Articles from Robert Andrews

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Technologies: MMS, Mobile Applications, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Security, Mobile Social Networking, Mobile Spam, Operator Services, Smartphones, SMS
Regions: Americas, APAC, EMEA
Standards & Legislation: Congress & FCC, Distracted Driving, Handset Exclusivity

  1. UK Newspapers Want BBC Mobile Apps Blocked For 'Undermining' Them, BBC Disagrees

    Explore Article mocoNews (Feb 18 2010) Mobile Applications , EMEA

    I wondered how long it would be before print media pointed at the BBC’s new smartphone apps plan as another example of expansion in to their commercial territory. The answer: just 24 hours... The Newspaper Publishers Association, in an emailed statement, says its members believe BBC apps “will undermine the commercial sector’s ability to establish an economic model in an emerging but potentially important market ... This, over the long term, will reduce members’ ability to invest in quality journalism.” The NPA already looks like a dog with a bone with this - it says it will ask the regulating ... (Read Full Article)

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  2. That Was Quick: Already, A Fund For iPad App Developers

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jan 28 2010) Mobile Applications

    That Was Quick: Already, A Fund For iPad App Developers Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after Steve Jobs announced an iPad that will support larger-resolution downloadable apps, UK regional development fund Northern Film & Media (NFM) is opening a fund with which it will specifically support iPad app developers. NFM is setting aside £40,000 for the fund; applications close on February 24. That may not sound like much, but consider that the fund has been created for NFM by Ewan McIntosh, the former 4iP investment commissioner who helped Channel 4 launch an iPhone app fund that eventually helped finance AudioBoo, You Booze You Lose and MirrorMe ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Steve Jobs

  3. Survey: Android, iPhone Users Very Similar

    Explore Article mocoNews (Dec 29 2009) Smartphones , EMEA

    Survey: Android, iPhone Users Very Similar Google’s mobile operating system has come a long way in a short time. While iPhone users are more likely to use features like apps and web browsing than those of other smartphones, Android owners are already right up there with them on most counts, according to comScore/Compete research presented by eMarketer... —Owners of each handset are almost exactly as likely to use mobile media, news, apps and social networking; iPhone users are only slightly more likely in each category. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Android   Google

  4. Shazam's Paid App Pays Off As It Aims For 100 Million Users

    Explore Article mocoNews (Dec 21 2009) Mobile Applications

    Shazam's Paid App Pays Off As It Aims For 100 Million Users When free music identifier Shazam, one of iPhone’s flagship apps, launched a paid version in November, many existing users would have been forgiven for being annoyed by a new five-uses-a-month limit on the free old counterpart. But, one month on, the $4.99 (£2.99) Shazam Encore is #2 in iTunes paid music apps chart, the same position as was occupied by the free equivalent. It’s a freemium strategy that appears to be working. Shazam CEO Andrew Fisher won’t detail numbers but tells us: “The uptake of Encore has exceeded our expectations.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Andrew Fisher

  5. Startup Trying Mobile Virtual Gifts With Christmas iPhone App

    Explore Article mocoNews (Nov 25 2009)

    If Playfish can sell for $275 million and Zynga can attract big funding on reports of bigger revenue, there’s clearly life in the virtual goods game. So six Liverpool developers are hoping to emulate the success that pair has had in getting people to pay for things that don’t exist… (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone

  6. iPhone With Your Groceries? Tesco To Sell iPhone

    Explore Article mocoNews (Nov 25 2009) Smartphones , EMEA

    iPhone With Your Groceries? Tesco To Sell iPhone iPhone’s UK carriage strategy is rapidly becoming a free-for-all. After Vodafoneand Orange grabbed deals for the handset, now supermarket giant Tesco emails us to say… “Tesco Mobile, through its joint venture partnership with O2, is pleased to announce that it will shortly introduce iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Tesco Phone Shops and online through Tesco Direct in the UK.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Tesco Mobile   Apple

  7. Orange Cosying With Twitter To Launch TV Tweets, A Twitpic Clone

    Explore Article mocoNews (Nov 17 2009) Mobile Social Networking , EMEA

    Orange Cosying With Twitter To Launch TV Tweets, A Twitpic Clone After Vodafone and then O2, Twitter is now re-enabling in-bound SMS tweets for another UK carrier, Orange, but this deal goes farther than that… (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Orange   Kevin Thau

  8. BBC Bringing Pay-For Mobile Apps To Overseas Users

    Explore Article mocoNews (Oct 7 2009) Mobile Applications

    BBC Worldwide will launch “BBC News and Sport apps on several platforms in the next few months”, BBC.com MD and EVP Luke Bradley-Jones has told us. “It’s very unlikely we’ll move to a charge basis for our generalist news services”—but audience-specific apps will come at a price, for example, “if you’re creating a specialist soccer app forAsia-Pacific”. “We see a much higher willingness to pay for content (on mobile). “We’re going to test a couple of pricepoints ... it’s likely to be in the region of the CNN.com app” ($2). (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone

  9. Al Jazeera Adds Subscription Mobile Video Apps

    Explore Article mocoNews (Oct 5 2009) MMS , Smartphones

    Al Jazeera, still denied TV carriage in the U.S., is expanding its mobile distribution, adding new Windows and Symbian video apps to its recently launched iPhone app and mobile websites. Like the iPhone client, built by Livestation, the new apps, made by Mobiclip, offer the broadcaster’s Arabic and English-language shows live and on-demand. But, unlike the £1.79/$2.99 iPhone version, the additions require a $1.99-a-month monthly subscription (or $5.99 for six months, or $9.99 per year). (Read Full Article)

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  10. Vodafone Unveils '360' Social Phonebook Layer For Samsung, Other Handsets

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 24 2009) Mobile Applications , EMEA

    Vodafone Unveils '360' Social Phonebook Layer For Samsung, Other Handsets Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has unveiled Vodafone 360, and it’s not an app store. The service is first a piece of software, layered on top of handsets’ own OS, that aggregates users’ friends and messaging. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Vodafone   Google

  11. Vodafone Readies 'Vodafone 360' Platform - But What Is It?

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 21 2009) Mobile Applications , Smartphones , EMEA

    Vodafone Readies 'Vodafone 360' Platform - But What Is It? Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) may this week replace its Vodafone live! deck with a suite called Vodafone 360 “that integrates a host of social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, and includes a store of applications”, Guardian.co.uk says. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Twitter   Android

  12. Mobile's Leading Web Browser Opera Updates With New Features

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 16 2009) Smartphones

    Norwegian browser maker Opera has opened BlackBerry beta testing for version five of its Opera Mini mobile software, adding the “speed dial”, tab and password manager that it already has on the PC desktop. (Read Full Article)

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  13. Mobile Social App Maker Xumii Bought By Swiss Myriad Group

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 15 2009)

    Mobile Social App Maker Xumii Bought By Swiss Myriad Group Zurich-based mobile middleware maker Myriad Group is getting itself in to the sexier end of the business, acquiring San Mateo, California-based mobile social network aggregator developer Xumii for an undisclosed sum. Myriad, which was formed when Esmertec bought Purple Labs in March, has so far been pitching products like its mobile web browser and Java runtimes. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Twitter   Google

  14. T-Mobile, Orange Agree Uk Jv, Creating Britain's Biggest Carrier

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 8 2009) EMEA

    T-Mobile, Orange Agree Uk Jv, Creating Britain's Biggest Carrier What do you get when you mix pink and orange? Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) has sorted the future of its troublesome UK mobile unit T-Mobile by agreeing to wrap it in to a 50/50 JV with France Telecom’s Orange UK, making Britain’s largest network. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   T-Mobile   Deutsche Telekom   Tom Alexander

  15. Industry Moves: SpinVox Finally Gets A Finance Chief, From Indian Off-Shoring Company

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 2 2009) Americas

    Industry Moves: SpinVox Finally Gets A Finance Chief, From Indian Off-Shoring Company Voice-to-text firm SpinVox, which recently found over £45 million more to stave off financial problems and has been without a full-time chief financial officer for the last 15 months, has finally hired a replacement, as it tries to get on top of its money issues, paidContent:UK has learned and confirmed. In a move that will interest critics of SpinVox’s model, which employs call centre operatives to transcribe an unknown number voicemails, Manoj Parlar comes from Servista, a European IT company that off-shores its services to India. Parmar has served as its CFO for the last five years. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   SpinVox

  16. Nokia Plugs Location In To Facebook, Relishes 'Underdog' Status

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 2 2009)

    Nokia Plugs Location In To Facebook, Relishes 'Underdog' Status Nokia (NYSE: NOK) used the opening day of its two-day Nokia World gathering in Stuttgart to announce a widget that lets mobile Facebook users add location data and maps to their status updates. It’s a lifecasting plugin for the existing beta Ovi Maps app and uses handsets’ built-in GPS. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nokia World   Nokia   Apple

  17. Nokia Appears To Delays U.S. Comes With Music Roll-Out

    Explore Article mocoNews (Sep 1 2009) Americas

    Forbes says a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) spokeswoman told it a U.S. launch for its unlimited bundled music program Comes With Music now won’t come until 2010 - although the magazine fails to quote her as such. Forbes is right when it says Nokia hoped to launch in 2009. As we reported from MidemNet in February, entertainment and communities EVP Tero Ojanpera said: “2009, we are looking at the US also, also we will be looking at Latin America - 2009 will be the whole world, more or less, the timing depends on a number of factors but that’s the plan.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Forbes   Orange   Nokia Music Store

  18. Still Unclear Whether Apple Will Reboot iPhone UK Exclusive

    Explore Article mocoNews (Aug 5 2009) Smartphones , EMEA

    Still Unclear Whether Apple Will Reboot iPhone UK Exclusive What’s really happening regarding O2’s UK iPhone exclusive? To be honest, we don’t know (if you do, drop us a line). But, after weeks of unsourced speculation that it’s coming to an end, Mobile Entertainment has perhaps the most concrete report yet... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Apple   Apple

  19. Confirmed: O2 Restores Twitter UK SMS Service

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jul 13 2009) Mobile Social Networking , SMS , EMEA

    Confirmed: O2 Restores Twitter UK SMS Service On March 2, we were first to report that O2 was the first UK network to strike a deal to reinstate free inbound SMS service in the country. Now O2 is confirming the news. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Vodafone   Kevin Thau

  20. IBM's Augmented Reality Makes A Splash At Wimbledon

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jun 24 2009) Smartphones

    The G1 phone’s built-in compass offers some tremendous possibilities. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM

  21. 'Most Digital Ever' Olympics Will Go Large On Mobile

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jun 23 2009)

    'Most Digital Ever' Olympics Will Go Large On Mobile The London 2012 Olympics is planning a significant mobile infrastructure roll-out for both the public and for bandwidth-hungry visiting media - but will eschew “bleeding-edge” mobile content for mass appeal. Alex Balfour, new media head for the Games’ organising committee told Mobile Entertainment Market ‘09 Vancouver 2010 will trial Samsung’s “Wireless Olympic Works”, a 3G info service that only Olympic officials used in Athens and Beijing, with the public for the first time at 2012: “Assuming that’s successful, it may be an interesting deployment for us, we’re in very early discussion around that.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Samsung

  22. 'Too Many App Stores', So Why No Hulu For Apps?

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jun 23 2009) Mobile Applications

    You haven’t been able to walk down the street recently without tripping over yet another new app store. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) lit the blue touch paper, but now handset makers and operators alike are each trying to replicate its success. As Shazam CEO Andrew Fisher told a panel at Mobile Entertainment Market ‘09 in London: “Every man and his dog is launching an app store.” But, with a veritable app store nuclear face-off brewing, doesn’t everyone risk fragmenting the market and confusing their customers? RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) alliances director Rory O’Neill, who recently launched BlackBerry’s App World, advocates a jointed-up ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Andrew Fisher

  23. Mobile Biz Expects Content Sales To Keep Growing

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jun 23 2009)

    More than 60 percent of mobile users still use their handset for only voice and text, according to a KPMG survey. KPMG director Mark Harding, who surveyed 4,190 consumers in 19 countries, called that an “opportunity” as he detailed the stats at the Mobile Entertainment Forum’s big Mobile Entertainment Market ‘09 in London on Tuesday… (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology

  24. Mobile Marketing Vendor Upstream Raises €11 Million VC

    Explore Article mocoNews (May 27 2009) SMS

    Upstream Systems, a London mobile marketing company used by BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), Coke and others, has raised an €11 million ($15.3 million) VC round, led by the city's TLcom and Greece's Alpha Ventures. The outfit was founded in 2002 and now has business with over 100 broadcasters, plus brands and mobile networks themselves. If you like, then, it's one of the bigger players in the mobile interactivity vendor space. Upstream manages SMS short codes and text-based interactivity for Sky and has run SMS-based competitions for Chevrolet. (Read Full Article)

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  25. Interview: Andrew Fisher, CEO, Shazam: App Stores Will Give Us 100 Million Users

    Explore Article mocoNews (May 11 2009)

    Once upon a time, Shazam, the mobile app that identifies songs by listening to audio clips, was just a fun gadget to show your friends ("wow, it really works!"). But the nine-year-old service has nearly doubled its userbase to 35 million since September, claims a tenth of users actually buy the tracks they hear and has ambitious plans for the year ahead. London-based Shazam, which has 60 staff and a new San Francisco office, may be hard-wired some in to Motorolas, to AT&T (NYSE: T) and be available via a dial-in number, but its growth is being fuelled by app ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Andrew Fisher   Apple   Samsung

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