CTIA: Drinks with Microsoft for the launch of Windows Mobile 6.1 and then I lost my mobile phone, again

Last night was packed with drama and excitement. First of all I had the best interview ever with Derek (I think its Snyder) from Microsoft. I can’t find his name as I left his business card and my mobile phone on the table at the Venus Bar in Caesar’s Palace in Vegas after the interview. 

I [...]

CTIA: Surfkitchen finally gets very very sexy - demo with CTO Dave Evans

I don’t want to keep being nice about companies and I thought when I met Surfkitchen I would be bored and remain unimpressed about the ODP marketplace. It would make for good reading writing that SurfKitchen had gotten it wrong again.

This time, however, after tracking Surfkitchen for years – Dave Evans CTO came up with [...]

Why even UIQ is too difficult

I am a useless female with no idea of mobile devices. I can test you WAP site, create your campaign, get you killer PPC rates. Then I can write and test mobile search that is available online or pre-installed.
Ask me to download anything above and beyond that and I crumble. Today, I downloaded the FlixWagon [...]

CTIA: Garmin upgrades Mobile with new UI and Google Local Search

Garmin has announced to updates at CTIA for its mobile solutions. The first is a new UI for its mobile solution and new Google Local search.

These upgrades will be available on a variety of handsets and platforms including BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. These new features are in addition to a long list of [...]

Chat with Murali Aravamudan founder and CEO of Veveo video mobile search

So I had some questions for Veveo after reading the press release on the vtap feed. I spoke to the company CEO Murali Aravamudan.

Bena: I thought you were a pure mobile search player, what happened?
Murali: When we launched we overestimated the growth and advancement of mobile devices. We thought video would be standard by now [...]

Ilovemobileweb vs supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

The dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) and Bango today announced the successful “ilovemobileweb” (http://www.ilovemobileweb.com) global awareness campaign launched in October 2007 will now be managed, operated and supported by the MAG. 

With the joint announcement, 25 global ilovemobileweb charter members including Bango, the Mobile Marketing Association, the dotMobi company and Winksite are joined by over 100 MAG [...]

Sprint OpenWeb, Content Adaptation and the impact on Mobile Advertising

There is a great post on WAP Review about the Sprint OpenWeb browser. This got me thinking about the transcoding ecosystem. I might be wrong, but I am starting to think that with content adaptation or transcoding, user input is necessary for the manipulation of the content from online to mobile to work.
But first, back [...]

Action Engine ODP (on device portal) for Sports Illustrated

Action Engine and Sports Illustrated (SI) Digital are announcing a subscription-free (ad-subsidized), downloadable mobile application that delivers personalized sports content from Sports Illustrated.com to consumer phones.

To download the MySI Mobile beta version, text “MYSI” to 58585 and receive a text message with a link to download the service or type http://www.mysi.actionengine.com/provision into your phone’s mobile [...]

Is Social Media diluting mobile understanding via unnecessary branding?

Google Gears, Android, oneConnect, onePlace, Yahoo! Go, oneSearch, MSN, Live!, Bluebook, Pikeo…
I could go on stating branded names, but I won’t.

Social media is the rage. Mobile social media is the next step in an evolution. New services that try to make mobile simpler, faster, sleeker and empower the user interface are vital. Yahoo’s OneConnect or OnePlace; [...]

MobiTV releases Mobile TV and Advertising data

Anyone that watches TV on the mobile phone please raise your left hand..
Thank-you.
Now anyone that is a fan of watching TV on the mobile please respond to this blog post.
I dare all of you to prove me wrong about my scepticism on mobile TV.

But, who cares what I think – MobiTV the apparent leader in [...]

Mippin blueapple.mobi transcoding Video RSS

Refresh Mobile and blueapple.mobi Partnership Creates Seamless Video Service Connecting Video in RSS Feeds With Mobile

Video RSS?
Video killed the radio star and Mippin and Blueapple.mobi are eager to dramatically change RSS with flash-based
video content RSS feeds?
Yikes?
Is this possible?
Apparently its achieved by transcoding automatically to the .3gp mobile in real time.
From the press release
Robin Jewsbury, Co-Founder [...]

Skyfire.com very sexy new mobile browser in BETA

Skyfire Mobile Browser looks GREAT At the GoMo News Blender (sponsored by MyStrands) at the Mobile World Congress I met up with Raj Singh. Now, I don’t know Raj that well, but I have met him a few times. So I am not 100% sure with what he does and if he is the owner [...]

MWC: No UIQ for Windows Mobile

Rating: What’s the point? We really like Symbian

With Motorola, Sony Ericsson and UIQ all sitting at the same table here at the MWC, I had to ask the inevitable question, “Is UIQ going to develop for the Windows Mobile environment?”
UIQ CEO Johan Sandberg’s reply summed it all up. “What and get out of the UI [...]

Old folks need better UIs not special designs

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