I was trying to think the other day of a Multiplayer Mobile Game that I’ve played consistently over an Operator’s wireless (2G or 3G) network – and I couldn’t think of any! I then tried to think of multiplayer games on Mobile that I’ve played over Bluetooth – and one came to mind immediately –…
5 predictions for Mobile Advertising – a couple as a teaser…
MobiAD News are summarising a report from Berg Insight, the well-known telecoms analyst firm, on five predictions for Mobile Advertising. I’ve just shown a couple below that I believe have real impact, but for the full five you’ll need to go to MobiAD News. For more detailed info, I recommend you visit Berg Insight’s corporate…
Qualcomm and Amobee deliver Ads in Widgets
Amobee Media Systems and Qualcomm have announced that they are partnering to enable Ads in mobile widgets, distributed by Qualcomm’s Plaza platform. Given the growth in popularity of widgets, this is potentially quite an impactful event for the Mobile Internet. As we know, widget are (typically) mini-apps that have some kind of stovepipe task –…
Brasil Telecom launches Mobile TV trial – full service coming soon
I don’t often post on happenings in Brazil, so this makes a nice change – Brasil Telecom has launched a trial of it’s Mobile TV service. The trial is only going to run in Porto Alegre, but the full service launch will come in December (and I would imagine encompass a geographical roll-out). Channels will…
UK: £5 Mobile Phone – yes please!
The Home Electronics price craziness continues – I wrote a while back that DVD player prices had hit the floor (likewise with the Nokia 1208), and onward we go – this time the Samsung B130 at the Carphone Warehouse. If you stick £10 of credit on there, you can ‘ave the phone for a fiver…
Hutchison Telecom adds 11m subs in Q3
Hutchison Telecom has reported that for Q3 this year, it added 11.2m subs to it’s total user base. This was across both newer and more established operations. In Indonesia, 401K new subs were add, making a total customer base of over 3.6m. In Hong Kong, a 50% of the 3G market was reached, and in…
UK: Memory prices go crazy crazy crazee!
Has the world gone mad? Given recent events you might say yes, but I was referring specifically to the price of Mobile Memory Cards! There have been a stack of offers recently in the UK, even to the point where the high-street retailers are trying to get in on the action. However, their pricing is…
UK: BA rolls out check-in via Mobile
British Airways has rolled out check-in via your Mobile for those people with InterWeb access. The serivce apparently allows users to get up-to-date flight arrival/departure info, as well as select seats, and check yo’self in within 24 hrs of departure. This leads on nicely from the iPhone app – in fact, I think the iPhone…
Natty accessories #258: The Proclip
Check out all the mounted devices, courtesy of the Proclip! I like good accessories – be they chargers, covers, or mounts – and I came across Proclip In-Vehicle Device Mounting Solutions the other day. They do a wide range of mounts for a lots of devices (imagine if you had that little lot in the…
BlackBerry Storm: the five-minute fiddle
Those of you that have been reading my mini-mini-reviews of devices (the ‘five-minute fiddle’ series), will know that I’ve tried a bunch of devices recently – albeit in some cases for a very limited amount of time – hence the ‘five-minute’ part 🙂 So, devices I have checked out are the Nokia N96, Sony Ericsson…