I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but I think it’s fresh and interesting enough to do it now. Mad 4 Mobile Phones, put together this list¬†of the top 50 – although it’s now grown to 64 – mobile related websites. Great job, Patrick! Now before we look at the list, it is [...]
Archive | August, 2006
Mobile Phones: Empowering Stupid Criminals Everywhere, Part IX
For the latest in this recurring series, we visit Practicalist, which has a tale of a stolen phone that kept uploading its cameraphone shots via ShoZu to Flickr. This isn’t quite as juicy as previous similar stories since the alleged thieves haven’t been caught, but it’s pretty entertaining nonetheless. Certainly worth a chuckle is ShoZu [...]
Ryanair Scoops the World with Mobile Calls
Cheeky Irish upstart Ryanair (actually corporate behemoth)¬†is the first airline in¬†Europe¬†to allow passengers mobile and Crackberry access on its flights. The deal, via OnAir, will enable mobile devices from next Summer¬†to be used via the airline’s own network at rates that mirror the pillaging roaming charges set by operators ie very expensive and you’ll only [...]
Universal’s Free, Ad-Supported Music Downloads Have Quite The Hill To Climb
Universal Music has announced it will work with a startup called SpiralFrog to make its catalog available for free, via an ad-supported service. This is the kind of radical change the recording industry’s business model needs, so kudos to Universal for being the first to try something different. That said, I’m pretty skeptical of this [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists # 42
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists¬†is up at Mobile Active, an interesting site in its own right, specialising in the mobile’s role in civic action and engagement. A great selection of posts, as usual, so check it out while you remember. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Wireless Industry Partnership Launches
Caroline Lewko (perhaps better known to MobHappy readers as the tireless organiser of our West Coast Mobilist Gatherings) has just launched the Wireless Industry Partnership, which promises to be a great addition to the mobile networking world. Plus, MobHappy readers can get $100 of the first year of membership, so it’ll only cost you $200. [...]
Follow Ups
Back in July, I wrote a post that was widely commented on and struck an industry nerve about the high wastage that WAP Push was generating for some companies. Tom Hume, has an excellent follow up on this and shares some great advice. I also wrote earlier this week about Friendster needing to go mobile [...]
Pocket Portal Review
If you’re not from around these parts, you’ll have missed that the mobile web is beginning to hit its stride and blossom into a really useful tool and one that’s now widely used by a significant proportion of the population. In fact, in certain markets, the mobile web is very big indeed already (India and [...]
Free Mobilists’ Mobile RSS Reader
At MobHappy, we teamed with with the the guys behind Free News a while back to offer a mobile phone RSS reader. This allows you to follow our favourite blogs from your mobile. So we thought we’d extend this popular service to include all our Mobilist friends too and offer a Mobilist Mobile RSS reader, [...]
What’s .mobi Playing At Now?
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of .mobi. I haven’t had much to add since I posted on it back in May, so I’ve avoided writing about it here. But the mobile-specific domain’s administrators have done a couple things recently I want to draw attention to. Last week, over at Techdirt, I posted [...]
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