mobile apps
One way to get location right on mobile – Neer
Mashable published their top 5 shortlist for best location based services. The list is fair I think and there is a very interesting entry there – Neer. Here is a video on how it works. So why do I find Neer interesting? They have made smart and simple use of location. On top of that [...]
Why mobile gambling is the next big thing
Most of us have seen all the reports and articles on 2010 being the year of the mobile internet. The quote below adds to that. “Regarding the pace of change, we believe more users will likely connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within five years.” –The Mobile Internet Report, Morgan Stanley, [...]
Mobile phone networks fight back on apps | Business | The Guardian
The BBC iPlayer website viewed on an iPhone. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features London is to become the centre of a fightback by the world’s biggest mobile phone networks, which together serve more than four billion customers, against the growing power of Apple and Google. The capital will be the location for the headquarters of a [...]
Real money with mobile as a real channel
Here is a fantastic story about a company in the bricks and mortar word making real money with a mobileapp. Pizza Hut opening up a new store. In an iPhone near you. Well, if you are in the US that is. The claim is that they have sold pizzas for 1 million USD in that [...]
Why mobile cloud computing is not hype
Mobile cloud computing. Another hype term? Well, lately I have realised I use more services in the Cloud even from my phone. Mail is obvious, but lately also access to all my workfiles in the Cloud. I had a rela life/hard experience of this last Firday when my hard drive on my MacBookPro crashed while [...]
Layar – Another app that takes the BS out of LBS
The Dutch company Sprx Mobile has launched its new app Layar. Read about it here. They call it an augmented reality browser. Sounds fancy. What it does in layman terms though is that it pulls in relevant data depending on your geolocation and what you are pointing your camera phone to. Yes that us pretty [...]
Apple time!
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Will we succeed to take the BS out of LBS this time around?
LBS has been one of the long lasting hyped functionalities in mobile services. One of the classic cases is the location aware advertising model. I am walking down a street, approach a Starbucks and voila I get an MMS with a voucher for a half-price latte. Only thing is, I need to be signed up [...]
Vodafone opening the holy grail?
In yesterday’s announcement from Vodafone we can get a hint of the future. Operator opening up access to their unique assets for content and service providers to create and deploy their services to the masses in a more efficient way than before. It is not an app store. Remember Vodafone gives access to bill their customers worldwide. [...]
More on App Stores
A follow-on to my last post. Just read the extract for a new study from Strand Consult, the wireless industry consultants. Their study is funnily enough called App Stores, do they have a future?. They have a somewhat blunt but still useful analogy. If the mobile VAS/content market was the bookmarket, the problem is not [...]
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