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Interview: Head of Search, Nokia: Jussi-Pekka Partanen, Mobile Search Not Just About The Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 19 May 2008 06:45 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is happy to leave mobile web search to the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo’s of the world, according to its head of search Jussi-Pekka Partanen. As he…

MoComment: The Top Ten Marketing Mistakes Made By Operators Today - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 28 Apr 2008 09:00 AM PST

This is the latest in our “MoComment” section, which has guest essays and commentary from industry players. If you’re interested in writing about an issue related to mobile content, send…

MoComment: The Money in Mobile Advertising CPMs - 9 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 14 Feb 2008 07:36 PM PST

[by Chetan Sharma] At least half a dozen press releases popped up during the writing of this book claiming a $50 or $60 and higher CPM rate for mobile ads.…

Consumers Complain They Can’t Find Mobile Games - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 25 Jan 2008 05:28 AM PST

One of the big concerns to emerge out of the Mobile Gaming Forum held the last couple of days in London was how to reach consumers. In a consumer panel…

Operators and Games Publishers Still Wary Of Ad-Funded Mobile Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 25 Jan 2008 02:20 AM PST

Can ad-funded mobile games provide the mobile gaming industry with the revenues it’s seeking? Consumers have long been trained on the internet to want content for free, and subsidizing games…

Google Mobile Web Dominance Inevitable Or “Prisoner Of Its Page Rank Algorithm”? - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 18 Jan 2008 05:01 AM PST

Is Google’s dominance on the mobile web a foregone conclusion? That was the question being raised time and time again at the Visiongain Mobile Search Conference yesterday in London. With…

2007: A Retrospective Of My Predictions - 3 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 01 Jan 2008 06:44 AM PST

As dawn breaks on 2008 it’s a good time to think back over the past year, reflect on what has, hasn’t and might have been, and tally up the hits…

2007 Review: Big Web Brands In Mobile Have Strong Effect - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Dec 2007 07:18 AM PST

To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the strongest effect…

MoComment: Google Should Follow Apple, Not Disney - 6 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 02 Oct 2007 11:05 PM PST

What is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinking? I’m not being facetious, I really want to know… The company has a lot of mobile services available, and there are quite a few…

Interview: Graeme Ferguson, MD, Global Content, Picsel: Paying For Exclusivity ‘Load Of Bollocks’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 02 Oct 2007 03:53 AM PST

From our paidContentUK site: Mobile content may be a long way off from making healthy profits and revenues, but all the big players—from operators and consumer electronics giants, to content…

MocoInterview: Josh Levine, Crush Or Flush On Carrier Deals For Social Networks - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 27 Sep 2007 11:50 PM PST

Icebreaker recently announced a deal with AT&T to put its mobile social network service Crush or Flush on the carrier’s portal, the biggest deal it has pulled off to date.…

Audio: LA Mid-Year Digital Media Review - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 29 Jul 2007 07:08 PM PST

Our LA Mid-Year Digital Media Review Panel at the WGA Theater last week featured five execs who discussed a range of issues in the digital media industry, and included: Deanna…

MocoInterview: Doug Craig, VP Programming Discovery - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 May 2007 08:49 AM PST

Discovery recently announced a new set of mobile series that will run on Sprint, Amp’d, MobiTV, SmartVideo and Modeo, and I caught up with Doug Craig, VP of Programming for…

MoComment: The View From The Bottom - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 25 Mar 2007 10:44 AM PST

Ed: This is the latest in our “MoComment” section, which has guest essays and commentary from industry players. If you’re interested in writing about an issue related to mobile content…

MoComment: Ad Supported Mobile Games: Don’t Believe the Hype - 8 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 Mar 2007 03:52 PM PST

Ed: We are restarting our “MoComment” section, which has guest essays and commentary from industry players. If you’re interested in writing about an issue related to mobile content industry, send…

The Official MocoNews Predictions For 2007 - 3 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 21 Jan 2007 07:08 PM PST

And now for my inevitable predictions for 2007—they’re a little bit late because I decided to see if Apple would launch an iPhone at MacWorld...no point predicting something that’s only…

Mobile TV Has Yet To Make Its Mark, Study Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 16 Jan 2007 10:40 AM PST

It’s looking to be another lacklustre year for mobile TV, with little commercial success, despite the significant sums of money companies are currently pumping into it, according to Deloitte’s 2007…

The Digital Consumer: Digital & Mobile Media Trends in 2007 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Jan 2007 07:19 PM PST

Oppenheimer & Co., the investment bank, has come out with a 92-page digital media research report from its analysts, examining what they consider the top 10 themes for 2007, and…

Will 2007 Be “The” Year for Mobile Games? 10 Trends Could Change All The Rules - 2 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 02 Jan 2007 06:48 AM PST

Unlike many 2007 predictions that claim things will happen and then don’t say why, this top ten list from PocketGamer covers all the bases. It expects 2007 to be the…

Audio Interview: Jamba’s Markus Berger-de Leon On Community Plans - 5 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Thu 21 Dec 2006 05:43 PM PST

Is the ringtone dead? One way or the other - it’s no concern to Verisign’s Germany-based Jamba (also known as Jamster outside Germany). The company - widely recognized as the…

InfoWorlds’ Mobile Predictions For 2007 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 21 Dec 2006 02:43 PM PST

Infoworld has released its predictions for 2007 for the mobile and wireless market. They predict more wireless networks (WiFi and WiMax) competing for the mobile dollar, but also being bundled…

Handango’s Smartphone Predictions For 2007 - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 12 Dec 2006 04:11 AM PST

Handango has released some predictions for the smartphone market in 2007, and predictably it predicts the smartphone market to do very well. It does offer stats to back up most…

Mobile Industry Mostly Positive—TV Seen As Most Promising New Tech - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 22 Nov 2006 08:29 AM PST

Informa Telecoms & Media has launched its annual Mobile Market Status report for 2007, which includes a survey of more than 1,800 senion industry professionals. Within the whole industry 65%…

Gameloft On Metrics, Brand, And Why They’re #2 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 04 Sep 2006 05:10 PM PST

I had a pre-CTIA talk with Gonzague de Vallois, Vice-President of Worldwide Publishing of Gameloft to talk about the mobile game businessâ€¦naturally we talked about how to promote mobile games…

MocoInterview: Tom Kennedy, Chairman of the Digital Content Industry Action Agenda - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 18 May 2006 02:06 PM PST

The final person I interviewed in Australia was Tom Kennedy, CEO of MediaZoo and chairman of the Australian Digital Content Industry Action Agenda, “an industry-led and Government-supported initiative. Its purpose…