News & Comment
Number crunching: USA is number one in mobile Web surfing or is it?
March 16, 2009, by mobiThinking
The US was crowned top country for mobile Internet browsing last week by the press, as mobile analytics company Bango released its latest figures, overtaking the UK. But can we say with certainty that the US is number one and UK is number two?... Read More
The Grid – mobile social networking that speaks the language of marketers
March 11, 2009, by mobiThinking
Every time you turn over a stone there seems to be half-dozen mobile social networks lurking underneath. It’s a shame because they’re all fascinating in their own special way, but if you don’t have time to put them under the magnifying glass, they all look a bit similar (from a mobile marketing point of view). But this one leaps right out… and bites you... Read More
Mobile Social Networking Forum conference (London): discount for mobiThinking readers
March 5, 2009, by mobiThinking
mobiThinking readers will receive a 15 percent discount for the Mobile Social Networking Forum conference, at London’s Olympia Conference Centre, March 9 and 10, 2009... Read More
Kind of a “sunshine transcoder story”
March 3, 2009, by jonarne
I guess many of you have been following discussions on various attempts by network operators to transcode desktop web sites and squeeze them on to a mobile device, without respecting the intentions of content owners. The case I'll be talking about is the TeliaSonera case, and their "SurfOpen" service. First time around, the launch caused an uprising among the content owners forcing TeliaSonera to go offline with SurfOpen. Now SurfOpen is launched again with a more reasonable approach... Read More
What no links? How the Oscars, film distributors and news sites are all at sea over mobile
March 2, 2009, by mobiThinking
mobiThinking has been on an Oscars-inspired trip to the movies. There are some excellent mobile tools for movie lovers – reviews and trailers that helped us decide what to see, even sites that told us where the film was playing locally and allowed us to book seats. The frustrating thing is it took hours. Hours spent trawling through mobile search and directory sites… and the daft thing is we shouldn’t need to do it... Read More
