Archive for January, 2009

MobileWeb.eu compiles all mobile sites

The past few months, we’ve seen the launch of several mobile internet sites.  MobileWeb has recently developed mobile sites for Corelio (de Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad & Jobat) and VDAB.  But question remains: how can we find those mobile sites? One technique, which is becoming a standard, is using the same URL as the Internet website, [ READ MORE ]

New mobile music services are booming

The Apple iPhone, combined with the iTunes store, proved that mobile music is quite an interesting market. Other mobile device manufacturers are jumping the bandwagon and rolling out new music services. First there was Nokia’s “Comes With Music” (CWM) service, launched in October 2008, giving users unlimited access to 4 million tracks.  Sony Ericsson followed [ READ MORE ]

Palm presents new Pre smartphone

10 years ago, Palm dominated the PDA world.  Unable to hold on to their top position, they have since been pushed aside by the iPhones and Blackberries of this world.  Now they’re back in the competition with their new smartphone, the Palm Pre. The Pre, expected on the market this semester, sports a 3,1″ touch [ READ MORE ]

Mobile telecom is 4th biggest market

Economic crisis or not, mobile telecom is still one of the most profitable business markets in the world.  Only the food, weapon and car industry are doing better. These 4 markets are the only ones worth more than 1 trillion dollars (or 750 billion euro).   The telecom market is still growing, with now almost 4 billion [ READ MORE ]

Obama proves success of mobile marketing

At his inaugeration yesterday, US president Barack Obama promised Change.  One change that he has already implemented since the start of his election campaign is his embrace of modern technology, in particular the Internet and Mobile Marketing. We already reported on this blog before how he successfully incorporated SMS Alerts and a Mobile Internet site [ READ MORE ]

No T-Mobile G1 in Belgium

The T-Mobile G1, the first smartphone based on the Google Android operating system, won’t become available in Belgium.  This time the problem is not due to the prohibition of combined sales, but to the fact that T-Mobile is not present in our country.  But no worries, HTC is also working on an Android-phone, which should become available [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Internet in China 2008

Last year, the adoption of the Mobile Internet in China has risen with 133%.  According to a report by the China Network Information Center, 117,6 million Chinese consumers accessed the web via their mobile device.   The mobile market in China consists in total of 633.8 million mobile subscribers. Students make up 43,5% of the mobile [ READ MORE ]

13y old sends 14.528 sms

The parents of a 13 year old girl in California were quite surprised when they received a phone bill that counted 440 pages.  It turned out that the girl had sent 14.528 SMS messages in a month time. That’s basically one message every two minutes that she was awake.  As explanation she said she just [ READ MORE ]

New European rules should stimulate Mobile TV

The European Commission has announced new rules for mobile television.  At the moment only Austria, Finland, France & Germany have regulated mobile TV services so far.  The European rules should uniform regulation for all member states. The providers can chose themselves which channel they want to broadcast on mobile, and network infrastructure can be shared [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Internet in France 2008

Some numbers and figures for the Mobile Internet use in France in 2008. * 71% of the mobinautes between the age of 15 and 20 years know Gallery.  72% of them already uses Gallery. * 50% of the mobinauts, who have an unlimited data subscription, connect to the Mobile Internet at least once a day. * [ READ MORE ]

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