(Updated with an apology and explanation from Bluepulse noted in the comments.) From time to time, I get asked by people at various companies “about blogs and stuff”, in particular how companies can best deal with blogs from a PR and marketing perspective. Two things I stress are sincerity and honesty. Companies need to be [...]
Archive | January, 2006
Links For January 26
- Verizon 4Q profit falls, meets estimates, company interested in buying our Vodafone stake (AP) – Yahoo vs Google (MyPhoneRocks dot com) – I loved my 3G phone, until I saw the bill (Guardian) – Mobile phone boom set to continue in 2006: survey (Reuters) – Siemens under pressure to pull back telecoms business (Bloomberg) [...]
Coping With The Changing Handset Market
The mobile phone market is still booming, with Strategy Analystics saying a record 810 million handsets were shipped in 2005 — projecting 930 million this year and 1 billion in 2007. Emerging markets accounted for half of total sales, underlining their importance in the modern market. This growth comes at a cost, though — the [...]
3 Launches WePay
UK’s 3G network operator, 3, is interesting to follow as, to their credit, they keep trying new things. Sure, some may not work (like denying net access to subscribers) but some will and that’s where their growth will come from. WePay, launched today, is another innovation and I find myself rather intrigued. It rewards Pay [...]
Thanks, Bill. In Praise of the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Just before Christmas, I developed really bad pains in my left wrist. After a few days I self-diagnosed these as being some kind of Repetitive Strain Injury from typing too much and more importantly, in a poor position. It got so bad that it was agony to type and I had to take a few [...]
Exclusive Interview with Julia Dimambro of Cherrysauce Part 2
We continue yesterday’s interview with the Diva of Mobile Erotica, Julia Dimambro of Cherrysauce. Some estimates claim that already 40% of mobile content (excluding ringtones) are adult in nature, so it’s an important market to understand, even if we don’t plan on joining in ourselves. Russell: Are there any particular services that you think are [...]
Links For January 25
- Vodafone’s Sarin Throws Verizon A Bone (Om Malik) – White House releases GPS upgrades (RCR) – US judge sets February 24 RIM injunction hearing (Reuters) – Qualcomm posts higher quarterly profit (Reuters) – Users’ Desire To Personalize Smartphones To Drive Sales (Mobile Pipeline) – Sponsors, Ads May Drive Down Mobile TV Costs (Wireless Week) [...]
Nobody’s Making Money From Mobile Music
“Mobile Music A Revenueless Land Grab”, says MocoNews. Somehow, I don’t find that hard to believe. They point to an FT article out of MIDEM, the big digital music confab in Cannes this week, with execs not wanting to talk about how little they’re making from mobile music — and they’re all simply saying that [...]
Exclusive Interview with Julia Dimambro of Cherrysauce Part 1
Julia Dimambro and her company Cherrysauce is one of the pioneers of Adult Entertainment (aka porn) in the mobile space, so it’s great that she found time to give us an exclusive interview here at MobHappy, which will run today and tomorrow. Adult services have proved incredibly important on the “old” internet, both in generating [...]
Links for January 24
- Europe sees first W-CDMA 900MHz calls (vnunet.com) – Cingular Profit Up on Subscriber Growth (AP) – Verizon Wireless adds 2 mln customers in Q4 (Reuters) – Japan’s KDDI profits rise on growing mobile business (AFP) – SK profits jump 25% (FT.com) – Vodafone Customer Growth Rises to 4.9% on New Assets (Bloomberg) – Germans [...]
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