July 2006
Yahoo, Motorola deal highlights struggle for portal power
Yahoo has agreed a deal with Motorola to pre-install its Yahoo Go mobile services on mid- and high-end handsets, including email, search and address book capabilities. The portal already has a similar deal with Nokia and has been actively buildin…
Stat Spot: Motorola RAZR sales
50m
Motorola has shipped more than 50m RAZR handsets since the model was introduced two years ago. RAZR has been at the heart of the renaissance in Motorola’s mobile business, helping grow its market share to 22 percent in Q2 2006 and driving r…
KDDI, Qualcomm to develop own OS and platform
KDDI, Japan’s second largest network operator, has announced it is developing a standard platform for handsets in collaboration with Qualcomm. The operator will require all its handset suppliers to use the platform, which includes everything from…
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…