9. Mobile TV and P2P video struggle again in 2006
10. Happy Slapping – more attacks and export potential
Unfortunately, Happy Slapping has really gone mainstream in the UK now, with more and more attacks reported. Just in the course of the last month, we had our first celebrity Happy Slap on c-list, Myleene Klass as well [...]
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2006 Predictions 9 and 10
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2006 Predictions 7 and 8
7. MVNOs will gain in popularity, with new services announced and launching regularly. But the thinning of the herd will also begin, with at least one high-profile casualty before the end of the year.
8. RIM will take it on the chin, even if it comes out of its patent suit okay. Push e-mail will become [...]
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2006 Predictions 5 and 6
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5. Ringtones implosion accelerates, as one of the shortest boom and bust cycles becomes clear to all.
6. Gizmondo withdraws from handheld gaming sector.
Gizmondo must be one of the big failures of 2005 and I’m really, really (no, really!) puzzled as to what the hell’s [...]
2006 Predictions 3 and 4
3. 3G won’t kill Wi-Fi, WiMAX won’t kill 3G. There will be no killing of rival radio technologies.
4. Operators will still struggle to find the key selling points of 3G.
Mobile operators are still struggling to figure out what to say when customers ask why they should switch to 3G. Video calling failed miserably as a [...]
2006 Prediction 1 and 2
Welcome to MobHappy’s 2006 Predictions!
While Carlo and I are away, chilling out, we’ve written these for your entertainment. While they’re a bit of fun on one level, we also take them quite seriously and if previous years are a guideline, we’re not bad at them. If we score a point of every right one, 2005 [...]
Links for December 23
- The Mobility Echo Chamber (Mobile Enterprise Weblog)
- Medion, Aldi Mobile Discount Offer Exceeds Expectations (cellular-news)
- The best and worst of 2005 (Abiro – Mobile News)
- 2005: The Predictions That Were And Weren’t (MocoNews)
- UK mobile operators take fight for 3G tax rebate to Europe (The Times)
- Communications for Life (m-trends.org)
- Here It Comes [...]
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Carnival of the Mobilists – Best of the Year!
Welcome to the final Carnival of the Mobilists of 2005, where we feature the very best online writing about mobile. To celebrate this special issue, we asked all our writers to send in their favourite piece from 2005 ÇƒÏ and they havenǃÙt disappointed. I challenge anyone to come up with a finer collection.
We also have [...]
2005 Predictions Reviewed 15 – 19
And so, we come to the final few predictions I made, with my score running at 13 out of a maximum 14 points to date. How did I dio in the final stretch?
15. Adult services continue to quietly boom
Yes, this is continuing to boom as far as all the data I’ve seen, which I have [...]
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Links for December 22
- In praise of … texting (The Guardian)
- 3G Users Say WTF! (160 Characters)
- Italy’s Mediaset buys spectrum for mobile TV (Forbes)
- DoCoMo buys stake in Japanese TV broadcaster (Telecom Magazine)
- KDDI, Qualcomm team up for mobile TV (Reuters)
- Gorillaz to deliver their Christmas speech to mobiles (BBC)
- Verizon to enter overpriced music download market [...]
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The Worst In Mobile, 2005
It’s roundup and prediction season, when everybody looks back on the past year and looks ahead to the new one. We’re no different of course, with Russell reviewing his predictions from last year, and our new ones to come very soon. I’m going to take a slightly different tack the next couple days, looking at [...]
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