Nokia – the one to watch?

Nokia, is one of the most impressive adaptive businesses of the last 100 years. Most recently, the company showed its resiliance in the 1980′s when its business was beginning to slow due to increased competition. The common strategy of the day would have been to cut costs to maintain profit levels. Instead Nokia, flew their product teams around [...]

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 [...]

Stormtroopers compare interplanetary web with Earth’s mobile web

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 [...]

Living with a super model – the HTC Touch HD

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. [...]

Will Smartphones come to dominate the mobile web?

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 [...]

PC world not keeping up with the mobile web

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 [...]

It’s just the Internet, stupid!

Just how different is the mobile web from the regular PC web?  As far as consumers are concerned, the mobile web is the PC web – just smaller.  When people are looking for services and content that match the immediacy and personal nature of mobile – up-to-date sports news, movie listings, dating sites to name [...]

What’s behind the surge in US mobile browsing?

The US will soon claim first place in the mobile web race with US consumers’ appetite for mobile web surfing expected shortly to overtake current global number one, the UK. That’s according to Bango’s mobile web surfing charts. So what’s behind this latest move? The UK has punched above it’s weight considering it only has [...]

So what did the folks with strange hair think of mobile?

ad:tech is the place where all the trendy leaders in the online advertising business go to discuss and display their latest technologies and services – where clicks and page views are discussed alongside web search and ad network aggregation. For someone more familiar with the mobile world of CTIA, it’s a show full of strange [...]

Of course the mobile web’s not dead!

I don’t know whether you have had as much fun as we have reading the various blogs responding to story that Russell Beattie Throws In The Towel On Mowser; And Doesn’t Believe In The Mobile Web Anymore (here in MocoNews).  Of course, the mobile web is not dead.   All you have to do is take a look [...]

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