Most of the press coverage of Microsoft recently has obviously been focused on their on-off pursuit of the coy Yahoo!. Followed by lots of analyses of what Redmond needs to do now to catch up in Search and Advertising.
Mr Ballmer has also spoken a lot about how they understand that software is moving to [...]
Archive | July, 2008
Windows Mobile in the Dunk Tank
Future Crime
Years ago, I read a scifi novel (can’t remember who by) where the author referred to an all-too-common crime inflicted on women. Saddo blokes would call them on video phones (while blocking their caller ID), with the camera focused on their genitalia and sort of gig about a little.
It actually sounds pretty harmless, albeit very [...]
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ILovetheMobileWeb Awards
One of the Autumn events that I’m speaking at and is shaping up to be very interesting is Informa’s Mobile Web Europe. Lots of great speakers and officially a hot topic these days – at long last.
In fact, now that even mighty media organisations like the BBC (“Boom Times Ahead for the Mobile Web”) are [...]
Alfie and Co. Keeping The Good Stuff Going At MoblogUK
You’ve probably seen us talk about Alfie Dennen and all the cool stuff he and his team have done at moblog:tech before, but he never fails to turn up with cool new things. His latest trick is a brand new platform that’s powering their moblog community. You can check it out in action at Leave [...]
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Consumer Information via SMS
BBC NEWS | Business | Italians dial up best food price:
However, if Italians feel that their local food retailer is charging unreasonable prices, they can now call on a new service to help them haggle or walk away. Thanks to a short message service (SMS) text system set up jointly by the [...]
Qualcomm Plaza: YAMWP, But One Worth Watching
I was out in San Diego a while back for Qualcomm’s annual BREW confab. It’s pretty easy to think of Qualcomm as this monolithic and slightly nasty company that does little more than bully its way to profits with patents and intellectual property and some chips, and is only interested in things that lead to [...]
When Will The Mobile Web Be Mass Market?
My good friend Tarek Abu-Esber wondered earlier this week when the mobile web will hit mass adoption, and more specifically, what would define that:
While I might not go as far as using the term “critical-mass” I definitely agree with the overall idea of their report. The traditional barriers to the Mobile Web are all [...]
VCs Say Don’t Forget The Other Platforms
V.C. Advice to Entrepreneurs: Its Not All About the iPhone – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog:
Though almost every discussion at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Thursday centered around the iPhone, venture capitalists told mobile entrepreneurs to broaden their focus and build applications for all phones. Still, all anyone wanted [...]
Where in the World?
Sometimes it’s nice to have your gutfeel confirmed and Comscore/M:Metrics’ latest findings do just that. They report that map usage is growing far more quickly in mobile that it is online; 82% on the US and 49% growth in Europe against single digit growth via the PC.
This feel right as the map on the mobile [...]
ITU Takes On ICE
About three years ago, Russell posted about the ICE phenomenon (and the ensuing hoax email). It’s pretty well known by now: ICE stands for In Case of Emergency, and the idea is to put the letters in front of a contact in your phone, so emergency workers know who to contact should you be in [...]
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