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Earth Day (22nd April) is a day devoted to creating awareness about pollution and other environmental concerns. This year, the organisers have surfed on the spectacular growth of Geocaching by launching a series of “Cache In, Trash Out” events. Geocaching is the location based “sport” that’s a combination of a treasure hunt and orienteering, assisted [...]

Hardly a day goes by without Google launching some new Beta service. Seems like Beta is the new word for Cool. My Search History is a bit spooky though, albeit I’ve accepted that privacy, if not dead, is certainly a very sick bunny indeed. It tracks your errr…search history, funnily enough. So if you’re in [...]

I’ve been following Israeli-based Celltick for 5 years now, but they seem to have hit the big time with a deal with Russia’s largest mobile operator, VimpelCom. Rumour has it that VimpelCom will be paying $30 million over 5 years for the Chameleon service. Celltick makes the technology that broadcasts live content to users’ phones [...]

It’s nice when something happens which one has been predicting for a while. Actually, it’s more of a relief that I’m kinda on track most of the time. Heineken, in the Netherlands, has launched a fantastic promotion in conjunction with OP3 (Dennis is an occasional Guest Blogger here) which allows participants to scan product bar [...]

If you work in mobile (and the chances are quite good you do, if you’re reading this) do you have any news that other readers might be interested in? Rumour, gossip and scandal are all fine, but I’m thinking more about your company and its products/services. Do you want to raise your profile with the [...]

We’ve seen number of art projects that link or tag physical world locations with digital information, such as Yellow Arrow, Mobile Scout and Grafedia. Now it seems that it’s tipping into the commercial world, with the launch of Blockies, as reported by Regine on the wonderful Near Near Future. Blockies is a service that allows [...]

First we have a MoMo in Munich and now a MoMeMo has been launched in New York and rapidly spreading. Mobile Media Mondays is a private membership, invitation-only group consisting of key decision makers and thinkers on mobile media initiatives. Founded by one of my old contacts, Ashley Heather, together with James Joyce, initial members [...]