Where did Ericsson go wrong?

NBC Universal invests in 4INFO

Yellowpages goes loco with new apps

World Telemedia: cross platform marketing debate

Rating: crucial stuff

By Annie Turner

My second stint next week as Ethel “call me madam “Mermon at the World Telemedia conference is on Friday 9th November, when I’ll be chairing a panel on Powering Up Cross Platform Marketing with Telemedia between 3.30 and 4.30.

Greystripe shows Vivendi the way in ad-supported games

Rating: it’s a wrap
Vivendi Games Mobile and Greystripe are going to work together to offer ad-supported free games on mobile. This is the first time that the subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Games has moved into the ad-based mobile game market, according to A&E Interactive, whereas Greystripe has already generated 21 million downloads.

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Nokia seeks to impress with Music Store demos

Mobile ad revenues: USD5.08bn by 2012

Rating; something’s got to give first

By Annie Turner

Local mobile search, part of Opus Research, has released research that forecasts the US and Western European mobile advertising revenues will reach a combined USD 5.08bn by 2012, up from an estimated USD 106.8m at year end 2007. The US is anticipated to drive roughly USD2.3bn of the total, while European markets will see revenues approaching USD 2.8bn within the forecast period. The figure represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 116% for the combined regions.

SinglePoint wins ‘biggest ever’ marketing contract for a media co

T and my shadow

Operators to invest $50bn in Africa

EIDQ Directory Information Industry Conference

Rating: making local search better

By Bena Roberts

I am currently in the Latvia in the beautiful city of Riga. I am feeling very nostalgic here and the architecture, way people dress and cold reminds me of my university days in Hungary. When I went to Hungary in 1995 t study European Union and Business I wanted to be a politician. But how things change! By the end of the Masters I had majored in economics.

Mobile Search fails to reach its peak at CTIA

by Bena Roberts

At this year’s CTIA talk on mobile search and advertising was subdued.
Yahoo!’s bullish CES launch of Go! was replaced with zero representation; a few rumblings were heard from Google but the gPhone was not announced; AOL enforced the bullishness of branded search on the market with its new proposition and the silence of its rivals indicated that they might have peaked slightly early. Microsoft went all out on devices and its shares leap is more to do with an overall mood of evangelism from the Microsoft camp from providing community services than search.

Gracenote provides MTV with mobile music lyric search

Rating: la, la, la, la, la, la, la la – I just can’t get you out of my head

by Bena Roberts

A few weeks ago in an Irish pub quiz in Darmstadt I won first prize for the music section of the quiz. I raise up my hands now and declare I cheated.

TruePosition LBS Services

Rating: shut up and find me

by Bena Roberts

Its been a really long and stressful day. So I sit down with a glass of Champagne in the Reval Hotel in Latvia and check the wires for some blogs I have missed and what has been read on GoMo.

The power of recommendation in China

Mobile News for Leaders