MobHappy

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, [...]

A service in Hong Kong called “Follow Me, Follow You” (maybe they could get Alan Partridge as celebrity spokesman) is apparently being used by tens of thousands of people to track their spouse’s movements, according to news reports. The service, offered by 3HK, sounds like your typical friend-finder application, and requires users to get authorization [...]

The New York Times Magazine has a great article on handset recycling in its latest issue, looking at some of the different things that can happen to handsets after their owner moves on. It takes a look inside a metals reclamation plant that takes precious metals out of old electronics, and also looks at the [...]

I survived CES, and I’ll have some thoughts from it up later. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy another tale of mobile phones and dumb criminals. In South Africa, police put out a statement talking about the “dumbest criminal” they’ve run into in a while: Police in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, claim to have to caught the “dumbest [...]

In addition to venturing out of my cave for coffee, I also got a haircut today (productive, I know). The woman who cuts my hair got an iPhone for Christmas, and we were chatting about our experiences with and thoughts about it. She expressed some dismay that she had to switch from T-Mobile to AT&T [...]

I said yesterday that we’re at the tipping point for the mobile web. So I go today and get a coffee from the local caffeine dealer, and the sleeve on the cup features an ad for Yahoo’s mobile flight status service. The service itself is no big deal, after all, plenty of people offer similar [...]

Regular MH readers are well aware of the potential dangers of using your mobile phone while driving, but some researchers in Utah say that people chatting while driving are also messing up traffic for everybody else. One of them characterizes the findings thusly: “It’s a bit like breaking wind in the elevator. Everyone suffers,” Peter [...]

I’ve come across a couple articles about American kids and their mobile/online behavior. The first comes from USA Today and talks about how young people are using their handsets for shopping. There’s a lot of stuff in there that sounds like vendor hype, but some of the behavioral stuff is worth noting — in particular, [...]

Like so many other industries, the green business craze is evident in mobile. Nokia stressed its green cred at its event in Amsterdam last week, and just today, Vodafone and Ericsson announced that the operator would use Ericsson’s Power Savings feature in its base stations. The feature “significantly reduces energy consumption in mobile networks and [...]