Archive for February, 2010

Fourth Belgian mobile operator now legally possible

The Parliament has approved a law proposal that makes room for a fourth mobile operator in the Belgian mobile landscape.  Although other candidates are ‘possible’ according to minister Van Quickenborne, it’s a public secret that Telenet is very interested in this licence.  A fourth licence for the 3G network is now also possible and will [ READ MORE ]

Apple and Android are big winners of 2009

The sales of mobile phones stagnated last year, as a result of the recession.  But smartphones were the exception.  According to figures by Gartner, 24% more smartphones were sold in 2009 compared to the year before.  Nokia, Blackberry and Apple together sold about 172 million smartphones. Also important changes as to the operating system of mobile devices.  [ READ MORE ]

Apple App Store becomes even more strict on ‘sexual content’

So far, Apple has always banned adult content from their app store.  But at least some soft erotic material was still accepted, such as profiles of models (without nude pictures).  But it seems they are getting more puritanical than ever.  Recently Apple decided to ban “all sexual content”.  Apparently, that means everything that could lead [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Publishing & Advertising. Are you ready for the breakthrough in 2010?

On Monday March 1st, Mobile Monday Brussels and IAB Belgium are organising their next event, to which you are kindly invited.  MobileWeb will do the introduction for this event. Main topic: Mobile Publishing & Advertising. Are you ready for the breakthrough in 2010? Key themes that will be discussed this evening are: - current status [ READ MORE ]

4,6 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide

With a massive 4,6 billion subscriptions throughout the world, the popularity of mobile telephony keeps on rising.  The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) of the United Nations expects to exceed the milestone of 5 billion by the end of this year. The amount of mobile broadband connections has already reached 600 million and should surpass one billion by [ READ MORE ]

Steve Jobs is Mobile Industry Personality of the Year

At the Mobile World Congress, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs was named the Mobile Industry Personality of the Year. The award was voted for by the media. Awards were given in 19 categories including Mobile Marketing and Advertising, Best Mobile Contribution to Social and Economic Development, the Green Mobile Awards, and Mobile Industry Personality of the [ READ MORE ]

Easy translation with Google Goggles

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Googhle CEO Eric Schmidt presented  the new Google Goggles, a program available for Android smartphones.  It allows to take a picture of an object, building, monument,… and it will search for more information on this object (which sounds like a static version of Augmented Reality to me).  Goggles [ READ MORE ]

Apple bans ‘Android’ brand and location-based apps for mobile advertising

Apple continues its censorship on the access for mobile apps to their app store. Educational software developer Flash of Genius reports Apple has requested the firm remove mention of Google’s Android mobile operating system from the iTunes description of the startup’s iPhone and iPod touch application Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2. In November 2009, [ READ MORE ]

Ticketeazy wants to boost mobile ticketing

There’ve been talk about mobile ticketing for a long time already, but still we don’t see much appearing on the market. One of the latest initiatives is Ticketeazy, a project developed by Nick Van de Velde and Thomas Verhaeghe during their final year in college. They want to ease waiting lines at events through mobile ticketing, using [ READ MORE ]

Mobile World Congress Barcelona: a first view

All eyes of the mobile industry are directed to Barcelona this week, where the annual Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) is taking place.  Here are already some interesting news bits: - Microsoft Corp. unveiled the latest version of its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, adding video-games and music features in a bid to stop [ READ MORE ]

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