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Archive | May, 2005
3 Launch Ad Channel
3G operator, 3, have teamed up with Flytxt, veteran UK mobile marketing agency to launch an advertising channel on the network. The first ad for download is a trailer for “It’s all gone Pete Tong”, a new “cult” movie and a Toronto film festival award-winner. The first 100,000 downloads will be free, paid for by [...]
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Weather by RSS
If you use BlogLines as your RSS reader, you can get weather reports now too. Pretty cool – like the weather here today If you don’t use an RSS reader, you’re making your life more complicated than it needs to be. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Sony Ericsson’s Shame Academy
Over at W2Forum Martina (the AdverBlogs one) posted the story (membership required) about The Shame Academy, Sony Ericsson’s new promotion. Sony Ericsson is promoting its K300i with the “snap, send and shame” idea, an invitation to students to send embarrassing photos of themselves and their friends taken on their phones. Young mobile users will then [...]
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Tomi Ahonen and Alan Moore’s “Communities Dominate Brands” Book Review
Following my interview with Tomi Ahonen a few weeks ago, I’ve been reading the new book “Communities Dominate Brands”, he co-wrote with Alan Moore. If you’ve only got time for a top line opinion, here it is; very good, you should read it. You can get 10% off here by using the promotional code mobile-weblog. [...]
Carriers Love iTunes Phone, says Moto CEO
Motorola CEO Ed Zander told reporters there was “no resistance” from carriers to the company’s iTunes phone, contradicting (eminently believable) earlier reports that carriers were balking at selling the devices since it cut them out of the revenue loop. “I don’t know where these rumors got started,” Zander is quoted as saying in the Chicago [...]
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Mobile Couponing
The archives of The Mobile Technology Weblog (ie here) contain 766 posts on various mobile subjects. So if you’re looking for something mobile related, I suggest you search the archives. If that fails, feel free to drop me a line and I’ll do my best to help. However, let’s face it, no one’s going to [...]
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3G and Downloading Content – Advice to Operators #3
Steve Jones of the excellent 3G Portal sent me a very interesting article – “Don’t we have the best of 3G already?”. He developed the argument in 2002 (ie before 3G launches) that if people were already quite happy downloading mobile content via their PC’s and synching/transferring to their phones, why would they download the [...]
I-Play Can’t
I noted a few weeks ago that veteran mobile games maker Digital Bridges had changed its name to I-Play. I also wrote that I was baffled by the senior VP of publishing and marketing, saying: “But all of them [mobile games makers] have technology oriented heritage and company names. We felt it was time to [...]
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People Want TV on Mobiles, But Won’t Pay
Only a month after ABI Research was telling operators “Whoop di doop, Mobile TV will be BIG, guys. I mean seriously massive. You really must buy our report to understand how clever and rich you’re going to be!!”, Jupiter Research have come to pretty much the opposite conclusion. When I wrote about ABI’s conclusion (“The [...]
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