There’s the old saying about lies, damn lies and statistics — it could pretty easily be adapted to fit plenty of analyst predictions as well. I saw one fly past my RSS reader today that says location-based services “may finally realize its potential in the Asia/Pacific region in the upcoming five years” (via Mobile Analyst [...]
Archive | December, 2005
Dial That Number
On a recent visit to an √?ber trendy friend, my 10 year old daughter wanted to use their phone. The problem was that she couldn’t work out how to do it. This is a kid who uses tech stuff everyday. She can use a PSP, GameBoy, PlayStation, computer, mobile phone, video camera, digital camera and [...]
The Carnival is Up
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at C Enrique Ortiz, who has done a great job editing. As ever, well worth checking out. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Narnia is an Allegory – Shock
I took my kids to see The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe recently and was intrigued by the way the film worked on two levels. My kids obviously saw it on a basic level ÇƒÏ a simple saga of right versus wrong, with an overt Christian subtext. For adults though the message is very [...]
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Our Apologies For The Interruption
Sorry there haven’t been any updates today and the last week of posts has gone missing — we’ve been caught in the massive Typepad outage that’s been going for some 18 hours or so. We’ve been let down tremendously by the Typepad service and Six Apart’s response, and their updates don’t give us much confidence [...]
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Links for December 15
- DoCoMo Buys 10% Stake In Korea’s KTF For $560 million (cellular-news) – Siemens boss predicts US switch from CDMA to GSM (news.com) – T-Mobile UK evaluation delay prompts sale rumors (Telegeography) – MTV Invests $50 million in Amp’d (MocoNews) – Vodafone releases Nokia 6680 in Japan will they never learn? (3G) – Cingular shuts [...]
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Kids “Two Clicks” From Buying Mobile Porn
All the horror stories and questionable studies being pumped out by companies looking to create a problem that only their products can solve — like all the mobile virus FUD), for instance — are getting pretty tiresome. The latest one is about how easy it is for kids to get mobile porn, put out by [...]
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Smart Marketers Go Black
eMarketer points to some work by Solutions Research Group (SRG) suggesting that in the US, Black and to a lesser extent, Hispanic mobile users are far more likely to use advanced (ie non voice) features of their phones. 37% had downloaded a ringtone in the last month (as opposed to 26% average), 48% had sent [...]
Google To Finally Make Its Big Mobile Move?
Rumors are trickling through the blogosphere that Google is going to buy Opera. It’s been rumored for some time that Google was working on its own Web browser, thought to be based on open-source software like Mozilla, reflecting its apparent preference to build its own software when possible rather than buying it. But to see [...]
Links for December 14
- China To Add 100 Million New Telephone Users In 2005 – Government (cellular-news) – Cingular to test near-field cellphone services in Atlanta (Engadget) – Sega/DoCoMo phone that recognizes objects (Picturephoning) – Vodafone drops Ferrari F1 sponsorship for McLaren (Reuters) – Ericsson signs another billion-dollar outsourcing deal (DMEurope) – Samsung launched 164 different phones in [...]
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