News & Comment
Revenue Share Model over Content Business Value Chain
December 12, 2007, by svo9712
In the Mobile Content Business value chain there are several parties (ie. Telecom Operator, Platform Vendor, Content Aggregator, Content Owner or Creator, Content Sponsor etc) involved nowadays. Everyone is involved here for their own benefits. From my experience I have seen that the operator tries to lower their CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) as well as the OPEX (Operational Expenditure). Hence Revenue Share business model came in the scene to satisfy all the related parties. Here in this article I will not just try to describe on the Revenue Share Business Model but also will try explore some concept on the Expenditure share model... Read More
More Mobile Web Design
December 11, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We have just published another extract from Cameron Moll's excellent book, Mobile Web Design. (Thanks Cameron!) In this next installment from the chapter "Beyond Simple XHTML Pages", topics covered include SVG, Flash Lite, and Location Awareness. Feels like a bit of an SVG-fest here lately, but as Ronan points out, maybe quite a few of us could be paying more attention to this technology... Read More
Taptu on “Mobile Search” – in Dublin tonight!
December 10, 2007, by James Pearce
One of my out-of-hours activities is to organise Mobile Monday in Dublin.Tonight we are priviledged to hear from experts Taptu on the topic of mobile search. They are kindly sponsoring too.It's also our "Christmas Do"... so if you are in the Dublin area and want to mix, network, eat and drink - with Taptu and , we think, the cream of Dublin mobilati - then come on down!... Read More
SVG and the Mobile Web
December 5, 2007, by ronan
It has always surprised me that the mobile industry has not made better use of SVG. SVG is very well suited to publishing rich content on mobile devices for a number of reasons: compact, lightweight, open standard, reasonably good device support. We've just published an article on mobiForge that summarises the capabilities of SVG and how best to take advantage of it for mobile web applications.Link... Read More
What, no GPS?
December 3, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Well we all knew it was possible: location by cell information. It's just that it hasn't really turned up in that many mainstream mobile applications. So hats off to Google with Maps for Mobile 2.0. They've managed to turn an already great application into quite simply one of the best, must-have free mobile applications available... Read More
