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…
State of mobile retailing
Echo Chamber is a great resource for tracking the most innovative concepts in mobile phone retailing. They have a team which reviews and photographs retail locations across the world and post the results on their site. Registration is free and i…
Meet the speakers: Nancy Broden, Punchcut
Nancy Broden, a mobile user experience specialist overseeing the interaction design practice at Punchcut, will speak at the MEX conference on 2nd – 3rd May 2007 in London.
Over the past 10 years she has led teams in the strategy and design of n…
Where is the colour in the monochrome mobile industry?
Amid the aesthetic assault and branding riot of the trade show floor, I was drawn to NTT DoCoMo’s stand at 3GSM this year. The gaudy, diverse colours of the handsets on display lured me from the aisle and proved sufficiently distracting to make m…
Meet the speakers: Zeljko Jeftic, ERTICO
Zeljko Jeftic is the Project and Development Manager at ERTICO, the European organisation which combines public sector and private companies to develop next generation intelligent transport systems. His team is working on the Nomadic Device and C…
Roaming without the fees
The price of roaming in EU countries is now falling, but only after the European Union made it clear they were serious about regulating the market if operators didn’t take steps themselves. However, roaming costs outside the EU remain very high. …