China will soon dominate local mobile search

Rating: Juniper report predicts 1.3 billion global users
Almost one third (30 per cent) of all mobile subscribers globally will be hooked up to local search by 2013, according to Juniper Research.
That equates to something like 1.3 billion users. Initially the North America and Western Europe will dominate but China will catch up quickly.The report argues [...]

Tyntec Calls For SMS Service Level Agreements

Variable quality levels in SMS stifling enterprise growth
Mobile messaging operator TynTec (www.tyntec.com) today calls for the mobile industry to adopt service level agreements (SLA’s) for enterprise SMS to aid the adoption of the technology in businesses. 

SMS’ growth as a business tool has been stifled by its perceived unreliability and the incapability of traditional SMS providers [...]

UK regulator, PhonePayPlus, toughens regime

Rating: New Panel, new Sanctions Guide
As one of PhonePayPlus’s harshest critics, I was impressed by moves announced today which would move the body towards that panacea - “A more transparent, proportionate and accountable approach to regulation.”One of the benefits from a content provider’s viewpoint is the publication of  an updated ‘Sanctions Guide’.
For example, “It identifies [...]

Michelin Starred WLAN For Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir

Extricom’s Interference-Free™ Wireless LAN System selected for high-end guest services

London, UK – April 28, 2008 – Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s 2 Star Michelin hotel and restaurant and home to the Raymond Blanc Cookery School, has completed the deployment of an Extricom Wireless LAN (WLAN) system, designed to deliver wireless mobility services to [...]

GoMo Update

I have had some flu bug thingy that knocked me for six so I have been told to rest for a while. I am going on holiday for a short while. GoMo News might be a bit quiet - sorry. Rob and Tony are around. But I am going to take it easy.
No Newsletter for the [...]

Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Apple lose global Handset Market share in Q1 2008

Strategy Analytics have released a report on cellphone sales for Q1 2008. According to them “282 million cellphones were shipped worldwide in Q1 2008, up a healthy 14% year-over-year. Demand remained strong in emerging markets, particularly Africa and Asia. Korean vendors LG and Samsung were the star performers, growing 2 to 4 times faster [...]

Skype go beta with Skype for Mobile

Rating: Free skype to skype calls!!!…er no!!!
They Say: Slashphone et all are reporting that Skype have released a beta version of Skype for the mobile generation which apparently works with fifty of the most popular Java handsets from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The feature set which is available worldwide includes: Chat, Group Chat, [...]

Motorola develop mobile movie service

Rating: No porn please were British!
They Say: Motorola are reportedly developing a digital movie retail programme the folks at Fierce Mobile Content are reporting. Motorola aim to offer full length motion pictures reformatted for the handsets makers multimedia services.
The service could be ready to launch as early as may with Paramount Pictures already signed [...]

Operators set up widget lab

Rating: Vodafone, Softbank& China Mobile create the JIL
I was supposed to be participating in a survey covering how UK journalists have interacted with Vodafone. But I dropped out when Vodafone ‘forgot’ to send me the news about the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL).
The JIL is not the first time that Vodafone and China have got together [...]

A week of widgets in the news

Rating: Nokia actually explains what a widget is
This week was very definitely widget week with announcements from both Nokia and three mobile operators who formed the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL). (See separate story).
The Nokia announcement was useful because it did at least explain why a widget would be useful in the first place. What Nokia [...]

Apple & Google to go head to head

Rating: 3G iPhone and T-Mobile Android handset to appear in Q4 2008
The smartphone sector is getting red hot. My favourite rumours are that Apple will show its 3G iPhone on June 9th and T-Mobile will ship handsets based on the Google Android platform during Q4 2008.The T-Mobile news comes courtesy of Joe Sims, vice president [...]

Microsoft completes tender for Fast Search & Transfer

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it has completed settlement of its tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions.  Microsoft’s plans to acquire FAST were originally announced on January 8th.  FAST will operate as a Microsoft subsidiary, with a dedicated enterprise search research and development center in Oslo, Norway, [...]

RedZebra Mobile®™ Helps Put Out WildFire in South Africa’s Cape Town Region

26th April 2008:  Cutting edge mobile phone-based image and GPS technology is helping South Africa’s Cape Town based Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) to identify, tackle and put out fires in the ecologically sensitive Table Mountain National Park region.

The Volunteer Fire Services is utilising Red Zebra Mobile®™ mobile image management technology to take images of wildfires [...]

Easier Access to Web Content on Your Phone

For all of you out there who are addicted to the web but need to be on the go, new services have become available to give you the optimal experience on the web through your cellphone. As phones become more sophisticated, the need to transcode webpages decreases, but for older phones, the service is great.

Sprint [...]

Hot in the US - Mobile Barcodes?

Apparently, Mobile Barcodes aren’t doing so hot in the US. Most people in the United States are completely unaware of their existence unless they happen to be a mobile aficionado. Recently, The New York Times ran an article (link to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/business/media/08adcol.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin) which states that the pilot being run by Mobile Discovery (link to http://www.mobilediscovery.com) is [...]

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