Well then. Yet again I am reminded of how supremely rubbish the mobile industry is. Occasionally I manage to pull myself out of this stupor and allow myself to get very excited at the possibilities. Then reality slaps me on the face with a big, wet haddock. I’ve been doing some work in Richmond-Upon-Thames. Near [...]
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The Smartphone Obsession in Marketing, Part 2
The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 2 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. I caught up with Mark Freeman, one of the founders of mobile agency, Movement, at the recent IAB Mobile event. Given Mark’s company has been working with many of the leading lights [...]
Amazon sells a billion dollars worth of goods via mobile
I wanted to document the rather astounding news (reported by Staci at paidContent.org) that the almighty Amazon is now doing more than $1 billion in sales through mobile devices (including Kindle). I’m not surprised. I’ve been using Amazon’s iPhone app at least a few times a week to order batteries, nappies, books, chargers, a whole [...]
Women in Mobile Data luncheon — 23rd July — be there!
Women in Mobile Data is an excellent organisation advancing the female cause within the mobile industry. Pick any mobile company and you’re virtually guaranteed to find it 97% male. It’s not necessarily a deliberate thing, it’s just — well — historically, the mobile industry has been extremely boring. It’s been about wires, pipes, microwave dishes [...]
Congratulations InMobi: Another $8m funding round completed
Another $8m has arrived in the InMobi bank account this morning courtesy of existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. It’s for the company’s series B round and brings the total financing raised to $15m. I’ve been following the company for quite some time and I’m delighted to see that their investors [...]
Welcome to 2001
I don’t know if there’s much different in the decade since I’ve been actively visiting the States on business. Yeah they’ve obviously now, more or less, got 3G data here, but the stupid data pricing offered by Vodafone (and the rest of the US operators) is utterly, utterly inexcusable. Here’s what I got from Vodafone [...]
Senior Mobile Market 2010: Stirling Moss is speaking!
Are you going to Senior Mobile Market this year? The agenda is packed and I think it’s looking like a brilliant event for anyone interested in the largely overlooked senior mobile market. There’s still time to register — the event is on July 6th in London. Here are the details from one of the organisers, [...]
Are you going to IAB Engage for Mobile?
Are you heading to the IAB Engage For Mobile event tomorrow at London’s Millbank Tower? If so, I’m taking the camera to do some filming so if you’d like to be on camera, just drop me a note or seek me out at the event (the IAB organisers will know where I am if you’re [...]
Orange will follow o2 with data caps on price plans – source
There is a substantial amount of consternation across the geek community at the rather limiting new data policies from o2. Whereas before most customers enjoyed a fair use data policy of 1GB, the company’s new plans introduce a monthly data cap of 500MB. If you go over this, you’ll then have to buy another 500MB [...]
‘Wrapped’ content is on the increase
I got some news in from Jens Lauritzon, MD of Accumulate UK (that’s him above). I’m really, really liking the Accumulate concept. First, though, let’s have a bit of background… Imagine the scene – you’re a 15 year old in Thailand on a PAYG deal and you’ve just got a new phone. You’ve been playing [...]
App revenues to exceed $30bn by 2015
Juniper Research has been looking at mobile application stores in depth. You can get the report here. I’m pleased that the report points out that it’s not all about the iPhone. Obviously with 4 billion downloads to April 2010, the iTunes App Store is a monster, but, as Juniper point out, brands and developers shouldn’t [...]
InMobi hits 16bn impressions and launches in the States
It was, I think, over two years ago when I met Anne Frisbie who had just started working for InMobi (she runs their US operations). I think we were in Las Vegas at CTIA or somewhere similar. I remember her explaining that InMobi was a rising star in the mobile advertising marketplace at a time [...]
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