I’m here in San Francisco today for the UIQ Fast Track developer event (give me a shout if you’re here too), and a Moto VP is giving a talk right now. He’s talking up the Z8, the company’s UIQ handset which was announced at 3GSM a few months back — and looks pretty fantastic. Now, [...]
Archive | May, 2007
Mobile Web is 19% of PC Web
Telephia and comScore announced today what many of us have long suspected Рthat the mobile web is growing like Topsy. In fact, 5.7 million people in the UK use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. This means that the mobile web is already nearly one fifth the [...]
A Friday Afternoon Must-Read
It’s 5:30 on a Friday, and I’m not feeling the blogging rush of energy that I did last week, but I gotta share this gem from the ever-entertaining Ewan’s SMS Text News site. If you ever have the pleasure of meeting Ewan, be sure to ask him for one of his fantastic business cards. The [...]
Motorola Still Missing The Point?
Motorola’s CEO Ed Zander’s been busy fending off the advances of activist investor Carl Icahn, who was looking to make Zander and the company’s management accountable for its missteps. It’s been quite obvious for a long time that the company didn’t have anything to build on the success of the RAZR, and now it’s feeling [...]
Emerging Markets Call For Novel Thinking, Not Just Basic Products
Last week, Nokia announced several new handsets for emerging markets. At first glance, they look like what you’d expect: basic devices without the flashy features of the company’s high-end handsets. However, a couple of the most basic-looking, the 1200 and the 1208, have some cool features of their own that should give them a boost [...]
Mobile Widget Week in London
The time has come for mobile widgets, so if you need to educate yourself or promote your company’s offerings, head over to London for Mobile Widget Week from 14th May to 22nd May. And yes, they realise that 9 days is a poetic interpretation of a week. Here’s the agenda for the extravaganza, all of [...]
Number Of Voice Calls Dropping In the UK
Is the post-voice mobile era upon us? Stats out of the UK show a significant drop in the number of voice calls both pre- and postpaid users are making each week. Last year, prepay users made an average of 14 calls per week; this year, it’s down to 10. Postpaid users similarly fell, from 35 [...]
We’ve Got Your Number
“Use it or lose it” is one of the fundamental precepts of evolutionary biology and it seems that mobiles are having an affect on our short term memory. Mobile Marketing Magazine writes that a survey undertaken my mobile phone back up company, ZYB says that 69% of people can’t even remember 5 numbers stored on [...]
iPhone Prediction Whip-Out
Through Michael Mace’s ever-entertaining site, I found another blog I’ve been enjoying recently, Open IT Strategies by James West. He recently did a post on marketing guru-type-person Seth Godin’s challenge to pundits and analysts to predict just how well the iPhone’s going to sell. West says 1.5 million in 2007, and I thought it might [...]
A Couple Of Peeves
One more post for Friday… I’ve been playing with a Samsung SYNC handset that Cingular sent me a couple of weeks ago, ostensibly to check out their mobile music offerings. I say ostensibly because I’m having a hell of a time getting the thing to work inside my house, since it seems to get really [...]
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