The campaign that IBM is currently promoting is “Let’s build a smarter planet”. I think it’s a very nice way of how to present visions, ideas, and both real realized case studies in real life. Definitely an innovative thing to do. Part of this campaign is how IBM is helping the mobile industry in multiple areas. I will try to get you in what IBM’s ideas are on mobile. Paul Bloom, CTO of telecommunications research at IBM answered some questions on mobile matters.... Read full article

Are you a company in the field of media, and thinking of which phones to buy to your employees? Despite the sexiness and likeliness of the phone, which is awsome, you should also consider the following reasons:... Read full article

Mobile marketing has several key barriers, that people already working in marketing and mobile marketing often don’t realize. I believe this is why on some markets, mobile services and mobile marketing are much ahead from other countries.... Read full article

Apple, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Android - who is respecting current mobile web standards, in these highly competing times on Appstores? I am a big fan of standards, my previous company over the term of its 6 year existence did so many ports of applications for different devices, that it could maybe be up to 100 000 unique ports for unique handsets… It was horrible, and we couldn’t do anything to work with it.... Read full article

I was so excited when I first saw Google Latitude, that words cannot describe the feeling fully. I was thought, finally, when I am picking up a call from someone, I can find him easily. I was thinking this would be the end to those horrible phone calls that you spend trying to navigate a person, who doesn’t even bloody know where they are themselves.... Read full article

iPhone AppStore, Android Market, Nokia Ovi, and thousands of AppStores from third parties are being opened worldwide. That is the no-limit entertainment, that is going to go mass-market in the following 2 years. Mobile applications and services on mobile web are slowly becoming a dominant feature of these platforms, and soon will become a standard of every mobile phone sold. This means that any phone sold in the next quarters will be a browsing and mobile service phone. Subsequently, there is a higher and higher chance that every time a new phone is sold, that a new mobile services user was just born. With the iPhone, it’s definitely like that, and if there is something that we can’t take from Apple it is that they have supported this heavily.... Read full article

We just got an e-mail over from the people at Google Android Market. So the UK now supports paid applications, also via credit card and Google checkout. Next in line are Germany and Austria. I guess other markets like Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, France, and Singapore will have to wait (even though its just credit card billing anyway). Also Google informs us that the HTC Dream will be available in Orange starting March 15.... Read full article

Mobhappy informs, that Facebook and Nokia are in talks about cooperation and embedding the Nokia devices even more with Facebook features - maybe even phonebook! But will Nokia finally do this with Facebook, or decide to build a new, independent social network?... Read full article

I have been asked many times this year, what I think the next big thing in mobile is - well I have decided, end of the year, to write a short article about it, it reflects a lot of opinions I already wrote down in my 2009 predictions, so make sure you read it before proceeding. Mobile phones are getting better and better, they can do e-mails, they can do TV, and many other interesting things. But what will people use and what will become the next great revenue generator? ... Read full article