MobHappy

Mobiles help UK malls track shoppers’ every move | The Register (via JimH):
Mobile phone tracking technology is being put to good use watching how punters migrate around a shopping centre, thanks to gear from Portsmouth-based Path Technologies.
By installing receivers around a shopping centre the company can pick up communication between handsets and base stations, enabling [...]

I’m going to wade once again into one of Russell’s favorite topics, the separatista vs. convergionist debate. Whatever your feelings on the matter, I think we can all probably agree that there’s plenty of unnecessary convergence around. Like this handheld dictionary/MP3 player. Bet the folks at Franklin were left scratching their heads when these things [...]

Cellular News says:
People who send large quantities of SMS messages could be suffering from a mental disorder more usually associated with internet addiction – writes a doctor in the latest issue of the American Journal Of Psychiatry. He wrote that people who are denied access to the internet or mobile phones displayed feelings of anger, [...]

Lampposts on Brick Lane in London are to be fitted with protective padding after the 118 118 information service found it to have the most “walking and texting” injuries in the UK.
I guess “118 118 Rolls Out Lamppost Publicity Stunt” doesn’t have the same ring to it
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According to 160Characters, “A study suggests that over 70 percent of social network users said they wouldn’t join a social network launched by their mobile service provider.”
A couple of thoughts here. I’d hoped that by this point, operators have figured out they can’t launch their own walled-garden social services that are only open to their [...]

Both Marek Pawlowski from the MEX blog and Dean Bubley of Distruptive Wireless have weighed in with posts talking about the sad state of mobile retailing and customer service in the UK. I don’t think it’s all that different from other parts of the world — my experience here in the States hasn’t been much [...]

Back in November, I posted about seeing a couple of small restaurants touting their SMS shortcode offers, and wondered if the trend was really taking hold here in the US. I’ve now noticed that the paper here in town, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has launched its own text alert service.
Again, not a major milestone in [...]

MocoNews says that Nokia and Facebook are in talks over some sort of big deal that will see Facebook get prominent placement in Nokia handsets, and could see Nokia take a stake in the social-networking site.
A few thoughts:
- While Facebook is, without a doubt, pretty damn popular, will it be able to escape the faddishness [...]

During CES, a story came out saying that ESPN.com’s NFL content got more visits from mobile devices than from PCs during one particular 24-hour time period. ESPN.com is a huge site, so this is an interesting tidbit of news — both the stat itself, but also the explanation from an ESPN exec who said they [...]

I’ve been using an EV-DO USB modem from Sprint for about a year now, and I’ve been really, really happy with it. The $60 per month cost is a little steep, but I think it’s probably been balanced out by freeing me from having to pay for expensive WiFi connections at hotels, airports and conferences, [...]