Nokia/Symbian - Enough Hype!

Well that got your attention didn’t it! Don’t get me wrong, I think the announcement yesterday was good news. Symbian has needed to go Open Source for a while.
For one reason it can be a real pain to programme for. I know. I have hired developers, and good ones to do it and everything about [...]

Zinadoo adds new video feature for mobile websites

Zinadoo, the provider of three of my eight mobile sites has added a new video feature. In about three clicks users can add instant video from YouTube to the mobile site.
What we think?
I love it. I will add some video to my http://gomo.zinadoo.mobi website later on.

T-Mobile Austria MyFaves on a unified subscriber database

T-Mobile Austria has implemented the Nokia Siemens Networks’ data management solution for its customer care strategy.
T-Mobile Austria is offering new personalized services, such as “MyFaves” social networking, to its customers and enjoying reduced network complexity and maintenance thanks to a single, consolidated database platform from Nokia Siemens Networks.
 
 
The replacement of a number of separate databases [...]

Jonathan MacDonald from Blyk to OgilvyOne

Jonathan MacDonald (Senior Consultant Ogilvy) is a larger than life character. He is opinionated, talkative, fun and best of all very very nice. He is the guy that you would like to invite to a party and is pretty switched on about mobile advertising too.
I was going to compliment him on being a male version [...]

Charter agree to stop deployment of NebuAd - for now

In a decision that could affect the future ad revenue models for both the web and mobile Charter Communications, the US Cable company has suspended it’s NebuAd powered ad program over concerns for users privacy.
The plan had received a lot of attention from privacy groups. Both Free Press and Public Knowledge have run campaigns to [...]

MVNO Blyk new advertiser Pot Noodle

Mindshare has created a new advertising campaign with mobile element for Pot Noodle. For those of you who don’t know: Pot Noodle is an English tradition. At University, I was unfortunate enough to share a house with not one, not two but three men (Simon Wright, Tall Paul, Beer Mat Paul – I am sure [...]

Virgin Mobile USA buys 200,000 users

According to the Financial Times Virgin Mobile USA is set to buy Helio, the US mobile business of South Korean Communications company SK Telecom.
The 200,000 pay monthly customers with Helio will be merged into Virgin’s 5.1 million Pay as You Go Customers and the Helio brand dissolved.
SK Telecom will also invest a nominal sum [...]

Mobile Advertising Claire Valoti MindShare Interactive Advertising Agency

I have been to several events where MindShare has presented, but always managed to have another meeting at the same time. So this was the first time I had seen the Agencies assault on mobile.
I have to say, I thought that it was realistic and interesting. First of all, Claire Valoti stated that her major [...]

Twitter funding and Google says Android is not delayed

Two articles from moconews this morning. Both on topics that might be interesting to our readers, but I don’t specifically write upon.  Twitter funding and Google says Android is not delayed.

Tricia Duryee writes: Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android platform is probably on time—that is, if you define “during the second-half of this year” as the very [...]

Symbian transformation to Open will take time

Rating: Legal and technical hurdles to overcome
The momentous news that Nokia intends to help transform Symbian into an open source OS has taken most observers – and plenty of affected employees, too – completely by surprise.
However, the open source code for the Symbian Foundation won’t be appearing on user group sites tomorrow.
It’s going to take [...]

O2 Bluebook Advertising

When O2 first launched BlueBook its mobile social network storage service for “saving memories” - I jested.

But several people mentioned the O2 Bluebook campaign at the Mobile Advertising conference and pointed it out as being exceptional.
So, I finally took a look and you know what - I liked it.
Watch here: O2 Bluebook (with the right link [...]

Sprint Business Premier Loyalty Program

US operator Sprint announces a new Business Premier customer loyalty program for medium-sized business customers.

After being automatically enrolled, small and medium-sized business customers receive benefits such as:
    –  Anniversary Rewards: Special recognition and rewards for
        customers on their service anniversary with Sprint, a unique
        loyalty initiative within the wireless industry.
    –  Device Select: Discounts on [...]

Virgin Mobile USA launches New Totally Unlimited for USD 79.99

No contract.  No credit card required! Virgin Mobile USA has gone mad and launched a new “unlimited nationwide” tariff for USD 79.99. This is about GBP 40.

From the press release
“’Totally Unlimited’ for 79.99 per month is simply a better value than postpaid plans offer,” said Bob Stohrer, Chief Marketing Officer of Virgin Mobile USA . [...]

Telecom Italia to launch iPhone 3G on prepaid

From July 11, the iPhone 3G will be available in over 2,600 TIM retail outlets. For prepaid customers the 8GB iPhone 3G device will be available for EUR 499. The 16GB model will be EUR 569.

For contract customers the 8GB iPhone 3G will be a subscription ranging from free to EUR 199 – depending on [...]

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