Mobile Search Analyst July 2007

Part 3: Idle Screen Analysis: Celltick deployments vs rest of world
The idle screen has taken centre stage in 2007. There are approaching ten different, commercial deployments in western Europe (see Idle Screen part 1 in the May issue), but arguably the real action is in Russia and Asian countries, where Celltick has carved a sizeable niche for itself…………

Purple Ace: innovative recommendation that is way ahead of the market
There was a lot of hype in 2005 around recommendation strategies and Purple Ace was seen as an important player. Its product portfolio consists of the Discover 2.0 solution, which was built on a proprietary Clustered Hybrid Collaborative Prediction (CHCP) technology.

InfoSpace re-launches itself with mCore
InfoSpace has revamped itself and at the heart of the transformation is mCore, its new platform for delivering portal, storefront, search, messaging and managed web services to operators. In June InfoSpace extended its relationship with Virgin Mobile UK and Verizon in the US. Virgin Mobile uses InfoSpace’s unified platform of services including search. Verizon, on the other hand, uses InfoSpace’s portal and storefront services, but not its search function.

Is Fastsearch and Transfer stuck in mobile’s slow lane?
Mike Brady, senior director, business development, with Fast Search & Transfer explains new development and why mobile is only part of a much bigger picture to BKI Media’s Annie Turner….

Nuance takes the mobile voice control market by storm
BKI Media has been watching Nuance closely for the past year and the vendor is making strategic decisions in mobile with the intention of becoming the de facto leader in more than just voice search. Nuance’s aim is to dominate in multi-modal technologies and services. Its recent acquisition of Tegic brings text input to the party and adds to the acquisition frenzy that has seen Nuance engulf VoiceSignal, BeVocal and Mobile Voice Control….

Federated Mobile Search Part Three: MobilePeople
BKI Media’s initial impression of mobilePeople was that it is a very small player, focused primarily on local search. The company has other ideas, arguing that it is a full, white label search player, specialising in the media and directory market. mobilePeople boasts “over nine” deployments in this field, most notably Yell.com in the UK, Sensis in Australia and the media/news agency Schibsted in Norway….

GoMo News
Lunch with Orange and Abaxia,Breakfast with 3,MCN-Inc and Tribeworks/ Atlas Technology sign agreement,YFonGlobal gets wynd behind it for social network with click-to-call

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