Please see the update to this story — AT&T says you don’t need to sign a contract to get SIM-only service. Unless you’ve been on Mars, you’ve noticed all the talk in the mobile industry about “openness”. Perhaps as part of its push to be “the most open wireless company in the industry”, as its [...]
Archive | January, 2008
Nokia + Facebook = ???
MocoNews says that Nokia and Facebook are in talks over some sort of big deal that will see Facebook get prominent placement in Nokia handsets, and could see Nokia take a stake in the social-networking site. A few thoughts: – While Facebook is, without a doubt, pretty damn popular, will it be able to escape [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists #107
Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists, 107th edition, back at its spiritual home. We’ve got a great set of submissions this week from a wide range of blogs and authors, so without further ado, here we go. Dennis at WAP Review takes a look at mobile email WAP sites, and wonders why they don’t [...]
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DirecTV Launches Remote DVR Scheduling — With A Mobile Version
US satellite TV provider DirecTV has launched a new feature that allows its DVR subscribers to remotely schedule recordings. Users can do it via the DirecTV.com web site, but the company is also prominently advertising the mobile version of the service, available at m.directv.com. Similar services have been available in other countries for some time [...]
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It Never Works
There’s two great sounding business models that never seem to work in mobile. That doesn’t stop a steady stream of companies, ranging from start-ups to large corporates trying them again and again. The first is location based sms offers from shops in the area. I’ve been there and done that one – ask me for [...]
The Case For Co-browsing, Or How ESPN.com Got More Mobile Than PC Visitors
During CES, a story came out saying that ESPN.com’s NFL content got more visits from mobile devices than from PCs during one particular 24-hour time period. ESPN.com is a huge site, so this is an interesting tidbit of news — both the stat itself, but also the explanation from an ESPN exec who said they [...]
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Text Answer Services Take Off In The US
A couple of text answer services — with the same idea as AQA or Texperts in the UK: you text in a question, and they write back (hopefully) with an answer — have launched in the US, called Johnny27 (via SMS Text News), and ChaCha (via AP). They do basically the same thing, with one [...]
Gearing Up For 3GSM, er MWC
The event formerly known as the 3GSM — now called the “Mobile World Congress” — in Barcelona is about a month away. We’ll be there again, covering the event in the inimitable MH style, and looking to meet up with community members and other interesting folks at a variety of events. In addition to the [...]
DLD 08
It’s that time again. Next week, a veritable Who’s Who of digital media, arts and entertainment converge on Munich for Burda’s famousDLD 08. To give an idea of DLD’s importance in the calendar, many of the speakers and delegates are going straight on to Davos for the World Economic Forum to hobnob with the likes [...]
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links for 2008-01-17
Al-Qaida looks to extend its reach with cell phone videos – Yahoo! News interesting, and hardly surprising. (tags: video p2p) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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