Stat Spot: HSDPA devices
196
…HSDPA devices commercially launched up to March 2007, including 86 mobile phones. HSDPA, sometimes referred to as 3.5G, upgrades W-CDMA network speeds to 3.6 Mbs and higher. Source: GSA.
Meet the speakers: Mark Rolston, Frog Design
“2007 looks to be a pivotal year. We see a critical mass of technology, ideas, customer demand and dissatisfaction. It’s time to do something about it,” said Mark Rolston, who leads mobile user interface development and the creative teams at Frog…
Mobile Entertainment Magazine partners with MEX
PMN and Mobile Entertainment Magazine are working together to raise awareness of mobile user experience at the MEX conference, 2nd – 3rd May 2007, London.
User experience has become a key strategic issue for the mobile telecoms industry as it …
Meet the speakers: Al Russell, Vodafone
Al Russell, Head of Mobile Internet and Content Services at Vodafone will deliver a keynote addressing the MEX manifesto statement on communities and social networking at the MEX conference on 2nd – 3rd May 2007.
In his role at Vodafone, Russe…
Growth in open OS will shift zones of influence
The move to open mobile operating systems is accelerating, driven by growing awareness in the operator community that these platforms can lower their costs and encourage the development of a value-added services ecosystem.
Vodafone, for instanc…
Stat Spot: iPhone publicity
$400m
…in free publicity generated by news coverage of Apple’s iPhone. This figure was calculated Harvard Business School professor David Yoffie, who described the interest in the product as ‘unprecedented’. Source: USA Today.
Stat Spot: dotMobi domains
400,000
…dotMobi domains registered since October 2006. Apparently just 100,000 dotcom names were registered in the first 10 years of the domain’s existence. However, dotMobi didn’t provide figures for how many of these are being actively u…
How quickly can I launch a mobile service?
As we approach the MEX conference on 2nd – 3rd May 2007, I’ve been spending more and more of my time searching for answers to the questions raised by our 10 point MEX manifesto (you can read the full agenda here or download a copy of our PDF poste…