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Forget barcodes, patent war about to erupt in mobile search discovery input market

Published on Tuesday, August 26th by Bena Roberts

OMG. I have just been contacted by a reader of a Yahoo! News and investor board on Nuance asking me about the patent litigation put on Zi from Nuance?

I didn’t know anything about it and saw a RSS post on moconews. So, I have been doing some digging.
http://www.zicorp.com/prs/Nuance200808.pdf
What we think?
Hmmm. This is very strange. You [...]

Federated Mobile Search Medio Verizon and Google

Published on Monday, August 25th by Bena Roberts

I just read through notes of an interview I had with Brian Lent from Medio (CEO) earlier this year.  Also with an phone interview I had with Michael Libes (Co-Founder) on Federated Mobile Search in December last year.

Something else dawned on me. I knew about this deal and the introduction of Verizon has been in [...]

Mobile Search: Verizon Google? Has the world gone mad?

Published on Friday, August 22nd by Bena Roberts

I read a few comments and articles on the rumour that Verizon and Google will partner for mobile search.  I think it was the Wall Street Journal newspaper that said Mobile Search is anaemic?

So what is the rumour?
That Verizon and Google are about to secure a deal for mobile search services in the US.  OK, [...]

Great Mobile Search Marketing from Yahoo! Mobile on the iPhone

Published on Friday, August 22nd by Bena Roberts

Have to say, I got this in my email and I was hooked. What great clear, simple instant marketing for Yahoo! Mobile Search on the iPhone. No downloads no applications very simple instructions and it just looks good.
I am saying this as suddenly all my problems with reading Yahoo! on the iPhone have gone. I [...]

Yellow Pages launches mobile search for Kiwis

Published on Wednesday, August 20th by Bena Roberts

The Yellow Pages Group in New Zealand has launched its local mobile search product based on mobilePeople’s liquid LOCAL solution. The new mobile search will allow Kiwis using their mobile service to access local information on their mobile phones – via browser and/or two way SMS.
What does it do?
The browser based solution allows search by [...]

Nuance continues Mafia style purchase tactics

Published on Saturday, August 16th by Bena Roberts

Now, I mentioned in detail last year that Nuance bought out all of the competition in the voice search business (bar a few).  It purchased Be Vocal and Voice Signal and then T9 from AOL.

It has failed to make a success of T9 and what happened to XT9 – it was fab?  But the marketing [...]

Sprint Mobile Internet Sprint Web

Published on Monday, July 28th by Bena Roberts

Sprint has launched Sprint Web.
What is it?

It is an adaptive home page that delivers content based on customers use with a search from Google.
From the press release
“Sprint customers have always been able to access the Internet on data-capable Sprint phones, and with Sprint Web we’ve made it even easier for them to quickly find the [...]

Boopsie Mobile Search partners with ARTISTdirect

Published on Monday, July 28th by Bena Roberts

ARTISTdirect, Inc. (www.artistdirect.com) has signed an agreement with Boopsie, Inc., a mobile search player to create ARTISTdirect-branded mobile channels on the Boopsie Mobile Platform.

What is Boopsie?
It is is an ODP search engine that finds things FAST. Keystrokes are vital (they need to be very few) to get relevant results.
What is ARTISTdirect?
It sounds as htough its [...]

Lunch with Steve Ives and Bob Last Taptu

Published on Monday, July 28th by Bena Roberts

I met Taptu founder Steve Ives and SVP Bob Last for lunch at Browns in SoHo. I wanted to squeeze Taptu because even though I liked the last release of the search service – I didn’t understand the concept of Taptu and what the future was for the company.

So I met Steve and Bob with [...]

Taptu: Alpha Beta Gamma

Published on Monday, July 28th by Bena Roberts

Mobile Search, as we all know is a rapidly evolving technology. What we don’t know is what the future of mobile search will be.
On Friday, I met with Taptu. Taptu is the brand of a mobile search engine. You can test it at www.taptu.com

SMX Expo: Blended Search in a Mobile World

Published on Friday, July 25th by admin

Blended search for mobile is a very complex topic that involves looking for web results, local results, mobile content, and mobile services, not necessarily in that order. This panel tried to open the conversation about understand the different search types.
One trend the panel noted was that search on a mobile phone is becoming a necessity [...]

Just call me President!

Published on Friday, July 18th by Bena Roberts

OK. Finally after weeks of wanting to burst into tears and pretend I was at the Oscars – I can announce that I have my foot back in the corporate world.
What does that mean?

Well basically, I have been in Mobile Search since 2004. I founded GoMo News in 2007. But have continued to work design, [...]

Mobango Mobile Gets an Update

Published on Thursday, July 17th by admin

Mobango announced today that they have made improvements to their search criteria as well as making it easier to delete files.

Via Newsletter:

You can now search files by categories and order search results by “Last Uploaded”, “Top Rated”, “Most Viewed”, and with the new previews of the files you can find the content you like a [...]

Thrrum MMS Search for T-Mobile and Verizon

Published on Thursday, July 17th by Bena Roberts

Yikes – here is me slating MMS based visual mobile search and both Verizon and T-Mobile in the US sign up for it?
Have I missed the plot or what?

I thought about this for a while and what I think is that the US market has been late to develop in messaging – but messaging is [...]

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