mBlox, the world’s largest mobile transaction business,¬†have just published some interesting research¬†(registration required) about the world of off-portal, based on questioning 340 mobile users in the UK, France and Germany. An incredible 72% of people, who had previously purchased mobile content, didn’t know they could purchase it anywhere but from their operator. In other words, [...]
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Pocket Portal Review
If you’re not from around these parts, you’ll have missed that the mobile web is beginning to hit its stride and blossom into a really useful tool and one that’s now widely used by a significant proportion of the population. In fact, in certain markets, the mobile web is very big indeed already (India and [...]
What’s .mobi Playing At Now?
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of .mobi. I haven’t had much to add since I posted on it back in May, so I’ve avoided writing about it here. But the mobile-specific domain’s administrators have done a couple things recently I want to draw attention to. Last week, over at Techdirt, I posted [...]
Scan it with your Mobile
It‚Äôs been possible for ages to take pictures of documents with your mobile’s camera, upload them to a PC and then view them very clearly. The trouble is that they have to be blown up so big to be¬†legible¬†that you can‚Äôt read them at A4 size on your screen or print them out, which makes [...]
Background Tones
Way back in the late 90′s, we had that weird idea that people could personalise the sound their phone made when it rang. And so, perhaps the least expected billion dollar market emerged since err…sms a few years earlier. So don’t scoff at background tones which are the happening trend in India, according to Mobile [...]
Yahoo and Mobile Search
One of my fellow speakers at the Barcelona chapter of Mobile Monday was Ricardo Baeza-Yates Director of Yahoo! Research Barcelona. Ricardo had to leave early, so we didn’t have much of a chance for a chat, but there were some very interesting aspects of his presentation. I think it’s fair to say that Ricardo¬†sees mobile [...]
Asking The Wrong Questions About Ad-Supported Content
A new study says that half of European mobile users are interested in mobile TV, and would pay an average of €10 per month for it. That seems pretty high, butwhat’s more interesting is that the study found “over 65% of those questioned expressing zero tolerance to what many consider to be an unwelcome intrusion [...]
Listen with Keren
I was interviewed yesterday by Keren Flavell for The Mobile Media Show – which was great as it’s one of my favourite podcasts. You can hear the results here or subscribe at iTunes. Let me know what you think. And be kind please. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Hiding The Mobile Internet
A new study from the UK says that just 11% of British mobile users have “browsed the Internet on a mobile”, compared to 28% worldwide. I find the UK stat pretty hard to believe, given the healthy mobile content market there, though it does appear to jive with M:Metrics’ usage figures from March. The survey [...]
Google and the Mobile Sex Search Mystery
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that people are using Google mobile search to find porn, but a new study has found that this type of search is twice as likely to happen as on Google on computers. Nearly 1 in 5 mobile searches are looking for adult entertainment, with the runners up [...]
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