The Beeb criticises device fragmentation

Rating: Ovum’s Cripps warns of the dangers
While GoMo News poked fun at the BBC for the wisdom of launching a mobile app aimed at soccer fans first on Apple iPhones (not exactly the handset of choice for footie afficionados), it seems that the broadcaster isn’t as thick-skinned as some might assume.
The Beeb [BBC] launched an [...]

BBC’s first iPhone sports app from Mobile IQ

Rating: Mobile IQ says, “Hey Beeb gizajob, we can do iPhone”
In a competitive pitch involving over 20 mobile application vendors, Mobile IQ was chosen to create the first official sports/events iPhone apps for the BBC. This will be particularly good news for Formula One loving iPhone owners.
Mobile IQ says that the Beeb’s selection criteria hinged [...]

Rok launches free UK TV for phones

Rating: Watch the Beeb for free without iPlayer
Those guys at Rok never give up,do they? Now the firm has launched Rok TV UK as free download to UK viewers, although it is still in beta version.
ROK TV uses the company’s purpose-built media player to allow moving video to play on virtually any mobile phone’s screen. [...]

BBC Radio 1 team-up with The Mobile Data Association to give listeners free picture messaging day

For the first time, BBC Radio 1 listeners will be able to send the radio station free picture messages from their mobile phones, as part of the ‘Access All Areas’ week, which will give unprecedented access to what goes on at the world famous radio station via http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 .
On Friday 11th December 2009, listeners in [...]

UK youth offered free MMS for 1 day

Rating: The BBC to benefit from major mobile user-generated content
Not content with getting its news footage for free from an unsuspecting British populace, the UK’s publicly funded media company - the BBC – has decided to sucker more kids into using their mobile phones to send in pictures/videos via MMS.
No fewer than seven leading UK-based [...]

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 [...]

BBC and We Love Mobile aim for “first time” mobile search

When the BBC decided to create a bespoke mobile search service for it’s mobile site, it hired on mobile design and marketing agency We Love Mobile. They have now completed the design for the BBCs new mobile search - with the focus being squarely on getting the right result on the first search.

Top reading links for Michael Jackson, his death and technology news

Here is a collection of interesting Sunday reading on Michael Jackson’s death and its impact on technology. From Twitter to the British government to Google collapsing.

Another mobile TV show aimed at teens, this time from the BBC

BBC Switch, the broadcasters teen brand, is releasing an interactive TV drama in a major mobile trial.  “Proper Messy” will be broadcast over the mobile web, as well as Bebo and BBC 2.
The series will be interactive through mobile texts, with the BBC wanting 5,000 teens to sign up for the service. Subscribers will receive [...]

BBC World Service and Sony Ericsson to use mobile devices for teaching in India

The BBC World Service Trust and Sony Ericsson are developing English-language learning tools for mobile phones in Bangladesh. The Trust, which uses the media to reduce poverty and promote human rights, has recognized that mobiles will play a key role in India.
Ericsson will be handling most of the work for the BBC. It will [...]

GoMo News on the BBC!

Last week I was interviewed by the BBC for BBC 4 Radio. Now. You are talking to a girl with a degree in Media Studies and I have to say - I was chuffed!  I love the BBC and for the BBC to find GoMo News!! Well my head has grown three sizes.  The interview [...]

toothing? Bluetooth naughty message SPAM?

I wrote this article a few months ago: http://www.gomonews.com/bluetooth-sex-messages-on-a-train-only-in-london/
It was about me getting some SPAM via Bluetooth. Today, I received an email from (wait for it) The BBC! Yes. The BBC has found GoMo News and researchers wanted to interview me on this for Radio 4.
Link to most recent blog post: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/08/bluetooth_sex_messages_on_trai.shtml

Yikes!  But anyway; since I [...]

Mission impossible: watch the racing live on a handset

Rating: Or how the Beeb defeated my attempts to do so
One of the UK’s major sporting and social events is the Grand National horse race which takes place today [5th April] in Aintree. So I set myself the task of trying to discover if I could watch the race live on a mobile phone.
In theory [...]

Yahoo! Facebook

Rating: we love the BBC!
So Yahoo! has had yet another re-organization and Semel is still the top dog. But what about all the Facebook rumours? Well all has been revealed by the BBC this morning. There was a huge interview and piece on the rise and rise of Facebook.
Apparently Facebook turned down the USD 1 [...]

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