Mobile events 2014: best mobile conferences, great discounts and free tickets – mobile marketing, mobile Web, m-commerce
June 17, 2014, by mobiThinking
Planning which mobile events to attend in 2014? You’ve come to the right place. This is our pick of mobile conferences from the North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa and we’ve also negotiated some great discounts and, from time-to-time, free tickets to give away. This is not your usual mobile events list. Great mobile events from mobiThinking partners: MLOVE ConFestival Europe... Read More
FIFA World Cup Mobile Site
June 16, 2014, by Martin Clancy
As World Cup fever begins to take hold (even for those of us from countries that didn't qualify), I've inevitably found myself drawn into the competition, multi-screen style. Having access to an array of fixtures, groups, stats, team line-ups and so on at my fingertips has definitely added to my experience of the event... Read More
Global mobile statistics 2014 Home: all the latest stats on mobile Web, apps, marketing, advertising, subscribers, and trends…
June 13, 2014, by mobiThinking
The mobiThinking compendium of mobile statistics and research The stats, all the stats and nothing but the stats In the past three years, we have gone from a smattering of mobile statistics to an abundance of useful information. But there's still a long way to go, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge, some countries enjoy a proliferation of data sources, while others have little or none; and the quality of statistics varies incredibly. As telecoms regulators and industry associations start to collect and share meaningful data, things will only get better... Read More
Global mobile statistics 2014 Section G: Mobile banking and m-money; Section H: Venture capital (VC) investment in mobile
June 13, 2014, by mobiThinking
FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND THE MOBILE STATS COMPENDIUM:... Read More
Faulty redirects, Google, and you
June 5, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Google has, for some time now, recommended various guidelines that should be observed when redirecting visitors from a desktop site to a mobile site. One such recommendation is that visitors who request a specific page on the desktop site should be redirected to the corresponding page on the mobile site, and should not be redirected to the homepage of the mobile site... Read More
Mobile awards 2014 guide: winners at all major global mobile awards with video case studies; plus how and what to enter in 2014
June 5, 2014, by mobiThinking
Mobile awards play a very important role. They showcase best practice in mobile Web, marketing and services, bringing great kudos for the winners and inspiration for the rest of us. But with dozens of mobile awards around the globe, with vastly varying quality, coverage and price, where should you be entering your mobile site, app, campaign or service, and from which awards are we likely to learn the most?... Read More
The Webby Awards 2014 the award-winning mobile campaigns with video case studies
June 5, 2014, by mobiThinking
Congratulations Webby winners, if you haven’t already, please send a summary of your winning entry, including evidence of success, and links to your case studies/videos and award entry to editor (at) mobiThinking.com. Awards: The Webby Awards a.k.a. The Webbys... Read More
Less Is More – Why You Should Care About Latency For Your Mobile Site
May 28, 2014, by chrskly
When it comes to site optimisation, we tend to focus a lot on page weight and bandwidth to the device. While these are very important, this is not the whole picture. Optimising for speed is important for all classes of end-user device - mobile and desktop alike... Read More
Revealed: mobile banking customers at worlds largest banks – the huge, the tiny and the AWOL
May 23, 2014, by mobiThinking
If you want to know how seriously a company takes mobile, study the annual report. The reports of the world’s largest banks show that they – and their investors – consider mobile banking to be very important. And that’s not surprising considering that there are expected to be 1 billion mobile banking users in 2017, according to Juniper Research (January, 2013)... Read More
Global mobile statistics 2014 Part A: Mobile subscribers; handset market share; mobile operators
May 16, 2014, by mobiThinking
FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND THE MOBILE STATS COMPENDIUM:... Read More