40% of US mobile subscribers do not know whether their operator offers 3G – ZDNet: Nearly 40% of US respondents couldn’t correctly identify whether or not their mobile carrier offered 3G service, In-Stat says. It’s a bit more surprising that more than 60% could — after all, why should Joe Public need to know what [...]
Archive | November, 2006
Carnival 52 at All About Symbian
Head on over to All About Symbian, where Rafe’s done a great job putting together the 52nd edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, this week’s collection of the best writing on the web about mobile. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Free Calls for Ads with Blyk
There were¬†two big business news stories¬†this week¬†and they’re quite obviously related. Firstly,¬†Google’s UK ad revenue has exceeded the UK’s Channel Four (the second largest commercial TV station) and are poised to overtake the largest channel, ITN, within the foreseeable future. To put some figures on that, Channel Four is ¬£800m ($1.5 billion), Google ¬£900m¬†($1.7 billion) [...]
Google Drops Gmail Mobile App
Google has announced a Java-based Gmail application, adding to the mobile web version of Gmail that’s been around for a while. At first glance, it seems pretty decent — it’s very simple and straightforward, and works pretty much like you’d expect, with zero configuration. I’ve installed it on a Nokia E61, and I’m hard pressed [...]
The Chronic Stupidity Of Telcos
Hard as it may be to believe, it gets tiresome pointing out the myriad flaws of telcos and mobile operators sometimes. There are so many, and their approach to fixing them is like squeezing a balloon: push things down in one area, and they pop up in another. So, after a while, you start to [...]
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