Posted on 27 / 07 / 10 by Vanessa Daly
Well, do your mobile analytics homework and you’ll find out… At a time when smartphones and tablets are in almost every person’s hands – or in the case of tablets, laps – New York hosted two insightful conferences on mobile last week, which had one common theme – ‘Leveraging the mobile opportunity’. The main focus [...]
Filed under: Apps, Cool mobile stuff, Mobile apps, Mobile web, mobile marketing, smartphones | Tagged: SmartPhone, Mobile web, mobile marketing, Mobile analytics, google, bango, apps, Mobile apps, IAB, paidContent | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 22 / 02 / 10 by Anil Malhotra
Were you at Mobile World Congress this year? With this year’s show now done and dusted, here are some of the key highlights of the show…enjoy! Eyebrow raised: Vittorio Colao had a moan about Google’s search dominance. Vodafone, of course, entered into the first ever global carrier deal with Google three years ago, giving [...]
Filed under: Mobile World Congress, app store, smartphones | Tagged: app store, Apple, bango, iPhone, Mobile World Congress, Nokia, SmartPhone, Vodafone, wifi | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 30 / 07 / 09 by Andy Bovingdon
Recent reports clearly show a rapid increase in mobile phones browsing using Wi-Fi – according to recent Bango research over 20% of your customers are now connecting via Wi-Fi (see Bango Wi-Fi stats). Millennial Media also reported 22% Wi-Fi use in the USA as part of their June U.S Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and [...]
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Posted on 2 / 07 / 09 by rayand
A senior Nokia executive at a recent Mobile 2.0 conference told me that some of their biggest mobile operator customers were concerned that the newest Nokia phones (N97, 5800) will switch automatically to WiFi if they detect a network. Some operators like the idea of users on “all you can eat” mobile web tariffs using [...]
Filed under: Mobile payment, Mobile web, Trends | Tagged: iPhone, mobile billing, mobile content, mobile internet, Nokia, SmartPhone, user-experience | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 11 / 05 / 09 by rayand
The Apple App Store seems to be on the same track as the Crazy Frog. Although Apple is very secretive, the App Store may be managing to achieve similar sales growth over its first year or so. While Apple’s sales are a tiny part of the overall multi-billion dollar mobile app and content market, since it is restricted to 20 million or so iPhones/iTouches it has captured the imagination of journalists and the technorati. It has re-invigorated interest in app stores among other phone makers and even breathed some life into operator portals.
Filed under: Business, Mobile games, Mobile music, Mobile payment, Mobile web, Off portal, Trends, app store | Tagged: app store, bango, crazy frog, fart, iPhone, mobile phone, Nokia, ringtone, sales, SmartPhone | Leave a Comment »
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 / 07 / 08 by Andy Bovingdon
The latest shiny new iPhone with its super fast 3G web browsing is here and selling out fast – but that may in part be due to low initial stocks in the stores as well as consumer demand. The launch was not smooth with problems in the USA with AT&T activation server crashes and with [...]
Filed under: Cool mobile stuff, Mobile analytics, Mobile web | Tagged: Apple, iPhone, iPhone 3G, SmartPhone, Touch phone | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 16 / 04 / 08 by Sarah Keefe
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 [...]
Filed under: Business, Mobile web | Tagged: iPhone, Mobile web, Mowser, SmartPhone | 1 Comment »
