A new survey by Millward Brown, admittedly commissioned by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group themselves, has found that 85% of people are now aware of Bluetooth as a technology and an impressive 68% even recognising the Bluetooth logo itself.
This seems pretty high on first consideration. But the survey methodology was to poll 2,500 consumers in [...]
I’m behind on the blogging front this week - too much work and travel. But on Monday, I went to my third Mobile Monday in a month. This time I was playing at home, in Munich, which I co-founded.
This was really well-attended, with about 200 people, all turning out for the ever popular Demo Night, [...]
Thanks to Russell’s great partnership with the good folks at getAbstract, we’re able to offer MH readers one free download each month. This month, we’ve got Why Most Things Fail by Paul Ormerod, the followup to his successful book Butterfly Economics. Ormerod, formerly with The Economist, looks to biology to explain economics and business, [...]
Today, the Mobile Marketing Association announced the results of the EMEA Board of Directors election, held back in March and for which I asked for your support here at MobHappy.
I’m delighted to announce that not only did I get elected in the face of some very tough competition, but that I’m going to be Chairman [...]
It’s a sign of things really taking off when a mainstream publisher starts taking an interest. So it’s great to see Mobile Internet For Dummies being launched.
Even better is that I know a few of the five authors (Dan Appelquist of Vodafone, Michael O’Farrell of the dotMobi Advisory Group and James Pearce of dotMobi) and [...]
If you’re one of our legions of RSS readers, you won’t have noticed anything, but for those of you who do stop by the MH site, you’ll see we’ve added a Flashy badge for the MH Twitter feed so you can follow us there (and there will be much more happening than “New blog post” [...]
Luca Passani is a mobile tech guru and the guy behind WURFL - if you don’t know, WURFL is an open source project that allows mobile developers to identify which mobile phone a mobile web page is being viewed on. In layman’s terms (the only way I understand it), this allows developers to optimise the [...]
I was speculating a few weeks back that it would be pretty spooky to listen to a voice mail from someone who had died.
Well, it seems that not everyone thinks along the same lines.I picked up this story on Forum Oxford - the free-to-join discussion group with many of the industry’s luminaries taking an active [...]
A. So it could cross the road.
Apparently, Illinois is the first among many US states to consider banning the use of mobile while walking in certain circumstances, among them, crossing the road. And no, the article is not an April First prank as far as I can see.
Having just missed a rather nasty head-on collision [...]
This week, Cuba announced that it would allow ordinary citizens to own mobile phones - previously only officials and foreign workers were allowed them.
This has resulted in what must be one of the lowest penetrations in the world, with a mere 1.7% of the population owning a phone, or about 200,000 handsets. I can also [...]