If you’re headed to Barcelona in February for the 3GSM World Congress, check out the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards on Monday, February 12 at 3pm. It’s a free event, but places are limited, so sign up now. And even if you won’t be at the event, you’ll soon be able to nominate mobile applications [...]
Archive | December, 2006
Treo Flying The Flag For Mobile Data
I’m no huge fan of the Treo, for various reasons, but to push the company’s latest consumer-focused device, the Treo 680, Palm’s undertaken a fairly visible marketing campaign stressing all the things you can do with a Treo — and it’s not “keep track of your contacts” or anything so boring, the ads I’m seeing [...]
Revisiting My 2006 Predictions
Following Russell’s lead, I thought I’d review my predictions for 2006 that I made at the end of last year. Ditto to his comment about the confusing numbering, we each did 10 out of 20, in no real order, and click through the links for the original posts detailing some of my original shots. Predictions [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists – Best of the Year!
Sorry if you came here thinking you were actually going to read the Best Posts of the Year! There’s been a lot of confusion about this final issue of the Carnival, so I decided to delay it until the New Year and kick things off with a bang. That’ll enable me to clarify what it’s [...]
2006 Predictions
No, I’m not going to predict what’s going to happen this year with the benefit of hindsight. But about this time last year Carlo and I predicted what would happen in 2006, so I thought it would be amusing to review what we thought. Were we clever bunnies or the class dunces? Here’s what I [...]
Is It Really A Music Phone?
Another post about the small things: can mobile phones really be considered viable and attractive music players as long as they don’t easily accept standard headphones? I’ve found this issue personally annoying for a long time, since I find most standard earphones very uncomfortable, if they’ll even fit in my ears. But I think it’s [...]
Here’s Your Typical International Roaming Charge Complaint
When I was in Amsterdam a few weeks ago, I noted that the industry still manages to get hung up by small things, like shoddy SMS interconnects. Today, my T-Mobile bill arrived in the mail, bringing with it the inevitable feelings of regret that I actually bothered to use the phone while I was there. [...]
KLM Gets In On The Bluespamming Fun
Dutch airline KLM is launching an exciting trial of a new marketing program at its Amsterdam Schipol airport base, where it sends users fantastic messages telling them they should check in online, via Bluetooth to their mobile. Set up by a company called Lost Boys, it’s got the innovative name of… Bluecasting. “Travelers who are [...]
Bluetooth File Sharing IS Happening
One of the issues I’ve been banging about for the last three years is that kids are using Bluetooth to share music and ringtones. This has been met with widespread scepticism among ye of little faith. New research commissioned by our friends at New Media Age released today shows that the tsunami I was talking [...]
Kiva – Just Wow!
A very, very indirect link to mobile, but head on over to Kiva right now and check it out if you pride yourself on having any kind of human values. Microfinance has really exploded in the last few years, ever since the Grameen Bank pioneered the concept. Read more about Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus here, but [...]
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