Stat Spot: One-Seg mobile TV in Japan
00:30:26
…is the average weekly viewing time (30 minutes and 26 seconds) of users of the Japanese One-Seg mobile digital TV service. 1.5% of the population is equipped with One-Seg compatible terminals and 61.9% of are aware of the service. …
Managing the personal communications space
The Small Surfaces blog has a link to an interesting thesis by Ana Camila Amorim, who is taking a masters in interaction design at the Interaction Design Insititute Ivrea. In her paper, Ana explores how management of the user’s personal communica…
Stat Spot: On-portal game purchases
71%
…of mobile game purchases are made from the operator’s portal. 53 percent of all gaming sessions on mobile devices are with downloaded games, with 39 percent alreay installed on the handset and 8 percent played on-line. Source: Telephia.
LogicaCMG’s reality check
LogicaCMG, which supplies and manages a wide range of customer service and delivery platforms for mobile operators, has published some interesting research claiming 58 percent of users don’t know the make and model of their handset. This, presuma…
DoCoMo chooses search engine partners while wider market remains uncertain
NTT DoCoMo has selected nine partners for a new keyword search feature to be included at the top of the i-Mode homepage. The prime location is one of the most valuable pieces of screen real estate in Japan, reaching DoCoMo’s 46.7m i-Mode subscrib…
Pt. 2, Human integration and the death of the device
This is part two of a two part essay by Marek Pawlowski on the future of user interfaces, mobile handsets and human integration. Part one was published last Friday and can be read here.
Direct integration, it would seem, is a step too far for …
Stat Spot: Samsung’s handset sales
4%
…decline in Samsung’s Q2 2006 handset sales compared to last year and an 8% sequential fall from the previous quarter. The Korean company believes new ulta-thin models will boost sales in Q3. Source: Samsung.
Tira’s Jump updated to meet demands of content publishers
Tira Wireless has announced the latest version of its Jump product suite. Jump brings together a number of tools for adapting, deploying and managing content and applications across a wide range of device platforms and operator networks.
When …