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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…

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%…

UK Mobile Content Market To Treble To Â£1.14 Billion by 2010 - 0 Comments
Posted By Sahad PV - Wed 22 Mar 2006 05:04 AM PST

Just when a KPMG survey predicted a gloomy picture for mobile content worldwide, here is a study from PayPal and Datamonitor that says that the mobile services download market in…

Deloitte Predictions For 2006 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 03 Feb 2006 08:03 AM PST

Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications industry group is not predicting a rosy 2006 for the telecoms sector. It predicts that 3G will not grow enough to make investments in the…

2006 Mobile Marketing Predictions—Michael Becker, iLoop Mobile CTO - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 01 Feb 2006 02:03 PM PST

iLoop CTO Michael Becker has made some predictions for mobile marketing in the coming year...the company is obviously involved in the space, but we can see if iLoop puts its…

My Inevitable Predictions For 2006 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 09 Jan 2006 09:01 AM PST

Every pundit has to do them, so here are mine: My 12 predictions for what will occur in the mobile content space in the coming 12 months (well, 11 months…

2005 Mobile Zeitgeist - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 08 Jan 2006 06:02 PM PST

4INFO has released the top 25 searches on its mobile search service in 2005...due to the methodology it’s skewed towards sports, but anyway…

2005—The Year That Anticipated 2006 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 04 Jan 2006 04:01 PM PST

John Tanner points out that a lot of the technologies that were talked about throughout 2005 will actually be deployed and used in 2006...later in the article he admitted a…

Advertisers Keen On Mobile Content For 2006 (reg required) - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 04 Jan 2006 05:02 AM PST

In his 2006 predictions for advertising newsletter Online Spin Tom Hespos made two mobile predictions (three if you count podcasts getting more distribution methods). The first is that satellite radio…

The Year Of The Digital Citizen - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 02 Jan 2006 09:02 AM PST

The BBC has an article about the way citizens became more involved in reporting things, and the mobile played a big part in that. “Crucially, what 2005 proved was that…

10 Things To Look For This Year In Mobile Computing - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 02 Jan 2006 09:02 AM PST

More predictions, these focussed on mobile computing which is increasingly including mobile phones. Of pertinent interest: -- AJAX will change the way developers look at making web applications. -- Asian…

2005: The Predictions That Were And Weren’t - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 22 Dec 2005 06:13 PM PST

[by James Pearce] At the beginning of the year I made some predictions about the mobile content market, and although 2006 isn’t quite finished it’s close enough that we can…

2006: Year Of Failures - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Dec 2005 11:12 AM PST

ABI Research has released a list of mobile features and technologies that won’t be a hit in 2006...it’s a fairly safe way to go, just take everything that has received…

No Room For The Little Guy - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 20 Dec 2005 07:13 AM PST

Peter Kafka from Forbes has made some predictions, including the statement that investors in US mobile content startups are in for a nasty surprise… Investors are betting big money on…

Advertising Predictions For 2006 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 Dec 2005 03:13 PM PST

The OnlineSpin newsletter has sent a set of predictions for 2006… it’s focused on all digital advertising/content but a lot of what it says applies to the mobile market. The…

The End Of Handset Subsidies? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 Nov 2005 03:12 PM PST

This PC Pro story has brought to mind something else from the Informa survey I reported on last week. Based on over 1,000 industry survey responses, Informa found that 60…

2006: Crunch Time For Mobile Firms - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Nov 2005 10:12 AM PST

Informa has predicted a difficult 2006 for mobile operators… “Next year will be difficult for mobile companies as their traditional business model comes under threat, Arpu continues to fall and…

Russell Beattie’s Mobile Predictions - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 21 Nov 2005 07:12 AM PST

Russell Beattie has put up his 2005 wrap-up/2006 predictions about mobile handsets. Some headings: Mobile Video is Here! (And Then Some), Mobile Music is NOT Here… He has gone against…