Archive for November, 2006

Vodafone Courting Social Networking?

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

cell phoneBusiness Week have a about Vodafone's plans to allow their customers to access social networking sites and services from their handsets. Of course, as noted on , this sort of thing isn't exactly news. Business Week tick all the usual boxes, dropping names like …

MobileCrunch Responds to Berggi Comments

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

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dogster2.JPGThanks for reading, great comments everyone. I knew when I posted this that it was going to cause some controversy. I am pleased that it hasn’t disappointed.

Seeing as how my own diligence processes are under attack I suppose I’d better shed a little light upon my own investigatory …

GSM Operators Agree on NFC Approach

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

cell phoneMobile wallet, anyone? Fourteen operators within the GSM Association, representing 40 percent of the world's mobile customers, to implementing near-field communication (NFC) technology in mobiles, opening the door to using a mobile device to interact more directly …

Oberon Buys Blaze

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

cell phoneOberon Media it has bought mobile game developer Blaze.Blaze will provide Oberon with a dynamic portfolio of single player, multiplayer, and 3D mobile games such as: “The Da Vinci Code”, VH1 Mobile's “I know the 80s”, the highly rated Rally Pro, MTV Europe Music Awards …

UK Mobile Internet Use Up

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

cell phoneThe has released a new press release with news that is growing in the UK.Increasingly tech-savvy, mobile users expect their phones to give them more features, flexibility and the handiness of the desktop on the move. Key features such as mobile e-mail and mobile web are …

Veeker “Veeks the Vote” and Tweaks Competitors With a Landslide Victory in the Participation Category

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

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Citizen journalism is catching fire in this country and nowhere is this more apparent than in the political scene where daily news is being captured and posted to the Internet and major news outlets. If you’re a politico you’d better not slip up in public because someone is sure to have a video camera on you; most likely one using .

You may recall just a few weeks ago. In the short time they’ve been live, the company …

Berggi: a Business Built on Bad Due Diligence

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

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bad_idea.gifKatie Fehrenbacher has a on Houston Texas based mobile email start-up .

Katie wonders if this is likely to succeed. I think she’s being far too charitable. She and I both know that expecting someone that doesn’t even have a data plan to download an application to their …

Can Blyk Rewrite the Rules for Mobile: New Ad-Supported Carrier Model an Interesting Experiment

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

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Blyk is quite possibly the biggest gamble in wireless history. The concept, to offer free mobile phone service to a youthful demographic in exchange for the right to pipe advertising directly to the handsets of the users of the network. In development since January of this year, the company plans to launch its inaugural service in mid-2007, staring in the UK and ranging out from there.

The company describes itself as: a pan-European …

Nokia N80 As Recording Studio? First Ever Album Made on a Mobile.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

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Israeli musician Omri Levy has taken the idea of the DIY album and elevated the technique to an entirely new and unprecedented degree of mobility by using his and to record the first album on the net produced entirely using a mobile platform.

The release, “about:blank”, which is available via is availble for free under a Creative Commons release.

Is this the future of the recording industry? Well, certainly one possible …

Pitch Launches Mobile Social Networking

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

cell phoneFirst up, some disclosure: This is the project I've been working full-time on for the past 3 months, and is what I alluded to in my last post.

has launched a full mobile social networking application, specifically designed for use via WAP rather than via …