News comes from London Calling friend Ajit Jaokar about the first ever Mobile Application Stores Conference at CTIA. From a quick scan of the release, it has a great lineup of speakers. More information is presented below:
The Mobile Application Stores, Strategy and Deployment conference http://www.mobileappevent.com/ is proud to announce its all-star speaker lineup for this [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 20, 2009
in app store
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Tagged Ajit Jaokar, app store, apple, Chetan Sharma, Chetan Sharma Consulting, CTIA, futuretext, getjar, Grow VC International, imKon, iphone, Mobile Application Stores conference, OMTP, PlayScreen
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According to a report in New Media Age, mobile internet usage has grown by 4% in Europe.
According to the Forrester report, some 24% of Europeans regularly access the internet on their mobile phones.
The research found mobile internet use increased over the past year, from 20%, and found the growth in take up increased for consumers [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 26, 2009
in mobile internet
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Tagged 3G, 4% mobile web growth, apple, barriers to growth, browsing, data roaming, Forrester, Forrester resrearch, hsdpa, iphone, mobile advertising, mobile internet pricing, mobile web, New Media Age, nma, sponsored informaton, Thomas Husson, unlimited data, vodafone
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I had lunch today with Javier Foncillas who is Director of Branded Content for Vodafone. He was very excited as they have just launched their new Vodafone music service – reaching deals with the leading record labels to provide DRM free MP3 music. From what he told me, it was an interesting process in [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 12, 2009
in music
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Tagged apple, comes with music, digital rights, Douglas Merrill, DRM, DRM free music, EMI music, itunes, Javier Foncillas, mobile music, MP3, Nokia, Peter Knook, Real Networks, Rob Wells, side-load, sideload, sideloaded music, Sony Music, Thomas Hesse, Universal Music, unlimited music on your mobile, Vodadone, Vodafone music, Vodafone Music Catalogue
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With the flurry of announcements about application stores at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recently, it got me thinking…
At what point does an application store from Apple, Nokia or a mobile operator simply become another walled garden?
Let’s check for the signs that app stores are really just a new type of walled garden:
- app store [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 28, 2009
in app store
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Tagged android, Android market, ap store, app store, apple, application store, carrier deck, epoceware, google, iphone, mobile applications, Nokia, o2, operator deck, operator portal, orange, Ovi, symbian, vodafone, walled gardens
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I had a chat to the mippin guys yesterday about a new offering which they are releasing today – more below.
Mippin, the mobile content discovery service, today heralds a new era of interaction between published internet content on Mippin and the touch screen functionality of the iPhone and Android devices. With the first major upgrade [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 22, 2009
in android, iphone
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Tagged apple, g1, google phone, iphone, mippin, mobile content, mobile content discovery, mobile discovery, mobile sites
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I have been reading a ton of reviews and views on the new iPhone and so have resisted blogging about it, save my views just become caught up in the iPhone noise.
Travelling home tonight on the tube, I picked up a copy of London Lite, one of London’s two free evening newspapers.
On one of the [...]
…well not really. The summary from the official Google mobile blog reads
“Wireless phones can make and receive calls because they are connected over the air to a nearby cell tower. The phone knows the ID of the cell tower that it’s currently using. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends [...]
Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week.
In another week in mobile where there has been much discussion [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged apple, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, data, developers, ecosystem, iphone, messaging, mobilists, mobility, network, networking, Nokia, sdk, sip, social, statistics, voip, wireless
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Over at MobHappy which Carlo Longino describes as the “spiritual home” of Carnival of the Mobilists, there is again a wide range of commentary on a range of subjects including…
Dennis at WAP Review takes a look at mobile email WAP sites, and wonders why they don’t offer many of the same features as their desktop [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 21, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged 3G, advertising, apple, barcelona, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, conference, convergence, data, dongle, google, gps, handsets, MobHappy, mobilists, wap
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As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware. Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye.
Then over the next few days others commented [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 20, 2008
in location
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Tagged advertising, apple, google, google my location, gps, iphone, lbs, Local, location, london, mapping, maps, marketing, mobile, mylocation, positioning, skyhook
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