News & Comment
“PC Intenet” user base shrinks as Indians go mobile
This is a very recent news article that appeared in India's Economic Times news paper. Here are some extracts for the news item... The total internet connections in the country declined to 9.22 million in April-June from 9.27 million in the previous quarter, according to telecom regulator TRAI's ...(India’s Population is estimate 1.12 billion)... Read More
Find.mobi goes beta
September 28, 2007, by ronan
Those of you who keep a close eye on your web server access logs may have been wondering what the botmobi crawler was doing sniffing about your site. Well now you know: we're pleased to announce that find.mobi is now in public beta... Read More
Mobile Web 2.0 Conference, London, 18-19 September
September 28, 2007, by Jo Rabin
A glorious blue sky over Lord's Cricket Ground was the setting for the opening of the Informa Mobile Web 2.0 conference in London, Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Notably also the week of the Apple iPhone UK launch announcement and the day of Sam Sethi's birthday (not sure which is more notable) this was a gathering of a number of well known figures in the mobile space to talk about what seems to be the topic of the season - you could spend the rest of the Autumn attending these events, which perversely have sprung up like Spring flowers... Read More
Mobile advertising for the greater good
September 18, 2007, by jonarne
Mobile advertising is currently a buzz word, here on mobiForge and everywhere else. Hence, the meaning of the term "mobile marketing" has many interpretations. I'll narrow it down to just talk about banner ads on mobile portals for now... Lots of articles have been written , Gartner finds it interesting and lots of commercial companies are entering this business. Of course we all hate flashing,blinking,rotating and noisy ads on web sites, and I fear that we're gonna hate it even more on our mobile phones! But not yet... Before we start to hate them, we will actually find them relevant... Read More
Cooking the mobile web
September 14, 2007, by Cyril
Ingredients: Handsets, Operators efforts, Content and Educated public.Instructions:Prepare your handsets until most of them are technically ready to display and browse mobile content.While this step is going in a good way, start the long process to shape mobile content, it must have a nice flavor of context relative.Last step you gently mix operators efforts to provide a cheap, fast and enthusiastic access. And don’t forget to pour some education on your public, so everybody will know that mobile web is cool, cheap and tasty!... Read More
