One thing that pretty much everybody seems to agree on is that browsing the Web on mobile phones isn’t what it should be, The disagreement comes in on what to do about it. One the one hand, you’ve got people pointing to the content as the problem, offering up the .mobi domain as a zone [...]
Archive | July, 2005
Exclusive Deals Could Hold Back Mobile Music
British pop star Robbie Williams has signed an exclusive 18-month deal with T-Mobile where the operator will offer exclusive content, some of it embedded in handsets it sells. Williams is undoubtedly popular around the world — he’s sold 51 million albums — but are these kinds of exclusive deals what’s really going to make people [...]
Robbie Williams in Exclusive T-Mobile Deal
British pop star Robbie Williams has signed an exclusive 18-month deal with T-Mobile where the operator will offer exclusive content, some of it embedded in handsets it sells. Williams is undoubtedly popular around the world — he’s sold 51 million albums — but are these kinds of exclusive deals what’s really going to make people [...]
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Taxi Aggregator Launches
Crane Dragon appears to be a London, England based company founded by a bunch of bright, successful guys (no women on board – bad news) to create start-ups. A kind of next-gen tech uber-VC, that invests its own money in creating next-gen tech ventures. Very cool.
Except, I’m sorry to say, that its first concept is [...]
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More Post-London Scams
Following the ICE virus scam Russell wrote about, there are a couple more hoaxes making the rounds.
The first one says that even if their phone has no signal, people riding the Tube in London can reach emergency services if they dial 112. The hoax says that “ALL phone companies have signed up” for a service [...]
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Cable Companies With The Right Idea For Mobile Video?
My skepticism of mobile TV is no secret. I’m pretty bullish on mobile video, though, when it’s part of making personal media time-, place- and platform-independent. It’s been disappointing to see carrier and device manufacturer’s efforts thus far focus on broadcast-style content that’s either live TV or “made for mobile” fluff. But noise coming out [...]
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email v’s Instant messaging
From time to time, we see surveys that are interpreted as claiming that teens and kids are abandoning email in favour of Instant Messaging. The implication is that email might die out in due course.
The latest is new Pew Internet and American Life Project, which claims that "Email, once the cutting edge "killer app," [...]
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Linux, Mobile Phones and Clay Christensen
I wrote last week about the remarkable growth of the Linux operating system in SmartPhones and how it and Symbian are relegating Microsoft into a bit player in the mobile phone sector.
Regular readers of MobHappy know that I think the battle to dominate the phone platform is a crucial one for winners and losers alike. [...]
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Pirate P2P Users Spend More on Legal Downloads
A survey by UK based analyst, The Leading Question, has found that people who use pirate P2P sites, also spend 4.5 times more on legal downloads than other music fans. Typically, they spend ¨£5.52 ($9.16) a month as opposed to the average ¨£1.27 ($2.21).
Ahh, but …… says the quaintly named, British Phonographic Industry, pirates typically [...]
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Billboard Barcodes
We’ve written before about Shotcode and Semacode and other mobile codereaders, but over in Japan — where QR codes are commonplace, as shown by a recent announcement from Amazon — i-mode Business Strategy reports (via Tom Hume) that NTT DoCoMo is working on a cameraphone ad server that would let people snap a picture of [...]
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