Conference aims at monetising mobile

Rating:  Struggling against free apps and a nascent advertising ecosystem?
The title is enticing -  Monetising Mobile: How To Make Apps Pay Their Way. It’s a subject close to all our hearts and it’s a new conference being put together as we speak by the publication, Mobile Entertainment (ME) for May 2010.
The folks at ME [...]

Boost given to mobile apps at Olympics by Ofcom

Rating: UK regulator promises extra spectrum for 2012 games
Anticipating that the advent of London 2012 Games will give rise to thousands of wireless applications, UK regulator – Ofcom - has set out plans for making extra spectrum available.

Besides the fact that professionals and consumers will want to use the regular cellular and PMRN [Private Mobile [...]

Recycle for London uses mobile gaming to boost recycling

Recycle for London is today launching a mobile game to encourage Londoners to recycle more. The game from Incentivated teaches players what they can and can’t recycle. It’s  available as a Java app, and iPhone users can download it from the Apple Store.

By texting BIN to 62967 players receive a link to a mobile web [...]

OMG where is the Wifi in London and UpCode part 1

So, what a day!  I woke up at 4am to get the on the 6.25 flight to the UK from Frankfurt.  I just made as after a huge party last night (my son turned 5) everything was a blur.
But I remained unphased. I was confident that I would be able to blog the minute I [...]

Mobile SEO plus drinks!

I will be in London on September 22nd as I will be attending the Mobile Web Europe event. Would anyone like to meet up in the evening for drinks and a chat on Mobile SEO? 
If I get a lot of interest I have access to some London offices if not - then it you and [...]

Next Mobile Advertising Workshops San Francisco and London

Thank-you to Yorkville Advisors who are letting me host the next advertising workshop at their offices in Mayfair. I am thinking of September. If you are interested - please let me know as there is only space for 6.
The next workshop will be in August in San Francisco. We are thinking about August 12, 2008. [...]

Mobile Advertising and Mobile SEO Workshop

I have had several calls recently about our workshops. The one most requested is on Mobile SEO and Mobile Advertising. So I thought I might find out about anyone interested in attending a class on How to effectively implement a mobile advertising campaign?  This will be followed by a tutorial on Mobile Meta tags, mobile [...]

Technosummits announces Broadband Connect Summit 2008

An industry summit in London will provide a unique forum to discuss some of the critical issues facing media companies and network operators as a result of new online and mobile broadband services.

The focus of the second annual Broadband Connect Summit is “Enabling fixed and wireless networks for broadband media services”. The conference will include [...]

UK turns to TDD for Mobile TV

Rating: Good use for unused spectrum

Social networking and mobile advertising are this year’s themes at MWC, Barcelona. Mobile TV is decidedly passee. Yet two British based operators – Orange and T-Mobile – have just agreed to a new mobile TV pilot in West London.
Significantly, they’ve picked technology based around the unpaired (TDD) 3G frequencises which [...]

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