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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. 

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 […]

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. 

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 […]

Who would have thought that 2006 would see a 10 mega pixel camera phone? The Samsung SCH-B600 is just that. Nokia and Samsung also introduced 8GB music phones. Nokia's N-series pushed the boundaries with its TV-enabled N92 and N93 mobile camcorder. While Symbian shipped 100 million units of devices shipped with their OS operating system. […]