OgilvyOne and TM Forum to Unlock Advertising Value Chain for Service Providers

MORRISTOWN, NJ - TM Forum and OgilvyOne announced today their first step towards jointly unlocking new revenue growth opportunities for communications service providers and advertisers. OgilvyOne will support the first TM Forum Digital Commerce and Advertising Summit, one of three new summits to be delivered at the Management World Orlando conference, November 16-20, 2008. The [...]

Mobile Analytics: Chat with Greg Harris CEO Mobilytics

Now, I was quite nervous talking to Greg Harris (CEO Mobilytics) yesterday, as he is also a blogger and “we bloggers” can be quite difficult sometimes.
But to my surprise we had a lovely conversation and Greg (a man with many hats) has a very well spoken clear voice which sounds a bit like a [...]

Chat with Mayur Pitamber Openwave Product Manager Mobile Analytics

I had a delightful phone call with Mayur Pitamber Product Management Strategist at Openwave yesterday – here is an over view on our discussion on Openwave Mobile Analytics.
Bena: Hi Mayur. Openwave has many hats what is the best way to describe the company?

Mayur : Sure. I would say a leading vendor of mobile software with [...]

MDA to look harder at mobile web

Rating: Meanwhile somebody’s actually using MMS
The Mobile Data Association (MDA)– a body which tries to represent the major UK mobile networks – came out with statistics today which prove that people are actually using MMS. It’s now got to figure out a way of monitoring mobile web usage.

Apparently Brits now send almost 1.5 million MMS [...]

Broadband Genie UK Comparison website

Broadband Genie has re-designed its UK mobile broadband comparison website, which allows consumers to compare accurate prices and information for all the mobile broadband networks and provides an independent, unbiased source of information on the fast growing UK mobile broadband market. The site also allows consumers to read and submit reviews and provides up-to-date data [...]

Briefing with Michael Stone CEO Mobile Analytics firm Amethon

So, when I announced that I was going to interview Michael Stone from Amethon – a friend of mine Camilo Sabogal from Telefonica Spain asked me to ask him a few questions on his behalf. So my questions are first Michael (voice an email conversation) with Camilo’s questions second.
 
Bena: HI Michael, can you give me [...]

TravellingWave bundles VoicePredict Speech-to-Text with ZiCorp’s eZiText and eZiType

This is great news for multi modal mobile voice company TravellingWave!  I met them about a year ago and had a great demonstration (nothing worked) but the vision and feel and outline of a new experience was there.

One year on they are integrated into ZiCorp a small business taking on Nuance and making a better [...]

Vodafone acquires additional 4.8% stake in Polkomtel, Poland

Vodafone announces today that it has agreed to acquire an additional 4.8% stake in Polkomtel S.A. (”Polkomtel”), a leading telecommunications operator in Poland, from TDC A/S (”TDC”) for a total cash consideration of 176 million plus accrued interest at closing.

The acquisition will increase Vodafone’s stake in Polkomtel from 19.6% to 24.4%, enhancing its exposure to [...]

Vodafone’s mobile broadband ads were misleading

Rating: ASA says, “Guilty M’lLord.”
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has just found Vodafone guilty of misleading adverts for its mobile broadband service on three counts. It just got a smacked wrist, however.The adjudication followed complaints raised by two other UK operators – 3 UK and T-Mobile – over the use of the words, “The fastest, [...]

Smut and gambling still powering mobile advertising

Rating: purveyor of ‘adult’ mob ads has best ever month
Never mind the economic downturn one mobile internet ad network, Admoda , has just revealed that October 2008 was its biggest month ever. Adultmoda – offering mobile ads for over-18s – contributed to this.
The company claims that Adultmoda “has also seen month by month growth and [...]

Symbian navigation app hits India via SatNav

Rating: Intrinsyc Destinator software for Symbian
 Canadian software house, Intrinsyc, has struck a deal to distribute the latest version of its Destinator satellite navigation software through India via SatNav Technologies.
The latest version runs on Symbian smartphones and, according to Souheil Gallouzi, general manager for mobile products with Intrinsyc, “Destinator software now works across all the major [...]

Truphone launches low-priced international call service for BlackBerry® smartphones

October 28th 2008 – London, UK - Global mobile network operator
Truphone today launched a beta of its mobile internet telephony service, Truphone Anywhere, for BlackBerry® smartphones
 

. Truphone Anywhere brings simple, easy and cheap international calling to up to 40 million BlackBerry users across the world.Truphone Anywhere works in 33 countries worldwide. It saves BlackBerry [...]

Openwave Collaborates With Alcatel-Lucent To Deliver Integrated Service Management Solutions For Service Providers

 
 Industry Leaders Join Forces to Create a Software and Service Solution to Monetize Mobile and Broadband Data Services
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 28, 2008
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), one of the world’s leading software innovators enabling revenue-generating personalized services to converge the mobile and broadband experience, today announced a joint collaboration to create pre-configured software solutions [...]

Push email for the masses from Synchronica

Rating: Billions of handsets can now receive ‘push’ emails
If your handset has a screen, then it can now receive ‘push’ email. That’s the promise with SimpleMail from Synchronica. It’s formally launched afterthe company’s recent AxisMobile acquisition.
The combination of the two companies’ technology really does mean that you can receive email pushed down to even the most [...]

Mobile search still isn’t on the popular radar screen

Rating: Sunday tech piece entirely neglects the mobile internet
Getting the mobile internet into everyone’s consciousness obviously still has a long way to go. Under catch-all phrase of  ‘websites search engine optimisation’, there was an article over the last weekend which virtually entirely ignored the mobile/cellular world.
And there I was hoping to learn something. But no [...]

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