GigaOM has an interesting post revealing the names of some companies from a recent startup conference that are looking for money. An interesting mix, weighed towards, it seems, companies looking to present web or informational content on mobile devices, whether through RSS or other platforms. There’s a little bit of technology in there, but mostly [...]
Archive | April, 2007
Calling All US UIQ Developers
The fine folks at UIQ dropped me a note to share some details about their upcoming Fast Track events for developers over here in the US. They’re taking place May 10-11 in Boston, and May 14-15 in San Francisco, and are designed to provide developers and biz dev types with technical and commercial information [...]
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Mobile Content v Web Content
Although the lines between the two webs are blurring, there still are two webs for most intents and purposes. So when I caught up with Patrick Parodi at MIP TV last week, I was interested in a stat he threw out in his role as Chairman of the MEF, as opposed to his day job, [...]
Wading Into The N95 Crippling Furor
There’s a bit of an uproar going around about how Vodafone and Orange in the UK are “crippling” Nokia N95s they sell by removing the internet telephony plumbing that allows the use of integrated third-party VoIP services over the device’s Wi-Fi connection. Users can still make VoIP calls through services that have a separate client, [...]
Carnival 70 Up at Mobile Opportunity
Michael Mace has the bumper 70th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists up at his Mobile Opportunity blog, so be sure and check it out to see the week’s best writing on mobile. If you missed it, last week’s was at Troy Norcross’ Mobile Marketing and Spam site.
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Plane Text
Quantas announced this week that they are going to allow passengers to send sms during internal flights in Australia, according to 160 Characters, among others. Well, at least they’ll test it on one plane for 12 months.
This is a smart move.
Firstly, as you’re not going to be sitting next to some load mouthed Ozzie shouting [...]
Russell Beattie’s Back With A New Project — Mowser
Russell Beattie’s been busy since he quit blogging last year, he’s just been a little more quiet about it. However, he’s announced a new project, Mowser. It’s a combination of a transcoder (so mobile users can visit full HTML sites), a directory of mobile-friendly sites, and keywords (delivering quick access to certain sites and information [...]
Making Poverty History
A few weeks back, I was interviewed by Cameron Reilly, on his Podcast, G’Day World. After we got through the normal mobile marketing stuff, we got a bit more eclectic and I told the story of John Newman, which I knew would be the kind of thing Cam likes – and presumably his audience.
John Newman [...]
Future Technologies and Forum Oxford
On Friday, I went to ForumOxford’s Future Technologies Conference in Oxford (England) as a speaker and sponsor, but also as an active member of the Forum (apparently one of the most active, which surprised me)¬†and as a delegate, eager to learn new things and network with others in the mobile industry. It didn’t disappoint on [...]
The Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge Effect
My Prediction 5 for this year was that “anyone with a contract who wants a flat rate data package by the end of 2007 will get one” in Europe. While this seemed quite bullish at the time, Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge’s little fictitious character seems to have taken his finger out of the dyke and [...]
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