Blogs
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How interested are companies in mobile Web apps? Very…
Submitted by Editor on 28 March, 2012 - 15:27.Mary Beth Christie, online product management director, Financial Times, spends 2 hours each week on the phone answering queries from companies and journalists eager to pick their brains on their experiences with bringing the FT Web app to market. That’s on top of the time she and her colleagues spend on conference stages sharing their knowledge.
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Carnival of the Mobilists #264 – the best of mobile blogging
Submitted by Editor on 13 March, 2012 - 08:22.It’s two for the price of one – as the itinerant Carnival of the Mobilists touches down at mobiThinking, we bring you an eclectic mix of the best mobile blogs for the first two weeks of March.
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Carling Black Label Cup “Be the Coach” mobile campaign – innovative, inclusive and effective
Submitted by Editor on 6 March, 2012 - 12:00.You don’t have to be a sports fan to appreciate the genius of this ground-breaking campaign from Brandtone and Ogilvy South Africa. Carling Black Label, a beer from South African Breweries (SAB), used mobile voting to allow supporters to select the team and make live substitutions in a huge South African soccer game.
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The top mobile companies in the world in 2011
Submitted by Editor on 27 February, 2012 - 14:34.Tomi Ahonen (blogger, author, speaker etc) has been crunching numbers and has come up with the world's largest companies in mobile, having stripped away other revenues. No small task.
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The cost of promoting apps continues to rise, but has Apple’s iAd been missing out on the app-promotion gravy train?
Submitted by Editor on 16 February, 2012 - 21:10.Apple’s iAd pricing is now 10 percent of launch price. Advertisers are no longer double-charged. Developers get a better share. What took Apple so long to see reason?
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2011 handset and smartphone sales statistics worldwide: the big picture
Submitted by Editor on 10 February, 2012 - 11:16.There were almost half a billion smartphones shipped globally in 2011, according to IDC, Strategy Analytics and Canalys (Gartner’s stats are still to come). But this is just a small part of mobile phone picture.
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Global mobile Web use doubles in a year: StatCounter
Submitted by Editor on 6 February, 2012 - 21:47.In January 2012, 8.49 percent of Website hits/pageviews come from a handheld mobile device, according to StatCounter, using stats aggregated from the 3 million sites that use its free Web analytics tool. This time last year it was 4.3 percent. Growth in mobile Web penetration is strongest in Asia and Africa, where PC penetration is lower than in North America or Europe.
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BLN Money in Mobile Award: winners announced…
Submitted by Editor on 3 February, 2012 - 16:14.MARCH 22 UPDATE – Check out: Money in Mobile Awards 2012 – winners and finalists with videos and summaries.
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Win a free ticket for M-Days (Frankfurt, Germany, February 1-2, 2012)
Submitted by Editor on 25 January, 2012 - 12:37.Congratulations to Franklin Tchakounte, PHD Student, University of Breme, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon, the winner of the free pass for M-Days.
One lucky mobiThinking reader can win a free ticket for the M-Days conference in Frankfurt next week on February 1-2, 2012.The first person to email us with the correct answers to the following questions will win the conference passes. But hurry, you only have until the Monday, January 30 to respond.
