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2010 predictions part 4: Off portal will rule!

Off portal changes the game back to a game of cut-throat online marketing. It is a very different game to B2B sales to one customer group, the mobile carrier. It is also slightly quicker and costlier. Sales cycles of 12 months and “free” traffic on a revenue share deal is becoming a thing of the [...]

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 [...]

This was a milestone week for the mobile content industry

“It’s Friday – I’m in love!”, The Cure This week has been pretty mind-blowing to be honest. Two pretty major announcements made from two behemoths in the industry. First out was Vodafone “outing” itself as a smart pipe nothing more and nothing less. Let’s hope the walk matches the talk. Your humble blogger has been a proponent [...]

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. [...]

About those 60 m AppStore downloads…

How does the long tail of App Store look? More to the point how does the backlog of apps not yet tester and approved look? What is the cost on average to develop an iPhone app? How many developers have made a profit om their apps? You see where I am heading. Is the AppStore [...]