Following my post last week about Tomi Ahonen being interviewed on CNN about his new book “Digital Korea”, quite a few of you have asked where they can buy it. Here’s the link to Future Text, the publisher founded by Ajit Jaokar, who I also wrote my first and only book (so far) with. I [...]
Archive | October, 2007
Stat to Chew On
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, spoke at Google’s analyst day today, and shared some stats about the net. This one caught my eye: There are currently 1.244 billion internet users, on about a billion PCs. There are 3 billion mobile phones in use. I’m not reading too much into that or [...]
UIQ/Motorola and Other Symbian Notes
I was in London earlier this week and hit Symbian’s Smartphone Show. The big news news was twofold: Motorola buying half of UIQ, and Nokia’s announcement of an S60 touchscreen interface. First, on UIQ: this is a fairly big piece of news, as it would appear to confirm earlier statements from people at the company [...]
Push and Pull
I was talking to Nick Lane in Barcelona last week. Nick was the excellent MC of the MMA Forum in Barcelona and ex-Informa Principal Analyst, now doing his own thing at d2Consult – if you’re interested in anything from expert strategic planning to investment proofing your business plan, get in touch with him. One of [...]
More Mobile Web Stats
AdMob (my employer) released a whole bunch of stats about the mobile web today, along with some global and local trends and handset analysis. Given the frustrating lack of data about the mobile web generally, there’s some interesting stuff in there. It’s also based on the 1.5 Billion ads served every month globally, which means [...]
Tomi Hits CNN
MobHappy pal, author and speaker, Tomi Ahonen got interviewed about his new book, “Digital Korea” on CNN, no less. Congrats, Tomi! See the video here. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Still A Little Mystified By FON
FON, the upstart community-based Wi-Fi network, announced a deal with BT last week, in which the carrier said it would equip 1.7 million of its customers’ home DSL gateways with FON software, turning them into FON access points. The basic premise of FON’s network is that people who deploy its access points or software can [...]
Google Maps With GPS Support Is Great, But…
The mobile blogosphere was abuzz today with the news that Google’s released a version of Google Maps for Mobile that supports the internal GPS of the Nokia N95 and other S60 phones. I love Google Maps for Mobile, it’s definitely one of my all-time top mobile apps, and it’s helped me out on numerous occasions. [...]
Mobile TV Seems to be in Trouble
I’ve always struggled with the marriage of Mobile and TV. In the height of the hyperbole and hype back in 2004, I wrote I tend to favour the TV/video model of short, made-for-mobile clips (say, 5 minutes tops). Or programmes specifically designed to be viewed like that – maybe like the typical news/magazine programme today. [...]
Mobile 2.0 Event Monday in San Francisco
For anybody in the Bay Area, or who will be in town for the Web 2.0 conference, MH pals Rudy de Waele, Mike Rowehl and others are again putting on Mobile 2.0 on Monday at the Grand Hyatt there. It’s a single-day event with a full slate of great speakers covering the mobile side of [...]
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