The best way of understanding the recent changes in mobile billing is to think of the mobile content industry as an oil tanker. Previously, it has been moving in a northerly direction in the Premium SMS sea. But the captain (think of mobile operators here) has given the order and now our oil [...]
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Nov 17
bangoandy
Gartner research reveals that in Q2 2008, 10.5% of all phones sold worldwide was a Smartphone. While it’s great to see functionality rich browsers on mobile devices along with big screens and fast connections, the problem with emulating PC browsing is that it dumbs down the potential for mobile commerce.
On the mobile web today [...]
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Oct 16
martinharris
Vive La France! Well as long as you are happy with the French “Gallery”.
France has a unique structure for mobile content with the Walled Gardens of their operator portals surrounded by a Fortified Field called “Gallery”. This is not true off-portal as there is a strict approval procedure which is run by the mobile operators. [...]
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Oct 09
Vanessa Daly
A basic rule of economics is that if you want to grow the size of the market then you need to make it attractive for people to invest and do business - and by attractive, we are talking about rewarding businesses financially. In the mobile content business, the most effective lever you can apply is [...]
