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AdMob iPhone 3G Advertising and developer incentive

AdMob has raised the bar on mobile advertising with its new iPhone 3G Advertising Solutions. Finally we get banner ads and a nice interface and high quality brands. What a change from the text ads that I started to test a year ago.
Is this AdMob’s puberty?

Yes. I think that it is. It is out of [...]

Orange Rob Lowe Ad and GoMo News today

I am giving a workshop today in Reading and them am meeting some mobile advertising types at The Hospital in London this evening. Rob has just moved home and is stuck without WiFi and phone and is having a terrible time.

So today will be a slow news day. I will try and blog as an [...]

Can this be true? Bango first to offer both Site and Campaign mobile analytics

NO WAY? Bango offers site campaign mobile analytics
Now I read this press release and I didn’t believe it. As you know I have been in mobile for a long time and the problem is the cookies. It is easy to monitor mobile analytics –but not for individual or unique users.

The implications of being able to [...]

Find & Go from Vodafone, Telmap and Multimap

Now, I thought that Vodafone already had a mobile mapping service –but this must be something new. Apparently Vodafone UK has teamed with Telmap and Multimap and a new service called Find & Go has been born.

Find & Go also is giving me some kind of déjàvu from something or another.
So what is this?
It is [...]

Independent Clarification on Patent Laws

OK. So I am on so-called holiday but I managed to make a few vital phone calls while watching Wall-e at Vue in Harrow this morning.
It is relating to the USPTO. I didn’t get hold of NeoMedia (time difference) but I did get hold of a Lawyer who understands the barcode law.

So – I can’t [...]

Just call me President!

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, [...]

ABPHONE SIGNS ADVERTISING DEAL WITH ZESTADZ MOBILE ADVERTISING COMPANY

Abphone  the multimedia mobile search engine has signed  a new agreement with ZestADZ,  mobile ad network in India. This deal with Zestadz will help abphone increase its wareness with advertisers and brands, and will leverage their notoriety among Indian mobile users in the second largest mobile market in the world.

Abphone has decided to strategically invest [...]

Jailbroken iPhone 3G – world first

Well that didn’t take long did it!! Engadgetmobile have a piece on the iPhone Dev Team (nothing to do with Apple) who have added a video to their blog showing off the latest version of their upcoming PwnageTool 2.0, along with a video of what they claim is the “world’s first” jailbroken iPhone 3G. The [...]

Twitter buys Summize

Yikes. I found Summize via Twitter from finding links from interesting people. I then discovered Techmeme – I didn’t really like it in the beginning as I wasn’t sure how it worked – so then I signed up for the Twitter Techmeme feed and now I read it daily.

Holy Smokes – Twitter buys Summize and I [...]

Bena throws iPhone out of the window

Yikes. I arrive at the airport in Germany and realise that when I synched my phone I forgot the phone numbers and only have 500 email addresses.
It gets worse.

Get to Ireland and phone disables itself. I keep trying to access and it keeps saying “try again in one hour”.
I freak out as all my data [...]

SnapNow Demo Exclusive – Right here, Right now!

SnapNow is today launching its mobile image recognition technology in the UK and we thought you would like an exclusive opportunity to try it. SnapNow essentially allows consumers to take a picture on a cameraphone, send it to SnapNow via MMS or mobile email, and immediately be linked to a pre-determined mobile webpage.
TRY IT NOW!!!!
Take [...]

Aage Reersleve CEO of Squace – A letter!

There was me casually going through my post at the weekend when I opened a letter from Aage Reersleve CEO of Squace! Yes a letter, not email – a letter!! Yes, I am impressed!I tested Squace a few weeks back and although I thought the idea was a great one, and still do, some of [...]

TELECOM ITALIA: 16,000 iPHONES SOLD IN EARLY TRADING AT TIM STORES

Holy Smokes Batman!

Telecom Italia reports impressive figures from the first day of iPhone sales, as the company retailed more than 16,000 iPhones during early trading at its stores. Around 70% of initial sales were of the 16GB phone.
A TIM customer in Mestre was the first in Italy to acquire the futuristic iPhone. TIM stores in [...]

Apple release iPhone configuration utilities for business

If your one of those early adopters and want to use your iPhone in an enterprise solution Apple have released two web based software configuration utilities, iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 for Mac and iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 for Windows to help you or your IT Department.
From the web site:
iPhone Configuration Web Utility lets [...]

Orange BIC Razor Sharp phone?

I got a press release from Orange and it was for a new brand BIC.  I was laughing to myself thinking how stupid Orange was naming a phone after a throw away razor.

You can image my surprise when – SHRIEK – it is the razor company behind it and this is the new ready to [...]