Techdirt and Textually and several other sites have posted this story, but I wanted to weigh in as well. A 16-year-old boy in South Korea killed himself after running up a $3800 bill for mobile data services. Then, in response, the country’s top two mobile carriers, SKT and KTF, said they’d begin offering flat-rate data [...]
Archive | February, 2006
You Didn’t Think The Gizmondo Story Was Finished, Did You?
True to form, more details are emerging on the spectacular Ferrari crash last week involving former Gizmondo CEO Stefan Eriksson. Police now say the Ferrari was traveling in excess of 160 miles and hour when it crashed, but they’ve also released several more juicy details that — of course — don’t paint the best picture [...]
Ping Rewards Launch Mobile Coupons
I just came across the new Ping Rewards, which sends sms coupons from advertisers to its opted in database of mobile owners in the US.
Regular readers of MobHappy will know that I used to be Sales & Marketing Director of just such an outfit five long years ago – ZagMe. While we hard a fair [...]
I’m on the Train!
Whenever we have the misfortune to eavesdrop on a mobile phone conversation, it always seems to begin with a mundanity like “I’m on the train”. What the mobile user is actually doing is stating their location to the caller, as it contextualises the call for both of them and could well be an important framework [...]
Links for February 27
- Thinking outside the box (The Guardian)
- Vodafone reaches turning point, but unsure of direction (FT)
- Vodafone To Write Off Up To $49 Billion In Goodwill (cellular-news)
- Qualcomm developing chips for rival TV technologyM (Reuters)
- Geovector — point your phone at the cafe, and flirt with the barista (SiliconBeat)
- Mobile tracking devices on trial (BBC)
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Operators Don’t Sell Internet Access
US operators are squashing Sling Media’s plans to let people watch their own content on their mobile devices, presumably because if people could buy a Slingbox and watch the stuff they wanted, they’d no longer (or never start to) buy the overpriced, crappy video content operators are trying to sell.
This is so typical. Take a [...]
Analyst Predictions, Or Just Making Stuff Up
Some analyst firm says there will be 10 million 3g subscribers in China this year, representing 2.2 percent of a subs there. There’s nothing outstanding there, apart from the simple fact that the Chinese government still has given no indication when it will award 3G licenses, and when carriers there will begin selling 3G services. [...]
Now Is The Time
If you’re a big brand looking to get in to mobile content, the time is now. The opportunity really hasn’t changed much over the last year or two (even with the advent of 3G), but perceptions have. Just look at CBS and News Corp., which today announced some mobile-content initiatives. CBS, on the one hand, [...]
BzzAgent’s Blogging Idea
Back in January, I wrote about the controversial company, BzzAgent and how they’d managed to raise $13.75 million in VC funding.
One of my points that was that while word of mouth marketing was undoubtedly very, very powerful, paying people to spread the word defeated the whole point and undermined the credibility of the people passing [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists at gotomobile
Gotomobile has Carnival of the Mobilists 16, full of impressions from 3GSM and plenty of other good stuff. Be sure to check it out.
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