Carnival of the Mobilists #214 – the best of mobile blogging

Published 9th March
This week the Carnival of the Mobilists #214 – the weekly line-up of the best blogs and bloggers on all things mobile – comes to us via Andy Favell at mobiThinking.
It is fascinating to watch how the digital revolution; and now mobile and m-commerce, impacts different sectors, take gaming, where the business has struck [...]


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Mobile: Why Run before you Walk…

Published 2nd March
The DUST has settled from this 2010’s mighty industry event – Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona – yet a FRENETIC interest in EVERYTHING mobile remains. Mobile the HOT topic and a MUST have.
For many ORGANISATIONS it almost seems that if mobile is not on the AGENDA someone is going to be held [...]


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Mobile World Congress 2010 – A review by Strand Consult

Published 23rd February
Good review from Strand Consult on MWC 2010.
Once again over 49,000 people with a unique relationship to the mobile industry were gathered in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress. There is no doubt that the conference has been a great success – when you put that many people in such a small space, [...]


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Carnival of the mobilists #210

 Published by Martin Wilson on 8th February 2010
 
Welcome to the 210th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. This week it is the turn of Martin Wilson from Indigo102 to provide his take on a week in mobile. 

With only a week to go until the biggest event of the mobile calendar there seems to be no [...]


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How ‘Local’ can you go?

Published 14th January
The frenzy has started as organisations jostle for a position in the mobile application hall of fame – ‘Local’ is shaping up to be one of the most hotly contested areas. What is it really going to take to make a mark and how ‘Local’ can you go?
The Apple strap-line resonates – [...]


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Mobile users, Going…Going…Gone. Whoops.

Published 12th January
Retention of users and usage frequency will become far more important for mobile services and should be central to mobile strategy for many organisations as they start to attempt to deliver real value from mobile.  
Last week I posted about the shocking reality of the retention levels of Apple and Android Applications. Analytics [...]


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Flurry of stats paints shocking picture of Application loyalty

Published 5th January
Apple has announced that its App Store has now generated more than three billion downloads. News flying around about the partnership of Comscore and Flurry has brought something quite alarming into the open; iPhone and Android Applications for many organisations actually today represent a very poor investment.
Why? Retention of users to iPhone and Android applications appears to [...]


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2010 battle: iPhone vs Android – don’t write Microsoft off just yet

Published 18th December
I earlier came across an article titled ‘Is 2010 going to be the year of the greatest battle yet, Android v iPhone?’. I have taken the decision not to share as in short, No it is not!
It is amazing to see so many supposed intelligent people being taken in by the iPhone and [...]


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Morgan Stanley: Mobile Internet reports 2009

Published 16th December
Morgan Stanley has released  two reports about the mobile internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a 424 page report which explores 8 major themes; and ‘The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes,’ a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in the report. We have embedded both documents below, along with the Report set-up [...]


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Worldwide Mobile Device Sales on Pace for Flat Growth in 2009

Published 15th December
Analyst firm Gartner has supported Nokia’s view of an upturn in the mobile device market next year, forecasting a 9 percent year-on-year increase in sales compared to 2009. Gartner’s prediction allies with Nokia’s belief that the mobile device market will rise 10 percent next year compared to 2009.
Stronger than expected sales in Western [...]


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