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@ London Calling: Bundled Music Services “Commoditizing” Music? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 20 Jun 2008 03:07 PM PST

At the London Calling music conference on Thursday, there was little doubt among the panel assembled to discuss the value of music on mobiles that cell phones would one day…

WWDC: UK’s O2 Offers 3G iPhone Free On Top Tariffs; Adds PAYG Option - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 10 Jun 2008 03:00 AM PST

O2 and Carphone Warehouse have confirmed they will offer both versions of Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) new 3G iPhone, announced Monday evening. Suggesting Apple has allowed O2 a degree of subsidisation,…

WWDC: Check In Monday For Live Coverage At Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 06 Jun 2008 03:40 PM PST

On Monday, I’ll be in San Francisco to cover Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference at the Moscone Center, which will kick off with a keynote at 10 a.m. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

EconAds: Our Full Coverage In Links - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 04 Jun 2008 09:29 PM PST

On Tuesday we had our first EconAds half-day seminar at NYC’s New World Stages, where we covered topics ranging from trends and opportunities in online advertising to how this content…

@ WAN: Mobile Journalism: Can Publishers Find Their MoJo? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 03 Jun 2008 05:35 AM PST

A panel I chaired at the World Editors Forum at Gothenburg, Sweden, heard how Reuters reporters are using “MoJo” toolkits to gather news, how Telegraph.co.uk is planning to start a…

@ D6: Kevin Martin, Chairman, FCC, and Lowell McAdam, CEO, VZW: The “is” of Broadband & Open Access - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 May 2008 12:29 PM PST

The chairman of FCC, Kevin Martin, is under the fire right away, speaking at the D conference..he is asked about how U.S. is falling behind in broadband: “You have to…

What’s Happening At Jamba? Strategic Options? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 09:41 PM PST

What will happen tomorrow at Jamba? The mobile content company which is majority owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and rest owned by Verisign, has a big meeting tomorrow, according…

@ NCTA: Comcast’s Roberts: Pivot Was A ‘Me-Too’ Service Cable Ops Weren’t Vested In, Didn’t Need - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 18 May 2008 12:52 PM PST

I’m in New Orleans at The Cable Show, where the Clearwire-Sprint (NYSE: S) WiMax JV owns some of the biggest buzz. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts and Intel (NSDQ:…

@ Digital Hollywood: iPhone, LBS And Foreign Markets Influencing Mobile Landscape - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 06 May 2008 06:31 PM PST

I spent the day at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel for Digital Hollywood, a four-day conference jampacked with panels and discussions covering everything from digital media content and advertising, to mobile…

@ EconSM: Full Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 29 Apr 2008 11:47 PM PST

Today we had our second annual Economics of Social Media conference. The jampacked event began Monday night with our first panel and mixer at Casa del Mar in Santa Monica,…

@ EconSM: Taking Social Media To Mobile Is An Experimentation For Some; Risks Exist - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:53 PM PST

Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels and speakers on the topic of…

@ CTIA: Advertising Bits: Vodafone May Share Ad Revs With Subs; Virgin’s Sugar Mama; and Forum Nokia - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 06:08 PM PST

Two years ago at CTIA, only a few companies would even mumble the words “mobile advertising,” but now it’s a part of everyone’s vernacular. Truthfully, that makes it a lot…

@ CTIA: The Top 10 Coolest Things At CTIA 2008 - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 11:46 AM PST

Every year at CTIA, I cruise the show floor to see the coolest things—from applications to handsets. By no means can this be a comprehensive list, after all in Las…

@ CTIA: Playboy Launches Mobile Initatives At Hugh Hefner’s Sky Villa - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 09:30 AM PST

One of the most controversial mobile content plays is pornography, and last week at CTIA, arguably the biggest name—Playboy (NYSE: PLA)—launched a series of mobile initiatives. Perhaps because of the…

@ CTIA: Interview: Verizon’s Open-Access Leader Tony Lewis: ‘You are going to hear a lot of Yeses.’ - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:37 PM PST

This week, I caught up with Tony Lewis, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless’ newly-appointed VP of Open Development, at CTIA to talk to him about what the company’s plans are for…

Our Coverage Of CTIA - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:36 PM PST

Our publisher and co-editor Rafat Ali along with our mocoNews.net principal correspondent Tricia Duryee have been in Las Vegas, covering the global tech event that is CTIA Wireless. Some highlights:…

@ CTIA: Quiet Period Is Ending; Qualcomm, Verizon And Others Address Spectrum Auction - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:29 PM PST

The high-profile spectrum auction ended two weeks ago, but the really interesting information is only starting to come out now that the quiet period has ended. The FCC, which garnered…

@ CTIA: Nokia Quietly Launches N-Gage; Details From the Show Floor - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:20 PM PST

After months of anticipation on when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would launch its gaming platform called N-Gage, the world’s largest handset maker did it quietly this morning when it let the…

@ CTIA: Video Interview With Vishal Gondal, CEO, Indiagames: Not a Big Fan of Mobile Advertising - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:26 PM PST

At the big CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas this week, I did a short video interview with Vishal Gondal, the CEO of Indiagames, the big mobile and online gaming…

@ CTIA: This Year Consumer Voice Recognition Gains Momentum - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 11:59 AM PST

With the end of CTIA Wireless 2008 coming to a close in a couple hours, you can start to see the trends emerging in the industry. One of the ones…

@ CTIA: AT&T Hints 3G iPhone ‘Months’ Away; Sprint’s Not A Threat; Android Is Good - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:54 PM PST

Today, AT&T (NYSE: T) hosted a press conference to catch all the reporters up to speed on the carrier’s recent initiatives, and once the faucet started to open, the news…

@ CTIA: Video Interview With Jai Jaisimha, VP, AOL Mobile: The Open Development Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:34 PM PST

At CTIA, I spoke to Jai Jaisimha, the AOL (NYSE: TWX) VP for mobile product and technology development, and the video is embedded below. He talked about AOL’s move into…

CTIA Wire: Day Two: Zed-9 Squared; XM-QuickPlay; Verizon-TMZ; RealNetworks’ Ringback - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:25 PM PST

-- 9 Squared and Zed Worldwide combine operations: 9 Squared unveiled plans to formally combine operations with mobile entertainment company Zed Worldwide, with Zed continuing to offer the products originally…

Updated: @ CTIA: Keynote Day Two: Yahoo’s Marco Boerries Launches OneSearch 2.0 - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 10:30 AM PST

Following Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) Arun Sarin, Yahoo’s EVP of Connected Life Marco Boerries came on stage to tell the audience about its various mobile phone products. As part of his…

@ CTIA: Day Two: Keynote: Vodafone CEO Sarin: ‘Don’t Allow Carriers To Become Bit Pipes’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 09:02 AM PST

In this morning’s keynote, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin said he has the ability to see trends worldwide in the mobile industry because Vodafone covers 30 countries and 250…