Nic Fildes from the Dow Jones recently wrote an interesting article on the shifting advertising practices of European mobile phone companies.
Mobile companies have historically spent the largest amount of their marketing budgets on sponsoring sporting events and sports teams. However, this may be changing as these companies are drastically increasing the advertising budgets for […]

Reports on the mobile industry from around 2000 predicted that adult content on mobile devices, as well as mobile content in general, would be key revenue sources for mobile phone operators. The industry has seen exceptional content revenues from ringtones and SMS but has only seen modest development in other areas of mobile content. […]

This is a short story, but one that hardcore members of the gaming industry and fans are sure to like.
In a Croatian car magazine Auto Klub, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi, the man behind the Gran Turismo franchise, revealed that the 5th iteration of the series will be released in 2007 on the PS3. […]

Analysts are expecting Intel and Research in Motion (RIMM), manufacturer of the Blackberry) to announce a new partnership at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. As part of the deal, RIMM will begin to use Intel’s low-power communication chips and will help Intel promote its WiMax long-distance protocol.

The WiMax wireless […]

Mobile content/game developer and publisher Glu Mobile (formerly Sorrent, Inc. and Macrospace Ltd.) has received a $7.5 million investment from Time Warner. This follows the $20 million in follow-on venture capital funding round in May led by Granite Global Ventures, with participation from BA Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Globespan Capital Partners and Sienna […]

Nanotechnologists at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and an Australian colleague have produced transparent carbon nanotube sheets that are stronger than the same-weight steel sheets.
Component strength is extremely important for many applications and tested strength of the new material already exceeds the strongest steel sheets and Mylar and Kapton sheets used for ultralight air […]

Vindigo and Zingy were both acquired by the Japanese mobile content company For-Side.com last year. For-Side.com representatives have talked for months about the possibility of rolling up U.S. operations under the Zingy brand, and the consolidation of Vindigo appears to be the first step. It is unclear of additional For-Side companies such as […]

It looks like Google is finally moving into the Instant Messenger (IM) and VOIP arena with an upcoming release of Google Talk. The L.A. Times is quoting a source close to the services that said that Google will launch the services soon, possibly as early as this week.
The discussion of a Google IM began […]

To date, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, and numerous cities (e.g. Chicago) have various bans on the use of cellphones. In effect this week, a new Colorado law bans teenager drivers from talking on cellphones while driving. This Colorado law only targets new drivers who must have an […]

Boost Mobile has partnered with Blister Entertainment to offer the first two location based games offered nationwide on a commercial basis in the United States. Swordfish and Torpedo Bay transform the phone into a window into a new virtual world.

The Technology Suits issued a call earlier this year for more innovation in the location based gaming arena, and Blister has answered the call first for the United States. Several of us here also know the Blister team quite well and are happy to see their progress. Now a little about the games:

News began to circulate last week about a preliminary meeting between Skype and BSkyB, a News Corp satellite unit, to discuss an acquisition by News Corp. News Corp, which includes holdings such as the Fox media outlets, is seeking to expand itself into the online world, but the estimated $3+ billion price tag for […]

Qualcomm has purchased Elata to integrate the British company’s content delivery system for $57 million in cash. Elata’s delivery system, called ‘Senses’, allows carriers to bundle many different types of mobile content and deliver them over-the-air (OTA), such as ringtones, wallpapers, BREW, Java, streaming video and other files.
‘Senses’ is claimed to work […]

Microsoft has promised for months that the Xbox 360 will be available for the 2005 holiday season, and today, the company has moved one step closer to that goal.
Microsoft released packaging detail on the Xbox 360, its price and confirmation on a release this year. The next-gen system will be available in […]

Google has acquired Android Inc. Little concrete information is known about Android except that the company is a 22-month-old startup based in Palo Alto, which has been working on applications related to mobile devices and cell phones.
Android co-founder Andy Rubin has a former background with mobile device maker Danger Inc. Two months before the […]

A research note fro Safa Raschtchy, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, suggests that Yahoo! Will release a competitor to Skype using peer-to-peer technologies to offer VoIP within the next few weeks.
Yahoo! Has offered voice communications through its messaging service for quite sometime, but the recent acquisition of Dialpad may have been provided the company the […]