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 [...]
Taptu is a search engine for your mobile phone. Starting with music and fact-finding, they offer a load of content to help you find what you need quickly on your mobile.
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu and Christophe Hocquet from Moblr, who are using Taptu to power their social [...]
Head over to msearchgroove for my next guest post on location - with a roundup of some emerging location based applications that have started to hit the market.
A summary of the post - titled “Location-Based Social Network Apps Are The Crowd-Pleaser; Is Presence Ready For Prime Time?” is below.
In-Brief: MSG’s favourite LBS pundit Andrew Grill turns [...]
…well not really. The summary from the official Google mobile blog reads
“Wireless phones can make and receive calls because they are connected over the air to a nearby cell tower. The phone knows the ID of the cell tower that it’s currently using. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends [...]
I spoke with Bryan Stockwell from Mobile Commerce at the Navigation & Location Europe conference here in Amsterdam and he told me that they are behind the service I mentioned in an earlier post about the Microsoft LIVE local search product in the UK.
Bryan was on a panel I chaired at the Mobile Location Europe 2008 [...]
Microsoft quietly launched a new feature on the mobile version of their live website at http://m.live.comhere in the UK. As you can see from the screenshots below, there is now a “find me” button.
Users in the UK who access m.live.com from their native WAP browser (would not work on Opera Mobile or Opera Mini) are automatically [...]
Welcome to All About Symbian readers - looks like we’ve had a flood of traffic from the post by Steve Litchfield titled Ruminations on cell-id location in Nokia Maps 2.0.
I have been using Nokia maps for some time now, and following the launch of their V2.0 beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I have been [...]
Over at mobileljones.com you will find this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, where you will see a reflection of mobile’s push to data and multimedia in 2008, and how handset companies, former handset companies, internet companies, new entrants and social networking giants are all involved in mashups of services.
Once again, the mobile world’s finest provide their [...]
When not doing my day job, or spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of [...]
Wikipedia describes a Frenemy as portmanteau of friend and enemy which can refer to either an enemy disguised as a friend or to a partner that is simultaneously a competitor. In an article in today’s Financial times by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson titled “Advertisers welcome prospect of stronger rival to Google“, Sir Martin describes Google as a [...]
I thought it had happened already, but a report in the Guardian says Google is getting closer to dethroning ITV as the UK’s biggest single advertising income generator. Seven years ago, who would have thought search would have overtaken TV?
Next stop - mobile advertising…..
Google snaps at ITV1’s heels for UK ad income crown
Jemima Kiss and Mark Sweney
Tuesday [...]
I caught the release from Reuters Google CEO bullish on mobile Web advertising which quotes from Eric Schmidt’s speech at Davos.
Of interest, and quoting directly from the Reuter’s release…
The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution”, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said [...]
As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware. Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye.
Then over the next few days others commented [...]
Over on the excellent MSearch Groove website, Peggy Anne Salz gives us a preview of a very interesting report to be released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. The real attraction is the Netsize survey, the company’s first-ever online poll of some 1,800 industry professionals.
Two key takeouts - respondents to a survey for the Netsize Guide (a [...]
A recent article from the Associated Press “Privacy Delays Ad Targeting on Phones”, and widely circulated on the news wires caught my eye as it highlights some of the current issues facing mobile advertising and in particular location based advertising.
The Media often write about how location can be easily combined with other demographic and customer [...]
We all know that the time leading up to Christmas and New Year is a very slow news period, but many mobile commentators including myself had a quiet chuckle when they read the story on the front page of the UK’s Financial Times on Christmas Eve 2007 - iPhone users raise network hopes.
Quoting the story from [...]
I just had a look at the new Google My Location service launched this week. Being a Location expert, I have been looking closely to see how well it works. On first pass, it is quite similar to the Psiloc Locatik service launched at the Symbian Smartphone show in London in October.
The raw inputs to the service [...]
Saw this very smart piece of digital outdoor from CBS Outdoor who look after advertising on the underground system in London. It really shows you how digital creative will transform outdoor - well it made me stop, look and take a video of it!
This creative is being played out on High Definition flat panel LCD [...]
