Archive for September, 2007

SMSfun

by: admin September 27, 2007

Rating: SMS sexy message service? (Not funny)

Smsfun.com.au is an Australian based SMS mobile community. It launched in early 2006 and in 18 months has seen huge growth and expansion to New Zealand and now the UK.

Smsfun.co.uk was acquired this month.

Quattro Wireless Playboys

by: admin September 27, 2007

Rating: GetMobile? NO. Get Playboy

Saucy mens magazine Playboy has signed up Quattro’s GetMobile platform for advertising and site rendering.

QR codes, Coupons Big in Japan – but don’t forget France

by: admin September 27, 2007

Rating: the future

I would like to point readers to a great article in my favourite daily read The Guardian.

Why?
1. There is a brilliant picture of people using mobile on the train
2. There is a great quote from our friends at Wireless Watch Japan
3. It’s interesting.
But…

Mobile Book Worm? Comic Worm? Mobile Worm?

by: admin September 27, 2007

Rating: too small or just right?

It seems that mobile books are in. The Japanese set trends and Japanese people are reading trillions of novels on mobile. On of Japan’s leading mobile publishers Maho i-Land has six million members and over one million book titles to choose from.

Slip of the finger leads to Warney being caught out

by: admin September 27, 2007

Rating: Males-box full - please delete wife to make space for more
By Tony Alton
Couldn’t resist blogging on this (loosely related) mobile story making the headlines. Cricket hero Shane Warne (for our US readers cricket is that game a bit like baseball which takes 18 weeks and Shane Warne is a podgy Australian who is the [...]

Airwide grows a marketing brain

by: admin September 27, 2007

Rating: War and Peace release
By Tony Alton

Imagine being a network operator.  It’s utter chaos.  There you are, being all friendly like and providing exceptional connectivity for the people and listening to their every need, it’s almost a public service.  And what do the people do?  They whine and moan about prices and then they have the utter audacity to use whatever handset they please on your fat pipe.  It’s criminal.

Myxer magics 6.5 million funding

by: admin September 27, 2007

The social networking and mobile VC funding boom

by: admin September 26, 2007

Rating: what goes up, must come down

This has been a very hectic September for GoMo News and BKI Media with many social, business, speaking, commentating and blogging engagements. But now my feet are on the ground and will be here until Tuesday, I can finally do email.

So this month I missed a number of blogging opportunities. Most of them in the VC space and this is quick round-up of the press releases that I received and missed. They tell a very, very interesting tale.

Grasswhispers corporate podcasting via mobile

by: admin September 26, 2007

Rating: this sounds scary

In one of the latest Dr. Who episodes everyone has to wear ear pieces for the sake of corporate communications. When I read this email it reminded me of that Dr. Who episode the one with the Cybertrons and where Rose Tyler’s parents are all posh and she is a dog (if you know the name let me know).

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