Hong Kong: Ericsson has been selected as sole supplier for mutimedia service network upgrades by SmarTone-Vodafone. Ericsson will supply a HSPA-enabled radio access network, including MBMS, and a fully IP-based core network (including IMS). The deal will also include all related Professional Services (PS) work. Ericsson is already the sole supplier of SmarTone-Vodafone’s core and…
Next-gen Advertising: Orange’s view
MobiAD News has conducted an interview with Pascal Thomas, mobile visionary and VP of Orange NExT (the mobile media division of France Telecom Orange), on advertising through social networks. You can read the full interview here, but here are some of the highlights: Segmentation – the traditional view is that all subs fit in to…
Citizen Journalists – they WILL go Mobile!
There’s a nice piece by BBC News columnist Bill Thompson which talks about how the web is changing the way that journalism works – you can find it here – and which I thought I would pick up on. The central thread of the piece is that the web has had a massive effect on…
EA releases 5 new games for Mobile
EA Mobile has announced availability of five new titles for Mobile devices. They are: The Sims 2 Castaway The Sims Pool Monopoly Here & Now Yahtzee Adventures Merv Griffin’s Crosswords Granted, this isn’t the most exciting of news, so I moseyed on over to the EA Mobile site to take a look around. It brought…
AdMob Serves 20 Billionth Mobile Ad
AdMob has announced that it has served it’s 20 billionth Mobile Ad. Apparently, “the 20 billionth impression was from financial services conglomerate HDFC and was served in India at 1.56 GMT on Tuesday March 25th. The user was browsing Cricinfo’s mobile site on a Nokia N70.” Check it out – watch AdMob nail that stat!…
Orange announces ‘Cinema Series’ On-demand TV for Mobiles & PCs
Orange (France) is to roll out a new Mobile service later in 2008 that apparently is going to have 6 TV channels and VoD (Video On Demand) for TV, PC, and most importantly, Mobile! Orange made the “convergence” announcement at the MIPTV 2008 event held in Cannes – logical really, since IPTV in many ways…
Panasonic sells 100 millionth Mobile phone
Panasonic has announced the sale of it’s 100 millionth Mobile phone in Japan. It has supplied devices to carriers including NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, and Softbank. Pansonic first began selling mobile comms terminals in 1979 – the first mobile phone being in 1987. Since then Panasonic has gone on to be Number 1 or Number 2…
Mobile video: still hype, says report
A survey by in the US by QuickPlay Media has found that 47% of consumers 18 to 34 years old do not even know whether their carrier offers any video services. 500 customers were surveyed, and the results released at CTIA. Apparently only 13% said they use Mobile Video services every day – although the…
Counterfeit Nokia N95s entering the UK market
Just in case you thought Dusan’s story about the fake N95-8GB was one of those “oh it will never happen to me” scenarios, don’t be so sure UK readers…. Mobile is reporting that N95-8GBs are on their way in to the UK, from Chinese sources, and being knocked out at £150, rather than the usual…
M:Metrics : iPhone stats
Whilst on the M: Metrics site, I spotted an interesting table relating to iPhone usage – check it out: Look at those stats! The iPhone is showing definitively that it’s leading the evolution of the Mobile device to a increasingly popular platform for consuming digital media. Awesome. [Via: M:Metrics]