Blogs
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Mobile health: why should it just be for the rich people with expensive smartphones?
Submitted by Editor on 3 May, 2011 - 11:55.When it comes to delivering remote healthcare or wellbeing services, nothing – print, radio, TV or even PC – rivals the cell phone.
• At the end of 2010 there were 5.3 billion mobile subscriptions (and counting) – that’s equivalent to 77 percent of the world’s population.
• Mobile phones are personal, always on, always with the patient and location-aware. -
Mobile money: it’s a bit like cash, but with an audit trail
Submitted by Editor on 13 April, 2011 - 12:00.One attribute of mobile payments that is rarely explored is the audit trail – each and every transaction is recorded. Whether you’re paying for a chocolate bar, a mobile app, a phone call, a ride on public transport, settling a bill, donating to charity, paying your taxes, cashing in an m-coupon, transferring money or gaining entry to an event with an m-ticket it’s all recorded.
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Android looks like the big winner from Nokia’s plan to drop the Symbian OS. So should your mobile strategy now focus on Android?
Submitted by Editor on 31 March, 2011 - 10:13.
UPDATED 08 April 2011: to include Gartner’s projections for smartphone sales. Confirms IDC’s expectation that Android will become the dominant smartphone operating system, now Nokia has abandoned Symbian.
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Carnival of the Mobilists #247: best mobile blogging of the past month
Submitted by Editor on 21 March, 2011 - 12:00.Mobile in the disaster zone
The horrifying earthquake/tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011, has spurred no shortage of mobile-related stories among journalists/bloggers. Of these, two mobile bloggers stand out: -
Win free tickets for the Mobile Research Conference and Awards (London, April 18-19, 2011)
Submitted by Editor on 27 February, 2011 - 14:41.
• UPDATE 15 March, 2011: this competition is now closed.
Two lucky mobiThinking readers can win free tickets for the Mobile Research Conference (MRC) and the MRC Awards which take place on April 18-19 in London. Just email us with the correct answer to these questions: -
Mobile Web first – the consensus from mobile experts and global brands… pinch me, I must be dreaming
Submitted by Editor on 14 February, 2011 - 07:00.In 2010, the agenda and presentations at mobile conferences (also mobile awards) tended to focus more on mobile download apps than mobile Web or messaging. This isn’t surprising considering the huge sums that brands had invested in developing and then promoting these apps through advertising and PR/media coverage; not to mention the profits that agencies (often found on the conference rostrum) of all descriptions have made off the back of app mania.
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Carnival of the Mobilists: the monthly round up of the best in mobile blogging
Submitted by Editor on 27 January, 2011 - 11:57.Head over to Tego Interactive to read January’s Carnival of the Mobilists. The excellent line up includes articles from Dennis Bournique/WapReview, Antoine RJ Wright, Chetan Sharma, Tomi Ahonen, Mark Bridge/fonecast.com, Ram Krishnan/Movik Networks, Jamie Wells/Wikimobidex, Cynthia Artin/MSearchGroove and mobiThinking’s guides to m-research and mobile barcodes. It’s an honor.
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Win free tickets for M-Days (Frankfurt, Germany, January 27-28, 2011)
Submitted by Editor on 20 January, 2011 - 22:12.Two lucky mobiThinking readers can win free tickets for the M-Days conference in Frankfurt next week on January 27-28. The first two people 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 24 to respond.
- The M-Days conference is conducted in what language: a) English; b) German; c) partly in German, partly in English; or d) Esperanto?
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The reality of publishing newspapers and magazines for Apple’s iPad – a New York Times article
Submitted by Editor on 18 January, 2011 - 13:03.With all big news and magazine publishers investing considerable funds into the applications for the iPad, Apple’s tablet computer, it is interesting to read an article in a major newspaper, The New York Times (which incidentally has an iPad app), about the reality of the iPad/App store business model.
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