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Cannes Mobile Day – Deconstructing Mobile
[ June 19, 2012; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Cannes Mobile Day Speaking Panel – Deconstructing Mobile @ 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
June 19th 2012 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm
Cannes, France
www.canneslions.com
As the consumer communications landscape continues to be dominated by mobile devices, mobile marketing is predicted to be one of the highest growth media platforms to ever exist. Hear from mobile marketing leaders on their vision for how the mobile channel will evolve in the next 3-5 years and what this means for marketers. Also discover ways to navigate this complicated and diverse ecosystem to best leverage the power of the channel. Continue reading
Guest Post: The implications of overlooking a solid mobile strategy
by Rob Jonas, md (EME) with InMobi
Facebook’s warned yesterday [10th may 2012] investors that the rapid growth of its mobile apps will threaten its long term financial prospects because its mobile advertising strategy lags behind consumer uptake. With the rapid rate of pace in the technology world, mobile is the platform or environment of choice for companies looking to launch a new product or service. Continue reading
Apps World Europe 2012
[ October 2, 2012 10:00 am to October 3, 2012 6:00 pm. ] Earl’s Court 2
London, UK
2nd-3rd October 2012
www.apps-world.net/europe
Now in its third year, Apps World has grown to be one of the leading global multi-platform events in the mobile industry, and this year’s Earl’s Court 2 event is set to be the biggest yet. With over 5,000 developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals expected for two days of high level insight and discussion. With 10 targeted workshop tracks, speed meeting, 1-1 meetings, parties, and awards, the event will be tackling a spectrum of issues across the app ecosystem. Continue reading
Guest Post: Thorsten Heins takes RIM by the Reigns as new CEO
Technology journalist, Alysa Jeff, takes you back over the BlackBerry maker’s recent history
Mike Lazaridis, who founded the firm back in 1984, served as the CEO of BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM), until very recently with the co-chief, Jim Balsillie. The two were heading the firm; however, as of now both Lazaridis and Balsillie have quit, and forwarded Thorsten Heins to take charge of their position as the firm’s chief. Prior to the departure of Lazaridis and Balsillie, RIM was experiencing some turbulence as it faced some serious competition. The maker of the BlackBerry recently underwent a phase where it was unable to provide even its services. Continue reading
Mobile advertising sees tremendous growth says BuzzCity
Rating: Market in UK grew by 157% in 1 year
The latest quarterly (Q1 2012) report from BuzzCity which tracks performance across its own global mobile advertising network has come in with impressive figures for market expansion. The UK showed strong growth during Q1 2012 with 23 per cent but over the year it grew by a commendable 157 per cent. Significantly, the number of smartphones active on the BuzzCity network has also grown. Smartphones now account for more than 32 per cent of phones that are served ads across the BuzzCity mobile ad network. Out of these, handsets from Apple, BlackBerry, Samsung and HTC continued to grow. RIM’s BlackBerry continues to make a strong showing despite its bad Press. Continue reading
Lookout builds on its tie-up with T-Mobile in Europe
Rating: Hoping to make millions of mobile users feel safer
Lookout has announced a major alliance with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom to deliver its Lookout Mobile Security app to Deutsche Telekom’s European customers. The partnership will focus on distribution and joint innovation, aiming to bring mobile security and increased device health to Telekom’s millions of European customers. Deutsche Telekom (through T-Mobile) already provides an optimised network including security, privacy and other critical device controls. By partnering with Lookout, Deutsche Telekom makes it easier for its customers to secure their devices; better manage their mobile privacy and device performance. Lookout has already seen its Android app pre-loaded on several of T-Mobile’s Android handsets including the Samsung Galaxy Blaze 4G in the USA. Continue reading
Guest Post: What’s The Best Way To Recycle Blackberry Phones?
GoMo News welcomes HelloTotem on the best way to recycle smartphones
When mobile (cell) phones first hit the market back in the 1990s they were big, expensive, heavy and only ever used by businessmen with more money than sense. Then as time and technology progressed the phones became smaller, cheaper and found their niche in the mass market. They had reached their tipping point where everyone could now afford a mobile phone so that made everyone want their own mobile phone. But things got a bit crazy and people wound up owning two or three BlackBerries because they had pictures on one they didn’t want to lose and then phone numbers on another one they wanted to keep. Our society struggles to dispose of things that we no longer really need. It’s like some weird electronic hoarder complex. Continue reading
Nokia and Sony suffering from Ice Age meltdown says Cass
Rating: Both were innovators next-gerarius
This week [April 2012] two former giants in the consumer electronics business – Sony and Nokia, have made announcements which indicate that all is far from being OK. Lots of people ask themselves the question – why have the might fallen? But Ajay Bhalla, a professor of global innovation management at the Cass business school has bravely tried to provide us with some sort of answers. After all, who would have thought a mere two years back that both Nokia and Sony would lose their respective mantles in the consumer electronics space? The curious thing is that neither company stopped trying to innovate. But somehow both have obviously manged to lose their focus. Continue reading
Web based surveillance system to become more mobile-centric
Rating: Jordan’s UBA invests in UK’s Jabbakam
Given that mobile web users are expected to exceed desktop internet users by 2015, a leading mobile social media applications geared to Arab consumers – UBA, is helping to make an existing web-based surveillance system more mobile-aware. To this end, Jordan’s UBA has acquired a 20 per stake in UK-based Jabbakam Continue reading
NeoMedia sues SpyderLynx as scanning figures rise
Rating: W7 Mango users bottom of scanning list
As mobile barcode scanning expert, NeoMedia Technologies, announced its performance figures for Q1 2012, the company also let slip that it had started another law suit over its patent portfolio. This time the supplier on the wrong end of NeoMedia’s lawyers is SpyderLynx. That’s interesting because SpyderLynx itself is trying to patent the use of embedding a log into a QR code. See our previous story here. For the lawyers amongst our readership, we decided to publish NeoMedia’s Press release on the who legal action bit here. Meanwhile, NeoMedia is staking its claim to be the leading purveyor of QR code scanning software. It says that 20 million handsets use its NeoReader barcode scanning service worldwide (representing 227 countries). Significantly, Android smartphones account for the majority use of the NeoReader app and 56 per cent of all scans. Continue reading
MACH Insights 2012
[ June 4, 2012 9:00 am to June 6, 2012 6:00 pm. ] Mach Insights 2012
June 4th-6th 2012
Prague
Czech Republic
MACH, the leading provider of hub-based mobile communication solutions, is holding its annual Insights conference in Pragueon June 4th-6th 2012. MACH Insights is recognized within the industry as a leading conference in the mobile calendar. Providing in-depth coverage of roaming topics, the conference also covers Interconnect, Mobile Messaging, and Direct Operator Billing. The three day event is designed for mobile operators, service providers, handset manufacturers, and content providers and usually attracts around 100 industry luminaries. Continue reading
Guest Post from Robin Kent, director of operations with Adax Europe – Monetising the Data Pipe
As mobile network operators move to tackle the expensive shift to LTE/4G and All-IP networks, Adax‘s Robin Kent looks at how operators can still make money from the data pipe
According to a recent report published by Gartner, smartphone sales in 2011 were up 58 per cent from 2010. With iPad and tablet sales predicted for similar growth, the result is a seemingly insatiable demand for data-centric and mobile video applications that is putting incredible stress on mobile networks. In effect, we are experiencing an explosion of mobile data traffic. Continue reading
Another update for Indian Nokia N73 owners
Rating: Nokia not seeing this level of enquiries itself
As Alice said, “Curiouser and curiouser.” Here at GoMobile Towers we are still experiencing a high level of enquiries about an OS upgrade for the Nokia N73 – the majority of which are stemming from India. To date we’ve had over 40 enquiries and those are just the ones which are printable. GoMobile News checked directly with Nokia about this situation. The company replied, “We have to agree with you that the number of responses makes this rather an odd one as we are not seeing this in our own enquiry channels.” In a nutshell, our advice is now this … 1) There is no advantage in trying to install the European upgrade we originally mentioned and 2) It wouldn’t work with Nokia N73s produced for the Indian market, anyway. BUT we may has spotted a general problem experienced by Nokia N73 owners in general trying to upgrade the OS. Continue reading
SANS claims first ever survey to assess mobility risk
Rating: The dangers of BOYD will be exposed
On April 12th [2012] SANS Institute will be releasing the results to its first annual survey on mobility security. The organisation is planning to release full results and a link to a copy of the report during a webcast on that date. The survey was actually launched back in December [2011], and claims to be the first ever mobility survey to discover if and how organizations are managing risk around their end user mobile devices. What SANS has already discovered is that only 9 per cent of organisations surveyed felt they were fully aware of the devices accessing corporate resources. Additionally, half felt only vaguely or fairly aware of the mobile devices accessing their resources. Continue reading
