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Archive | September, 2008
Mobile Monday Munich
Last night saw a great MoMoMu, although sadly attendance was down on usual – probably something to do with the Oktoberfest madness. We had three really interesting speakers and if you didn’t come, you missed some very valuable learnings. I will ask them for their presentations and if so, will make them available for download. [...]
TV Like It’s 1941
When I presented this week at the Mobile Web Europe conference, I re-enacted live the very first TV advertisement ever shown, which I thought you might find interesting. But first, why would I be doing this, you might be wondering? Well, I was explaining that when a new media channel emerges, it tends to borrow [...]
Mobile App and Service Roundup: Remote Professional, WorldMate, Skyfire and More
The pain of three exams this week, my first in 9 or so years, put a bit of a damper on my free time, not to mention my spirits. But while I had my nose buried in the books, the news about some new and improved mobile apps and services was piling up: – One [...]
ME Awards
Last night saw 400 leading industry figures gather together in London for the prestigious ME Awards, organised by Mobile Entertainment magazine and it was great to catch up with so many old pals. AdMob picked up the Best Advertising and Marketing Company for the second year running, which was hugely flattering. But then it has [...]
iPhone, Mobile Advertising and Search
One of the characteristics we’ve noticed at AdMob is the phenomenal amount of mobile web pages viewed on iPhones. It’s a combination of a great device, combined with fixed rate data packages (removing click-fear), but also great timing, as there’s more and more compelling content out there, which just didn’t exist a year ago. So [...]
The Truth About Mobile Phone Radiation and Health
Hardly a week goes by without another rumour that some scientist, or in some cases complete nut case, claiming that mobile phone radiation is killing us, lowering sperm count or causing some kind of genetic mutation. Sometimes the case put by the media sounds pretty damning and makes you wonder if we really shouldn’t just [...]
Will You Buy an Android Phone?
Next week should see the launch of the long awaited Android phone and Strategy Analytics are forecasting that they’ll take 4% share of the Smartphone market in Q4 in the US, according to our friends at Mobile Entertainment. This equates to 400,000 handset sales, which seems like quite a lot to me for a high [...]
If It Walks Like A Telco and Talks Like A Telco…
Anybody remember a few years ago when Steve Jobs said that Apple wasn’t that enthusiastic about launching a handset because they’d have to sell it through US operators — which he referred to as “the four orifices”? Steve’s view that the operators made life difficult for innovators and stifled innovation weren’t too far off, but [...]
Clever Marketing From Oasis and the NME
Not exactly mobile-related, but this latest marketing campaign from Oasis and venerable British music mag NME is a pretty genius way to get people excited about the band’s upcoming record. Get Oasis’ “Dig Out Your Soul” music before album release date: The band have teamed up with NME in a musical first, which will see [...]
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