CTIA: Brendan Benzing Vice President Search and Advertising Infospace or now Motricity Mobile Search

Rating: huge huge potential

by Bena Roberts

So first of all I have to apologise because I just realised that I met Brendan before and I spelt his name wrong on this blog and also on the podcast. I wrote Brenzing on Benzing. So sorry.

World Telemedia: How customers click and buy – find out

CTIA: Omar Tawakol Chief Advertising Officer Medio Systems

Rating: sun and tea

by Bena Roberts

Again Annie knows Omar Tawakol

CTIA: Eric Eller Senior Vice President Millennial Media

Rating: decktrading

Annie has met Millennial Media several times but this was my first encounter and I have to say that I was impressed. Eric is a great guy and I started out with the big tough question.

Voice on the Go app control for iPhone

CTIA: Finger on the (Blue)pulse

Rating: Socially acceptable
By Tony Alton

With most social networks mobile seems more of an afterthought - slapping a mobile interface onto the existing web-page - however the founder of Bluepulse has been single-mindedly developing a mobile social platform for 5 years. Founder Ben Keighran is the living stereotype of startup, starting in his bedroom when  just 19 and slowly perfecting his mobile social messaging application and later browser based social messaging platform, until he moved to the Bay area and was taken under the wing of a VC firm.

CTIA: 3 Italia sign for Novarra client

CTIA: KT-Tech and the great cameraphone swindle

CTIA: MS Livesearch for mobile 6.0

Rating: Don’t you know it’s local?
By Tony Alton

Walking past the MS stand i was drawn in by the overt niceness that all the demo staff seem to exude.  I think once you go into the Redmond campus on your first day you are lobotomised and a pleasant chip forced into your head.  I was just urging her to burst out swearing, but alas nothing but happiness and smiles throughout.

CTIA: End2End4Terraplay

CTIA: Dustin Moskovitz Liveblog

Rating: Many faces in the audience
By Tony Alton

09:24 - I have made it to the second big keynote of the event on time for once - Dustin Moskovitz the co-founder of Facebook is going to tell us how the social networking site de jour is embracing the mobile world.  The audience of about 500 people has also embraced the social media nature of the day and has largely turned up in jeans or has combined their suit with white trainers.  More to follow.

Decktrade 2.0 has two claims to fame

Rating: Does it do what it says on the tin?

By Annie Turner

Millennial Media is unveiling its Decktrade 2.0 website, geared to helping mobile advertisers create “the easiest, most compelling user experience possible on mobile”.

Yahoo! looks to Asia Pacific markets for growth

Rating: east is east

By Annie Turner

According to a Reuters’ report, Yahoo! expects to announce a series of partnerships with mobile carriers in Asia in coming weeks, as it looks to its mobile services division for growth.

US leads the way in data spending

Rating: tariffs, tariffs, tariffs

By Annie Turner

Subscribers in North America generate the highest monthly ARPU from mobile data services worldwide, at USD 8.90 in 2Q of this year, according to the September 2007 edition of Informa Telecoms & Media’s World Cellular Data Metrics. Subscribers in Western Europe generate USD7 per month, on average.

CTIA: Orange Partner Camp party – Supper Club

Rating: Vodka is really not my drink

I drank Vodka tonight and I think it was a mistake as I feel a bit weepy. But that is not because I didn’t have a great night – because I did. Orange Partner Camp know how to party! I had a fantastic chat with Sun on Java apps; I bumped into the adorable Steve Glagow Orange Developer guru again and also Yves Martin my favourite Orange device man.

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