Archive for December, 2006
INTERNATIONAL ICON FOR WIRELESS INTERNET HOT SPOT
Last month, WIRED sponsored a contest to design an international icon for wireless internet access and received hundreds of submissions. The winning design was selected by a prestigious panel of judges who included: Barbara Bloemink, Curatorial Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Colleen Macklin, Design Dept Chair, Parsons The New School for Design and Dana Spiegel […]
Advert supported content - subsidised premium content through advertising.
Mobile is the only entertainment medium that presently does not subsidise content with advertising. Thanks to the work of a number of companies this is set to change. AdMob have mirrored the online model of interfacing content owners with advertiser’s ad offering a revenue share on click throughs. It is estimated that the platform served […]
Collaboration, Social Networking and User generated content - the technology craze of 2006.
While some operators, developers and service providers saw some success on the mobile platform with social networking the services will benefit from future potential of cheaper and faster data. Text based community features were launched by Jumbuck, Freever and AirG. One business model with proven revenues was 3UK/Yoomedia's SeeMe TV, allowing customers to share videos […]
GAMES - although a proven business mobile gaming failed to meet potential in 2006.
A year of stealthy hand playing for corporates with Glu buying iFone and Waat buying Charismatix, and Index acquiring Wonderphone. Fewer were hands were played in the field of development as the 3G platform awaits proliferation and flat rate billing is introduced. Only then will we hope to see real growth in connected and multiplayer […]
MUSIC - 2006 saw the mobile handset begin to pull the rug from under the feet of iPod.
For the first time in over 3.5 years quarter on quarter sales of Ipod fell, as consumers eyes up the power and potential of music phones. Sony Ericsson are selling over 1 million 4GB W950 walkman phones every month and Samsung and Nokia also have increasing market share. It has been a year of consolidation […]
Carphone Warehouse goes off-portal
Sources reveal that that the phone retail giant Carphone Warehouse have developed a Java portal that they plan to embed in every phone sold. This clever move will enable Carphone to steer users away from operator portals and on to their own content shop. User apathy to services in general indicates that the CPW platform […]
Mobile Content Management
There seems to be an endless flow of new mobile content management companies offering services including streaming downloads and WAP site development. 3 new companies include, Saffron Digital, INfomedia, and MIA.
Video Ringback is coming
The video ringback is a new service from Comverese that utilises pre bought music videos and video clips, or free promotional video clips. While the phone is ringing or while in going or out going calls are being made the video plays on the phone screen. It is proposed that the video ringback will help […]
Mobile Search - finally we find a way out of the walled garden
Presently there seems only room for the big players like Google, offering trust to consumers and easily licensed to the major operators like T-Mobile and Vodafone and Yahoo to Nokia. There is potential for white label operators like Jumptap, Medio and others who claim to offer better rev share models and more flexible features.
Off-Portal and D2C - what came of the Crazy Frog?
The D2C rollercoaster came off its tracks somewhat after it sped through 2005. Misselling of subscription services led to Jamba being bought out by News Corp, which seems to have saved us from another seasonal bought of Frog Flu. Generally speaking however the off-portal market has become much stronger in 2006. We've seen more search […]
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