Archive for December, 2007

Ring tones hype is over

For several time, there was a real madness for ring tones, which was a real gold mine for distributors such as Jamba and Musiwave. But those days seem to be over now. The sales of ring tones in Europe is decreasing rapidly. More and more devices allow to make your own ring tones. If your [ READ MORE ]

iPhone users love ads

According to a report by AdMod, iPhone users are more susceptible for mobile advertising. Ad impressions from US iPhones increased from 1,86 million in October to 6,65 million in November, which represents 0,9 percent of all ads served. It remains to be seen if the results will remain high or are just a temporary result [ READ MORE ]

Mobile radio Tunin.fm on Vodafone

Tunin.fm, a brand of Dutch company Mobilaria, has signed a deal with Vodafone Holland to allow mobile radio services on the Vodafone network. Vodafone clients can listen to more than 200 radio stations with their mobile phone from anywhere in the world. For this service they pay a fixed fee of 3,50 EUR per month. [ READ MORE ]

Nokia starts mobile video service

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has presented Medeo, their new mobile service that allows to stream videos on a mobile. The streaming content contains Hollywood news, film trailers, celebrity interviews and red-carpet footage. Check it out on their mobile portal www.nokia.mobi[ READ MORE ]

MobileWeb.be wins two Mobistar Awards

MobileWeb.be was the big winner at the annual Mobistar Innovation Awards, which took place yesterday at ‘Living Tomorrow’. The prestigious PlazZza Award was acknowledged to the dealer locator for Audi. The emergency alerting platform Helpi was rewarded with the SMS Award. MobileWeb.be, four years of innovation MobileWeb.be is no stranger at the Mobistar Innovation Awards. [ READ MORE ]

SMS celebrates 15th birthday

It might seem like the hype of the past 5 years, but SMS is in fact much older than that. This month, it has been 15 years ago that the first text message was sent out by a few IT-workers at Vodafone UK. Back in 1992, it wasn’t yet seen as a potential revenue generator, [ READ MORE ]

Mobile music revenue up to 30% by 2011

Market research by Understanding & Solutions predicts that by 2011 mobile downloads will represent 30% of global music industry revenues. Currently it accounts for only 13%. The predicted $11 billion revenue will somewhat compensate the decline in traditional music retail sales. The market will be dominated by Japan and the US,driven by strong mobile subscriber [ READ MORE ]

Is the iPhone a phone ?

Steve Jobs has done it again: the introduction of the iPhone is without doubt THE event of 2007 in the telecom and internet world. How does a computer producer succeed in shaking up this market? What is so special about the iPhone? The iPhone didn’t miss its entrance: on September 1st, only 74 days before [ READ MORE ]

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