Archive for December, 2008

What did 2008 bring for Mobile?

As the end of year period allows some catching up on reading industry news, I came across an interesting year overview by FierceMobile, which nicely sums up the importance of the past year for the mobile industry. 1/ The iPhone pushes the Mobile Internet to the next level The iPhone was first launched in 2007, [ READ MORE ]

French retailers test mobile wallet

Several French retail stores are testing the possibility of introducing payments by mobile phone.  These stores include Auchan, Carrefour, Fnac and Kinepolis, among others.  In a first phase, running till the spring of 2009, several possible ideas are considered during brains tormings and test ateliers.  Next up will be the transfer into technical applications and experimenting.  The [ READ MORE ]

Mobile social networking grows 182%

At the Web Goes Mobile seminar, Paul Golding indicated that mobile social networks will be the killer app for the mobile phone. His point seems to be proven by recent figures  of US research firms The Kelsey Group and ConStat.  These indicate that the volume of US mobile subscribers who accessed social networks via mobile [ READ MORE ]

Operation guided by SMS

A British doctor, working in Congo for Doctors Without Borders, has operated an adolescent while following instructions given by SMS. The doctor got confronted with a young man who was biten by a hippopotame.  To avoid gangrene and a sudden death, the man’s arm needed to be amputated.  However, the doctor had never done such [ READ MORE ]

Web Goes Mobile 3: food for thought

On December 4th, the third edition of the Web Goes Mobile seminar took place. Many enthusiastic participants received new insights from a unique panel of eminent speakers. The absentees were wrong this year as well, but can still get a short summary here. “Almost 1 million Belgians surf mobile regularly” Nanno Palte of Insites Consulting [ READ MORE ]

New operator Mobile Vikings offers free mobile internet

Today, December 16th at 16.16, Mobile Vikings will be launched into the Belgian market.  This new mobile operator, developed by CityLive, aims to offer free mobile internet access.  This way, CityLive wants to promote their platform of mobile applications.  The high data tariffs of the traditional operators still block the proliferation of such mobile applications.   [ READ MORE ]

Google Adwords for iPhone and G1

Google has announced new campaign-level options for their Adwords application, allowing advertisers to show their text and image ads on the iPhone, the T-Mobile G1, and other mobile devices with full (HTML) Internet browsers.   This way, there’s no longer the  need to create mobile landing pages or ads in mobile formats.   For more info, check [ READ MORE ]

2 million Dutchmen surf the mobile internet

In the Netherlands, two million mobile phone users regularly use the mobile internet.   3 out of 4 surfs and mails with a flat fee mobile subscription.  These figures come from a study by the platform Open Mobiel Internet (OMI). The amount of mobile surfers has risen with 25% in half a year time, going from [ READ MORE ]

Blyk comes to Belgium in January

In July, we reported about Blyk’s intention to come to Belgium.  The new mobile network, targeted at teenagers between 16 and 24 years, has now announced that it will launch on the Belgian market in January 2009.   The Netherlands will follow in February or March. Blyk uses a new business model, offering free sms and [ READ MORE ]

2009 will be difficult for mobile phone producers

The economic crisis will have its effect on the market of mobile phones.  Producers of mobile devices are expecting a serious fallback in 2009.  Market leader Nokia is counting on a decrease of 5% compared to 2008.  That’s more than the 1 to 4% predicted by the American research company Gartner.  Other producers such as [ READ MORE ]

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