Here’s a few interesting links from this week that you might have missed. They’re stuff I might have blogged about given unlimited time. Om Malik shows why you shouldn’t mess with a blogger or a journalist. Get off the fence, Om, and tell us what you really think of Dell. Forbes looks at why the [...]
Archive | June, 2005
SMS.ac Interview
SMS.ac are nothing if not controversial. They claim to be the world’s largest mobile community (growing at 750,000 people a month!) and yet, they’re regularly accused of spamming on a massive scale. There have been wild tales of “brainwashing” employees to work for no money, with promises of wealth-accumulating options. And at the same time, [...]
Follow up to Mobile Payments
I posted yesterday in one of my occasional “Advice to Operators pieces” that they should all introduce a system to allow P2P transfers of prepay phone credits. These pieces are deliberately presented from the “in a perfect world” point of view and don’t take account of many of the complexities of running a mobile operator [...]
Advice to Operators #5 – P2P Credits
Anyone who’s ever used a prepay phone (which probably excludes most people who work for an operator, funnily enough) knows what a real pain it is when you run out of credits. Just as your battery runs out in the middle of a critical call, your credits fail you just when you really need a [...]
Attack of the Mobile Viruses
One of my predictions for this year was that there would be a lot of scaremongering headlines about mobile viruses. But, on closer examination, they’d prove to be non-stories promoted by companies selling anti-virus software and faithfully reprinted by uncritical journalists, like this and this. To clarify this position, I’ve never suggested that they will [...]
Alatto Better Navigation
Speaking of being overwhelmed, I really meant to blog about Alatto a few months ago. Nothing to do with the fact that their corporate blog (this is a good initiative, guys) claimed that my blog was the best on mobile But prompted by a really excellent analysis of mobile phone navigation and usability at The [...]
Overwhelmed and Del.icou.us
One of the things that stops non-bloggers from blogging is the old “what will I blog about?” chestnut. They’re concerned that they’ll start with a bang and end, a few days later, with a whimper. While many blogs do end ignomiosuly within days, I can’t help feeling it’s down to motivation rather than not knowing [...]
3G Chavarazzi
3, the UK 3G network owned by Hutchison, has driven its bid for market share, with aggressive, price-led marketing – once they abandoned their initial, doomed video calling strategy. This has led to a customer base dominated by Chavs. Chavs is the slang term for mainly urban youth, with a penchant for designer clothes and [...]
At Last – A Useful Child Tracking Application
I’ve been highly critical of child tracking applications in the past. While they sound a great idea at first, you soon realise that most don’t do what they claim – ie keep kids safe. The applications can’t track abducted kids as most people know that the phone can be tracked and the kidnapper just dumps [...]
Top 10 Mobile Games Publishers
Mobile Games Analyst, part of Informa, have just published a list of the top 10 mobile games publishers in Europe: 1 Gameloft 165 2 InfoSpace 125 3 Sumea 121 4 In-Fusio 117 5 Digital Bridges (I-play) 111 6 THQW 108 7 Sorrent 96 8 Living Mobile 92 9 Jamdat 89 10 iFone 88 The weighting [...]
Recent Comments