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BBC Worldwide Buys Travel Guide Company Lonely Planet - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 30 Sep 2007 11:59 PM PST

From paidContent:UK: BBC Worldwide, the international commercial arm of BBC, has bought Lonely Planet, the travel information group founded in Australia in 1972, for an undisclosed sum. Founders Tony and…

NZ-Based Mobile Marketing Firm Hyperfactory Sells Stake To Consortium - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 30 Sep 2007 10:23 PM PST

New Zealand-based mobile marketing agency The Hyperfactory has sold a “substantial” stake in itself to a syndicate of investors, led by the two founder of 42Belo (NYSE: BLC)w, a local…

Australians Working On Mobile Advertising Metrics - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 26 Sep 2007 04:41 PM PST

The Australian industry is working to get an agreement on the measurement of mobile ads by the end of the year, with mobile phone carriers, publishers of content, broadcasters and…

Australians Locked Out Of MySpace Mobile Web - 6 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 25 Sep 2007 07:38 PM PST

That didn’t take very long… the free-for-all ad-funded MySpace Mobile page announced on monday is no longer accessable from Australia. It worked for a while, but “by lunchtime, following queries…

Vodafone Australia Releases Consumer Charter For Mobile Advertising - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 19 Sep 2007 07:04 PM PST

Vodafone Australia has released a consumer charter for mobile advertising—it wants other carriers to adopt it but they seem reluctant to just accept it without stamping on their own identity.…

NineMSN Banking On Mobile Advertising For Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 17 Sep 2007 07:07 AM PST

Tony Faure, the CEO of NineMSN (the Australian JV between Microsoft and Channel 9) has predicted that “snackable” mobile content would quickly develop into a significant growth generator within a…

Telcogames Acquires Mobile Multiplayer Games Firm Viva La Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 30 Aug 2007 11:18 AM PST

Telcogames, a London-based mobile gaming firm, has bought Australian mobile multiplayer gaming firm Viva La Mobile, for an undisclosed sum. VLM’s Redstar multiplayer platform has been in deployment for the…

Bluepulse Gets $6 Million First Round Funding, Moves To Silicon Valley - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 28 Aug 2007 05:19 AM PST

Australian mobile social networking company Bluepulse has announced it has raised $6 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners in its first round of funding. It’s also making a leap across the…

Earnings: 3 Australia Customers Buying Content Up 31 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 22 Aug 2007 06:23 PM PST

Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (3) has released its first half results for the six months ending June 30th. Revenue increased 29.7 percent year-on-year to to AU$549.2 million (US$446.6 million) and its…

Australian Recording Industry Association Branded Moto Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 21 Aug 2007 07:03 PM PST

The Australian Recording Industry Assocation (ARIA) has teamed up with Motorola to launch an ARIA-branded handset in Australia, the attraction being “a new music button on the main menu, allowing…

Australian Mobile Content Market Grows, But Off A Very Small Base: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 19 Aug 2007 05:12 AM PST

The Australian mobile content market has seen significant increases in carrier portal services over 2006 and 2007, but are still far below the premium SMS (PSMS) market. The PSMS market…

Mobile TV Techonology Will Be Region Specific - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 16 Aug 2007 12:42 AM PST

IMS Research has made the (fairly safe) prediction that mobile TV technologies will be very regional in coming years. So, by 2011, 60 percent of worldwide mediaFLO subscribers will be…

Telstra Touts Strong 3G Uptake, Content Increase - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 08 Aug 2007 07:10 AM PST

Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo has touted strong growth in the companies 3G subscriber, claiming it increased by more than 530 percent in the 12 months to June 30, to more…

Telstra Launches BigPond TV On 3G - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 20 Jul 2007 02:29 AM PST

Australian incumbent Telstra has launched BigPond TV—a mobile TV for its Next G 3G customers. If there’s one thing that can be said about this service, it’s that Telstra hasn’t…

Premium Rate Services Need More Regulation: UK, Australia - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 19 Jul 2007 01:38 AM PST

Authorities in both the UK and Australia have come out saying the mobile premium content and services industry needs more regulation. UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has issued a report into…

Now Telstra Abandons I-Mode - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 17 Jul 2007 01:42 PM PST

Just after O2 said it was going to stop selling new i-mode handsets (but support the current crop for two years) Australian incumbent Telstra has announced it is ending the…

Australian Idol Launches Mobile Community; AFL Team Launches Mobile Chat - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 26 Jun 2007 08:16 PM PST

Loop Mobile has announced a couple of content deals for its launch on the Australian Stock Exchange today. Australian Idol will launch a mobile community similar on Telstra to the…

Australian Newcomer Launches Free SMS Service, Mulls Over Free Calls - 4 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Fri 15 Jun 2007 02:48 AM PST

Australia’s new entrant mobiK, which took the wraps off its free service in October allowing users to send free Internet to mobile texts (and visa-versa) , has expanded its offer…

@ Mobile Content World: Telstra On Mobile Content, Bullish About Return - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 13 Jun 2007 08:26 PM PST

The first speech at Mobile Content World was by Roberto Vannini, executive managing director of mobile at Telstra, who spoke about repositioning the role of the operator in a totally…

@ Mobile Content World - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 13 Jun 2007 03:10 AM PST

I’m at Mobile Content World Australasia 2007 in Sydney, where I chaired the first day. It has been one of the best conferences I’ve been to in a while (which…

Loop Mobile Oversubscribes For IPO - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 11 Jun 2007 02:34 AM PST

Mobile social networking company Loop Mobile has said that its initial public offering was oversubcribed at the maximum level of AU$5 million. Loop expects to begin trading on the ASX…

New Zealand Telecom In $300 Million Network Switch - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 31 May 2007 05:28 AM PST

Rumors are abound in New Zealand that Telecom New Zealand is about to announce a deal with Alcatel-Lucent to build a GSM network costing NZ$300-400 million (US$221-294 million) according to…

Australian Spectrum Sale Could Be Delayed, Delaying Mobile TV - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 May 2007 07:22 PM PST

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has told a Senate estimates hearing that it was waiting for a government announcement before releasing the sales documents for the upcoming auction…

Voeveo Signs Deal With CD Baby - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 May 2007 05:55 AM PST

New Zealand mobile content marketplace Voeveo has signed a deal with online independant music vendor CD Baby which will mean “users virtually anywhere in the world can download music from…

MTV Australia Launches User-Generated Channel - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 24 May 2007 09:17 AM PST

MTV Australia has launched a new pay television station that allows viewers to upload their own content via mobile phone or internet which will be aired on the network. It’s…