Mobile Search: MCN’s Michael Crane

Rating: how things change

by Bena Roberts

Two weeks ago mobile search provider MCN-inc’s Michael Crane invited me for a “lovely lunch in San Francisco – in an exclusive restaurant”. But two weeks on; we met today and had a free sandwich in the CTIA press room.

AOL Mobile Search

Rating: its keeping me awake

So I can’t sleep and I have 100 things to test, but after meeting AOL yesterday the product manager Farhan Memon was hugely hugely enthusiastic. In fact; I have met that many people from Microsoft and Yahoo! but no one has jumped around and been as passionate about search in the branded mobile side of things for ages.

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MyMobile by AOL

Rating: on device client

by Bena Roberts

So, I had a great demo of the AOL new on device client MyMobile currently in BETA.

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JumpTap serves advertisements on AOL Mobile Search

Rating: scoop!!

by Bena Roberts

I just has three brilliant briefings with AOL - they all deserve their own post but on the AOL Mobile booth there is a JumpTap sign hidden on the bottom of it?

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CTIA: Ballmer keynote liveblog

By Tony Alton
So i arrive 5 minutes late at the biggest CTIA keynote and have to squeeze past the overweight man on the end of the row, treading on his foot and spilling tea in his lap.  Steve Ballmer is already in full flow up on stage and his dictator-like delivery is typically punchy:

He is talking about how cellular networks are the ideal way of making sure software and services are kept as updated as possible whilst on the move.  Thick clients with thin back-ends are the model de jour apparently.  Steve is prophesising that bringing entertainment and enterprise together is a great opportunity for MS.  Enterprise computing like presence, IM, video conferencing and consumer applications like social networking and rich media should all collaborate in the phone apparently. 

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