Alloy, Digital Airways in UI partnership
Industrial design consultancy Alloy is working in partnership with UI platform provider Digital Airways to develop interfaces for its conc..
Stat Spot: Japanese blogging
55.4%
…of Japanese bloggers surveyed by Technorati and Edelman have never been contacted by the companies they’re blogging about, sug..
Something for the weekend…
Streaming football (sorry, not soccer)
US customers of MVNO Mobile ESPN will soon be able to enjoy college football games streamed to t..
Handset subsidies may be counter-productive
I was intrigued by the data M:Metrics provided for our recent Stat Spot: according to a survey of some 33,000 US mobile phone users, those..
Stat Spot: Satisfaction relative to handset price
$300
Customers in the US paying more than USD 300 for their handset are the most likely to be satisfied with their purchase according t..
Smarter music search
Telefonica Moviles is working with Musiwave, the mobile music specialist owned by Openwave, to launch an artist-based content service in S..
Interview: Dave Evans, SurfKitchen
Dave Evans is CTO at SurfKitchen, provider of on-device portals for operators such as Orange, TIM and Telefonica. He joined SurfKitchen f..
Stat Spot: Q2 mobile phone shipments
229m
…mobile phones were shipped in Q2 of 2006 according to Gartner. While this was slightly down on Q1, Gartner is still maintainin..