great news. Apple’s PR machine has worked with a mass media that has never been actively courted by phone [...]

AIME seminar on Mobile Advertising – Finding the sweet spot between advertising and social networking

There’s a sweet spot between mobile social networking and mobile advertising, with many people suggesting that not only will ads fund social networking on mobile, but it will be one of the key drivers of mobile advertising, due to the popularity of these sites, with their high engagement and repeat usage. Bango is sponsoring the [...]

What decides whether mobile handset manufacturers live or die?

The recent iPhone 3.0 software release announced this week has got me thinking. There has been so much talk recently about big shifts in consumer web browsing habits and developments in multi-touch based UI design attributed to the iPhone that I suspect we have been missing out on something equally important.  So important, it may [...]