Ever wanted to run your own Music Festival? – well now you can with Lynx. You’ve got a budget, you choose the food, drink, staff and DJ’s and open the gates. Will you throw a great party or go bust? Pretty cool! By the way, I have no connection with this campaign, whatsoever – just [...]
Archive | September, 2004
Mobile and MP3 – with Lyrics!
Sometimes I’m genuinely flummoxed in a “wow, I’m really living in the future kind of way. Picture Phoning has a piece about new model mobiles in Korea. One of them has “mobile caption service which displays lyrics of the song played on MP3 phones in real time.” How cool is that? And something for the [...]
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Vodafone’s 3G
So, the mighty Vodafone has announced a launch date for 3G in the UK, according to Tech Digest. November 1st is the day – in time for the Christmas rush. If I was a rival operator, I think I’d be getting pissed off at always watching Vodafone romp home first. They’re being cagey with the [...]
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Mobile Content Rant
I picked up this inspired little rant by Martin Tobias on Paid Content, on Tom Hume’s Blog. Martin’s a VC and successful entrepreneur and obviously “gets” the mobile thing too. I told you there were some good VC’s I have a real problem with the current myopic fascination that mobile content companies have of trying [...]
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How can I help You?
This blog is beginning to attract a significant number of readers now – which I’m really pleased with. I hope you like what I’m writing. If you’re in the mobile business (or thinking about going into it) please feel free to ask for help or my opinion or anything you want really – publically or [...]
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Bad Breath Phone
According to Reuters, Siemens are launching a phone that can detect and alert you when you have bad breath or “if [you] are giving off offensive smells”. Personally, I think that the announcement is timed to coincide with the start of Oktoberfest (or Wiesn, as we lederhosen wearing locals call it) is no accident. For [...]
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MMS is (still) Dying
After my blog on Mobitopia and expanded here as more evidence came to light, the legendary wireless writer, Eric Lin, wrote one on The Feature. Check it out. Eric comes to very similar conclusions to me, albeit from slightly different angles, even linking up my article and the other two as I had. Thereby proving, [...]
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Stelios – One Trick Pony?
Is it me, or does it seem that good ole millionaire next door Stelios launches a new venture every month, which then seem to disappear without trace? We covered his Virtual Mobile Network Operator launch in June. But I can remember (off the top of my head) hotels, cinemas, Internet cafe’s (still going I think, [...]
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Unsolicited SMS is Bad
Brand Republic reports via Textually on a blindingly obvious piece of research by Cable & Wireless. “Among the key findings were that unsolicited text messages were more than twice as likely to irritate their recipients than outbound telemarketing if received outside of working hours.” I suppose it needs to be said if some marketers don’t [...]
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Mobile dating in Japan
Ketai Log is “an occasional Web diary by a group of Tokyo college students who are researching the changing role of cell phones — keitai — in Japanese society”. This extract is by Hiroki “Azzie” Azuma on go-kon, or matchmaking parties. In a go-kon, which typically takes place in a bar or similar spot, a [...]
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