Indulge me in a little Friday rant. I like predictive text on my handsets, I really do. Makes things a lot easier — most of the time. But I never cease to be amazed at some of the words in the dictionary. It’s something of a rite of passage for a new handset when I [...]
Archive | February, 2008
Shocker: ‘Little Interest In Operator Social Network’
According to 160Characters, “A study suggests that over 70 percent of social network users said they wouldn’t join a social network launched by their mobile service provider.” A couple of thoughts here. I’d hoped that by this point, operators have figured out they can’t launch their own walled-garden social services that are only open to [...]
Sprint’s Reply: $100 a Month For “Everything”
Last week, three of the major US operators announced $100/month flat-rate voice plans (with T-Mobile throwing in SMS and MMS as well). There was a lot of speculation about how Sprint might respond, with much of it saying that the company would probably just slash prices. Sprint today announced its “Simply Everything” plan, which gives [...]
links for 2008-02-28
Thomas Husson – m.brandname.com m.facebook.com m.linkedin.com m.yahoo.com… .mobi, where are you? (tags: mobile-web .mobi) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
links for 2008-02-27
iPhone SDK won’t be here in February after all | The Register (tags: apple iphone) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Thoughts on Native Mobile Apps v Mobile Web Apps
Carlo gave a nice summary yesterday of the state of play of Native Mobile Apps (like JME), as opposed to developing for the mobile web, quoting recent deep thoughts by luminaries in the mobosphere such as Michael Mace, Mike Rowehl and Dean Bubley. If you’re a regular reader of MobHappy, you’ll know that this is [...]
links for 2008-02-26
Tech Beat Nokia: Looking at Flexible, Stretchable Cell Phones – BusinessWeek (tags: nokia) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Sounding The Death Knell For Native Mobile Apps
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the merits of mobile native development compared to mobile web development. Native mobile development is so complex and fraught with so many pitfalls, and that situation doesn’t look like it’s changing much, despite the advances many handset manufacturers and platform providers trumpet. Myriad technical issues remain, while the [...]
Get Paid to See Advertising
There’s a theory, that’s gaining credence right now, that we’re in a bubble. The evidence cited is that lots of companies are being funded with ideas that are either a little crazy or being launched into already saturated markets. An example might be companies still launching into the mobile ad network business. Now I might [...]
links for 2008-02-22
Blyk Advertisers, Sceptical On Subscriber Numbers, Just ‚ÄòDon‚Äôt Get It‚Äô | mocoNews.net (tags: blyk uk) Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: WiFi vs 3G and session-based mobile broadband (tags: wifi 3g) Tokyo tests data hotspots for tourists and shoppers | Technology | The Guardian (tags: japan tokyo rfid) Open APIs In Xohm‚Äôs Future – GigaOM (tags: wimax [...]
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