… at least that’s what Sven Halling of End2End says (by the way, his company runs the outsourced games services for Vodafone, amongst others). You may remember a post I made last week relating to Virgin Mobile outsourcing their games and video delivery, so this is a follow-up. Sven does make a good point actually,…
Babies and Mobiles – part 2: gimme a good camera
I am sure you weren’t all expecting the second part to this commentary so soon – well here it comes! My wife and I agreed since way before our baby was born, that we were going to take lots of photos. Maybe not so many videos, but certainly capture (and print) lots of photos. We…
Babies and Mobiles – part 1: I can’t hear you….
As some of you may remember, when I joined IntoMobile only a few short weeks ago, I said that I was going to post some entries about the situation of having a new baby, and how my Mobile life relates to it. “Great!” some of you said, and I’m sure equally as many groaned! However,…
O2 revamps ‘Active’, as i-mode fades away….
Sad news for fans of i-mode, on the back of some good news for the rest of us – O2 is preparing to pull the plug on i-mode, at the same time as getting ready to launch a newly redesigned ‘Active’ portal. The new portal features highly sophisticated personalisation, and is content-centric – it’s the…
10 essential factors for successful Mobile TV…
Without hanging on the detail too long, a report has been created by digital research agency ‘Tomorrow’, and commissioned by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA). It states the 10 essential factors for successful Mobile TV, of which I am going to comment on a few below – but before all that,…
Mobile TV Subscribers to reach 462 Million by 2012
I like positive reports, don’t you? It’s nice when you can read a report which says, via big numbers, that something is going to be very successful. I just happen to have one of those reports right here! ABI Research says that as Mobile TV services expand over the next 5 years, the total number…
5 of Japan’s top 10 selling books started out on Mobile…
… and that’s not all – books sold on Mobile generated 82 million dollars annually! It’s the first stat that amazes me though – it turns the concept of books, and how we consume them on their head (not that reading a book whilst on your head is an enjoyable experience). The whole delivery model…
Ad Infuse gets $12m financing
Ad Infuse (a mobile advertising company) recently announced it has received $12m in funding, which came from a mixture of new and existing investors. The money will be used to further develop the adInMotion platform, which is capable of dynamically inserting (targeted) ads in to video content. Ad Infuse is one of the newer mobile…
Update: AT&T to launch Broadcast Mobile TV in next couple of weeks?
Apparently AT&T is due to launch it’s own MediaFLO-based broadcast Mobile TV in the USA in the next few weeks, after Verizon’s launch last year. Now we’ve mentioned this story before (here and here), but this most recent update states the launch is immiment – exciting times indeed! There will be 8 linear 24hr channels,…
CeBIT – right after MWC!
For those of you gadget-heads that don’t get enough of a fix at MWC (Mobile World Congress, formerly known as 3GSM), CeBIT only a few weeks in Hannover, Germany. The main difference between the two shows is that whereas MWC is more of an Telecoms industry show (and is located in the very lovely Barcelona),…