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Tomi Ahonen’s Almanac

It’s that time of the year again. Our pal, Tomi Ahonen (consultant, speaker, blogger, Tweeter, raconteur and all-round good Mobilist) has just launched his Almanac for the year – a steal at €9.99. For our US readers, we don’t use dollars here, but it’s about $13.57 in your language.
Tomi’s Almanac is one of the most [...]

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Mobile Premier Awards – Hope to See You There

The final agenda for Team Rudy’s Mobile Premier Awards has been announced – you can read all about it here..
It’s one of my favourite events of the year and it’ll be the fourth year I’ve been on the jury – I’ve been involved since the beginning – and it gets better and bigger every year. [...]

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40% off M-Football Tickets

I’m just getting my agenda sorted out for the year and the first event I’m doing is M-Football next week in London, which looks like a great kick off (sorry!) for the World Cup year and one which will be hugely important for mobile too.
If you’d like a whopping 40% off and a day at [...]

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Just A Few More Days Til Heroes of the Mobile Screen In London!

Just A Few More Days Til Heroes of the Mobile Screen In London!

In a few short days, on Monday, December 7, Heroes of the Mobile Screen is going down in London — and tickets are going fast, so don’t get left out! It promises to be a great day with lots of great speakers and sessions, and of course all the great attendees for networking and conversation. [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists – The End?

Many of you are readers and/or contributors of the Carnival of the Mobilists, that started here at MobHappy about 4 years ago and has now been published an impressive 196 times. During that time, it’s become something of an institution, with many of the best writers about mobile taking part.
[For those that don't know, the [...]

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Media Week

Just a little personal update for those who might be interested.
I (Russell) have also started blogging over at Media Week at a site I’ve called Mobsessed – a word I made up a few weeks back. You can check out my first few posts here. I’d be especially interested in your opinions on this rather [...]

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We’re Twitterly Mobsessed

As I’ve said before, a lot of my writing energy is going on Twitter these days, especially interesting links and stuff like that. Yesterday I wrote a brief (obviously) tweet about a report on people who are really into their mobiles, who were dubbed Smartphoniacs.
This description didn’t sound quite right to me – a little [...]

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Mobile Microfinancing

I’ve written about microfinancing a few times in the past, most recently about Kiva, and now I’m pleased to see that microfinance has met mobile.
If microfinance is a new idea to you, it has really exploded in the last few years, ever since the Grameen Bank pioneered the concept in Bangladesh. Read more about Nobel [...]

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Layar Points the Way

Raimo van der Klein, who among other things is a founder of the excellent MoMoNe (Mobile Monday Nederlands) has just launched Layar, the world’s first mobile augmented reality browser.
If your response is WFT? – maybe you shouldn’t be here? As chance would have it, I was writing about the very same idea this morning in [...]

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OrSiSo – Give it a Spin

I’m attending the Mobile Marketing Forum in Singapore at the moment and jolly interesting it is too. Overall, the spurious “year of mobile marketing” (not that there is such a thing really – I mean when was the year of the car, or the internet?) does seem to be in the past. Brands such as [...]

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