The Guardian shows it’s really serious about mobile media with iPhone application

The Guardian is one of those newspapers that has always made a great effort when it comes to on-line stories and media. You could rely on the Guardian to spread the word about emerging technologies, online behavior and amusing memes to those who were less likely to encounter them on-line. And now it is moving further towards new media with a brand spanking new iPhone app. How have they done? Pretty damn good.

Waiting for the bandwidth hammer to fall - AT&Ts mobile data threats made simple

This week saw AT&T making some bold announcements concerning flat-rates for mobile data users… and not in the direction that you might want. The high amount of data being consumed by a small segment of the mobile using public has caused AT&Ts head of Wireless, Ralph de la Vega, to make some pretty non-specific threats aimed at high data users.

F5 says it can cure mobile internet bottlenecks

Rating: Side-effect is whole bunch of interesting stats
With mobile data traffic set to grow by as much as 10 to 15 per cent a month, network operators are facing a dilemma. How do they expand capacity? An ideal solution would obviously be cost effective. F5 Networks says that intelligent cacheing is the solution.
The aim [...]

Beware the dangers of free SIM reader software

Rating: All because the original disk doesn’t work
In plenty of circumstances the ability to directly read the contents of a SIM card to a Windows PC is a great boon. Especially if you want to retrieve the  saved phonebook’s entries on the card. Danger lurks, however,  if the software supplied with the SIM card reader [...]

IIR Mobile 2.0 Content & Service Conference Berlin overview

It´s all about service!

Hi, I’m Steph Renda a newbie blogger and CEO of a mobile location social networking for the enterprise business called Match2Blue. I met Bena Roberts from GoMo News earlier this year and asked her to do some blogging as my company moved out of stealth mode, received 2 million in funding and I wanted to showcase how lively and exciting the German market is.

AQA rebrands itself to a number – 63336

Rating: TV ad campaign here we come
GoMo News’ attempts to guess why exactly AQA (All Questions Answered) has rebranded itself as a number (63336) have all proved way off the mark. The real reason has to do with a forthcoming TV advertising campaign, not anything else.
AQA has always painted itself as,  “The world’s first premium [...]

Google mobile updates hit movies and coupons

If you’re working in any area of mobile or on-line services, the presence of Google in your market is as constant as death or taxes. It’s always worth keeping an eye on what it’s up to - and this week Google has advanced its mobile platform in both search and coupons.

MIT adds the MIDAS touch to BBC charity

Rating: Brings in circa £1.75m for Children in Need
If you ever doubted that donating money via SMS/text on a large scale was logistically impossible, then Mobile Interactive Technology (MIT) believes it has disproved this. In less than one month, MIT’s MIDAS platform handled 376,568 mobile interactions. That’s around £1.75 million in donations.
Three companies within the [...]

InfoGin and NexM Partner for goo Mobile Portal

InfoGin has announced that NTT Resonant will deploy its mobile browser IMP following a successful partnership with NexM Communications.

m-ticketing hits the UK Bus route with m-blox and Arriva

Customers across Arriva’s regional bus businesses in England, Scotland and Wales, will be able to buy daily, weekly and four-weekly tickets via their mobile phones following the national launch of Arriva’s m-ticketing service on Tuesday, 17 November. This spans 1,000 routes and 4,500 buses.

never.no teams with the Nobel Peace Centre and More Mobile Relations

Never.no a provider of interactive video and mobile technology has created an exhibit “From King to Obama”. It is on display at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo until April 11, 2010.

Google buys AdMob but what does it mean for mobile and the competition?

Google has a list of purchased conquests on its bedpost. The latest notch is called AdMob – the mobile advertising self-service platform actually making a little bit of money.

We Love Mobile claims first outside Japan

Rating: Rich mobile codes, that is

Mobile advertising agency, We love Mobile, is claiming to be “using rich mobile codes … the first of their kind to be used outside Japan” for a campaign its masterminded for Colombia Records and the band, Passion Pit. Couldn’t see anything particular rich about the ‘Mobile QR’ codes, though.

Mobile to be the driver of social media and PhindMe Mobile is ready with Everywhereigo

Fact:
Facebook revealed that users of the mobile web and mobile application versions of its service grew from 20 million to over 65 million in a little over 6 months.

Local news take heed - AP and Verve are showing how it’s done in mobile

Maybe one of the biggest success stories in publishing news content on mobile is AP Mobile. The mobile channel of the worldwide Associated Press news network, AP Mobile has over 1,000 local news sources on board. The app has been downloaded by over 2.4 million people, and AP claims that over 55 million mobile stories are read each month. Now the company has decided to make some money from the experience it has gained in mobile. In a partnership with Verve Wireless (another giant of local mobile news), the companies will be selling a “white label” mobile application creation service to make mobilizing easier for local news outlets.

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