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Archive | March, 2006
Mobile Advertising Starts to Take Off
One of my predictions for 2006 was that we’d start to see a real thaw in the mobile marketing winter. Finally, more and more brands would begin to use the marketing channel after the chill of the last 5 years. Three months on and I still think this is the year, as there’s both a [...]
Links for March 30
- EU bans roaming charges: what impact in world of dual phone subscriptions (Communities Dominate Brands) – Cyworld to Annex the U.S. (Red Herring) – Dial Denmark for saturation (AFP) – Nokia raises 2006 cellphone market forecast (Reuters) – Flickr off (Chris Heathcote) – AllTunes.mobile – music download service (All About Symbian) – 3G reality [...]
MobHappy Podcast
Just wanted to bounce an idea off you. I’ve recently been doing a lot of listening to PodCasts, what with more travelling and the snow here finally melting, allowing a little jogging again. However, if you want to listen to tech or business ones, there’s very little choice outside maybe 5 or so I’ve found, [...]
Premium SMS Fundraising and Operator Revenue Share
During SXSW, I ran into Scott Dudelson, who’s putting on premium SMS-based fundraiser for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Justin over at MoPocket has a thorough rundown on Scott and the project, so check that out for more info on what he’s doing, but the basic idea is that people text “HEAL” to the shortcode [...]
Links for March 29
- Handsets get taken to the grave (BBC) – Motorola RAZR Still Dominating US Handset Sales (cellular-news) – Motorola RAZR Doubles Market Share to Acquire Lead in Europe (Telephia) – NTT DoCoMo preps army-style music phone (Reg Hardware) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Okay, On 3, Everybody Make Up Something About the iPhone
The Apple iPhone rumor is played out. Unless you’ve got something real to show us, shut up about it. We’ve hit the point where even year-old rumors are getting recycled, and “analysts” are piling on with their own predictions in an attempt to look with it. The latest comes from one saying the iPhone “Launch [...]
Mobile Development Made Simple(r) With Opera Mini
Opera’s been on a little tear recently, announcing licensing deals with a number of carriers, and yesterday, with three mobile content companies (via MocoNews that will distribute it in various places around the world. Also included in yesterday’s announcement was price-comparison service PriceRunner, with the comment “The US-based Price Runner will actively promote and distribute [...]
Are we too Curmudgeonly?
Fellow blogger and Big Cheese in mobile at Yahoo!, Russell Beattie, has written us an open letter on his much visited site saying we should lighten up here at MobHappy: Hey! What’s the deal with you guys lately!?!? I expect constant cynicism and skepticism from TechDirt Wireless, but MobHappy? I mean the name of your [...]
Stefan Eriksson Loses Another Luxury Car
Stefan Eriksson just can’t catch a break. The beleaguered Ex-Gizmondo boss has run into another spot of bother, as Beverly Hills police Sunday confiscated his Mercedes SLR. Officers pulled the car, driven by Eriksson’s wife, over Sunday after its European license plates caught their eye. They then found that Eriksson’s wife didn’t have a drivers’ [...]
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