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MobHappy is a media partner for the Mobile Media Investor Conference in San Francisco on 9th and 10th December and a great speaking line up they have too. We’re giving away two free tickets to the event worth $1,495 each, but there’s a catch. Firstly, you have to be the first of two people to [...]

Years ago, I read a scifi novel (can’t remember who by) where the author referred to an all-too-common crime inflicted on women. Saddo blokes would call them on video phones (while blocking their caller ID), with the camera focused on their genitalia and sort of gig about a little. It actually sounds pretty harmless, albeit [...]

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Andrew Grill’s blog, so make sure you check out the best writing about mobile and mobile technology of the last 7 days. Andrew recently asked a question from the floor at a conference in which he called me the “Grandfather of Mobile Marketing”. While I appreciated the [...]

Mobile World Congress was a bit of a washout for MobHappy. Carlo already wrote about the shrimp wot did for him. In my case, I had about 10 meetings a day, plus the parties to handle. If that wasn’t enough to prevent blogging, no access to wifi in my apartment hammered the nail into the [...]

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Build-to-order cell phone store launched | Computerworld Blogs Custom phones from China… got spammed about this yesterday, wonder if it is legit (tags: china) Turning Symbian Smartphones into Mini Wi-Fi Hotspots (tags: wifi symbian s60) BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart tags hail the web of things (tags: rfid) FCC Approves Sale of Nationwide Spectrum [...]

BlackBerry “Remote Stereo Gateway” found on FCC – Orbitcast.com (tags: blackberry) What does the Trolltech buyout mean for other Mobile Linux vendors? (tags: nokia linux trolltech) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

Interesting report from the Yankee Group suggesting that revenues from the mobile web could be as high as $66 Billion, as opposed to the $9.5 Billion it actually is today. Crucially, large numbers of consumers are being denied affordable and reliable mobile access to the internet and service providers are missing out on a huge [...]

The silly reason of news has arrived a little early with this story of thirsty plants phoning their owners to ask for more water. A group of post-grads at New York University, have been working on a project they call “Botanicals”, which consists on a water sensor in the soil, connecting over a wireless LAN [...]