Fast is better than slow, Google says, when it comes to mobile. But they’ve got data to back that up — with a chart! They say that S60 and BlackBerry users that install their home-screen search shortcuts not only see a 40 percent increase in the speed of their search results, but they also perform [...]
Archive | March, 2008
More on Sprint’s Awesome Transcoder (That Breaks The Mobile Web)
I pointed out on Monday how Dennis at Wap Review had discovered that Sprint has rolled out a lovely transcoder — a la Vodafone — that sends a dummy user agent to web sites, instead of the proper user agent of their customers’ handsets. The latest update was that people could ask for their sites [...]
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links for 2008-03-19
Paper Is Out, Cellphones Are In – New York Times (tags: qr-codes) Japan marks funeral for second-generation phones – Yahoo! News (tags: japan 2g) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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It’s About Time
I’ve been searching around for quite some time for a WordPress client for S60 that would let me write and edit blog posts from my mobile. I’m not the only one — Ewan over at SMS Text News even went so far as to engage a developer through Rent-A-Coder or something to try and get [...]
Grab the Tanla Mobile Marketing and Advertising Guide
I think that a Tanla Mobile party might have been the source of all my fun in Barcelona… but I won’t hold a grudge. Especially as they’ve put out their Mobile Marketing and Advertising Guide, edited by MH pal and Swedish Beers impresario Helen Keegan, and featuring a contribution from my capable cohort Russell. I [...]
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links for 2008-03-18
Industry Moves: Motorola Replaces European Head of Mobile Devices & Treasurer | mocoNews.net all change at Motorola: “Since January, when new CEO Greg Brown took over, Motorola has replaced its head of mobile devices, finance, human resources, technology, and marketing.” (tags: motorola) Tech Trader Daily – Barron‚Äôs Online : Palm: Analysts See Centro Strength Eating [...]
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Sprint Starts Hiding User Agents (and Breaking the Mobile Web), Too
You might remember the stink that was raised last year when Vodafone decided to break the mobile web by using a transcoder that sent sites a user agent for a PC browser, rather than the proper user agent from their customers’ mobile browsers. This renders user-agent based auto-detection useless, undoing the hard work of developers [...]
A Little More Conversation
I was at Visiongain’s MAMA (Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards) conference this week (oddly, I can’t find any online link). As with so many of these things, there were lots of vendors there and very few advertisers – and certainly few big brand or agency folks. We’re still talking to ourselves, in other words and [...]
Hyperspatial Express Route Planning
In the classic first scene of the sadly-missed Douglas Adams’s novel, the Vogon fleet demolishes the earth and all its inhabitants to make way for a hyperspatial express route. When the Vogons announce their intention to destroy it within the next few minutes and they observe the earthlings’ panicked reactions, they testily tell them: “There’s [...]
Old Navy, Old Hat
One of the big TV campaigns over in the US right now is for Old Navy – the clothing brand, as opposed to some kind of senior branch of the floating military. It’s actually pretty hip as a fashion statement (but then, what do I know?) and well thought through on lots of marketing levels, [...]
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