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Well, this has absolutely nothing to do with this blog, also called London Calling but I thought I’d upload the press release anyway.
Press Release: Mayor seeks ‘wow’ factor for London 2012’s legacy
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has today called on businesses and organisations from around the world to submit truly ground-breaking ideas to contribute to [...]
This post has just been featured at WOM World/Nokia.
Just over a week ago I took delivery of a shiny new Nokia E71. Those who have been following London Calling lately will know that I have been waiting excitedly for the E71 to be released, having been an early adopter of both the E61 and E61i.
After a [...]
Orange has run the world’s first in-SMS advertising trial in Switzerland in partnership with Amobee Media Systems, a provider of advertising solutions for mobile phones. Several major brands participated in the project.
Orange ran a trial with SMS-embedded ads in Switzerland to leverage the mobile advertising potential in European markets.
SMS is probably the most efficient channel [...]
When Motorola purchased Goodlink, those of us using Nokia devices with Goodlink were rightly concerned that Motorola would downgrade, or stop support for Nokia/Symbian devices because Motorola is a direct competitor of Nokia.
[ For those not familiar with Good, it's better than Blackberry and provides simply the best corporate push email experience around. ]
When Good [...]
There are lots of "Top 100" lists floating around at the moment but this one caught my eye, because rather than just being a long list, the crew over at Spotlight Ideas have grouped their list into different genres, so you can scan down the list (presented below) and look at the favourite blogs for [...]
August 13, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments
Over at Cellular news, there is a story on a survey commissioned by Valista and conducted at the Building Blocks 2008 conference held last week found that over 86 percent of the industry insiders interviewed believe that it should take less than a month to launch new mobile content and services with an operator. This [...]
I received an email via my contact form this morning from Andrew Gray in Melbourne about a new mobile search engine called Firxt.
As I’m always happy to help Aussie startups, I’ve posted the information here as well as a bit from his about page. Why not point your mobile browser at www.firxt.com and give a try?
Hi [...]
It was only going to be a matter of time until sponsored Google mobile maps results would appear.
Today when I was seaching for the Waldorf Hotel in London, the actual location was identified by a Hilton logo on my Google mobile maps screen (it was clearly identified as a sponsored link) and the results page also had [...]
The Olympic Games are a hot topic and people from all over the world want to catch up with the latest news about it. According to a recent release from Nielsen Mobile 31.3% of mobile video users and 17.2% of mobile internet users in the UK are likely to follow the Olympics on their cell [...]
August 8, 2008 ♦ Comment?Based in London, Andrew Grill is an experienced Telecoms Senior Executive and mobile advertising evangelist. The views expressed here are my own. Find out more at andrewgrill.com