MocoNews broke the story yesterday that the CEO of Fox Mobile/Jamba, Lucy Hood, has resigned. That’s not particularly interesting news, but something in the writeup there, and at RCR, caught my eye. An addition to the MocoNews post paraphrases an anonymous source as saying the JV’s “business/opportunity is more Europe (and Asia) for now than [...]
Archive | October, 2007
Carnival 94 at Taptology
Over at the Taptology blog, Vero Pepperrell has posted the 94th installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists, so go and check it out. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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“We’re Still Talking to Ourselves”
I‚Äôm at the Mobile Marketing Association‚Äôs Mobile Marketing Forum in beautiful Barcelona for a couple of days, which includes Chairing a panel of Ad Agencies. This consisted of Chris Bourke of veteran UK agency, Aerodeon, Stefan Meyer Spickenagel of WPP’s GroupM and local Spanish agencies, Monica Deza of Universal McCann and Sixto Arias of MC [...]
Here’s Another Reason Not To Bluespam: It Doesn’t Deliver Results
I’ve mentioned bluespamming
Vodafone Tries To Answer the iPhone With “Free” Music, Sort Of
Vodafone UK has been pushing mobile music hard as it builds up its holiday sales efforts, with its handset lineup offering a lot of music-centric devices, while it also announced its MusicStation service. MusicStation, powered by Omnifone, embodies the much-talked-about “jukebox in the sky” concept. For 2 pounds a week, Vodafone customers have unlimited access [...]
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Graeme Furguson Talks Bollocks
You have to admire a man who can squeeze “load of bollocks” twice into one interview, dishing out commonsense advice for his old operator colleagues. But Graeme Furguson, ex Head of Global Content Development at Vodafone and now Managing Director of Content at Picsel did exactly that in a recent interview with Paid Content. Picsel, [...]
Features You Need In Your Next Handset
Having pretty much found a way to work in nearly every imaginable feature to mobile handsets, the Japanese have moved on to the really valuable stuff now: DoCoMo is showing off a prototype device that will tell you you’re fat and have bad breath. (Via Boing Boing Gadgets) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and [...]
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Spooky Spy Service
160 Characters writes about a very nasty mobile application that sounds like it’s a James Bond fantasy, but turns out to be apparently genuine. It’s an application that gets installed on your phone and automatically and undetectably sends a copy of all inbound and outbound sms to a third party, as well as the facility [...]
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