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Mobile application of the week: Nokia Headlines - and a new mobile advertising channel for Nokia

My morning commute has been made a little more pleasant with the introduction of a new piece of Nokia software from their beta labs - Nokia Headlines. If you’re like me and your morning newspaper of choice is a broadsheet like the Financial Times, or the Daily Telegraph, then you will know how difficult these papers are to read on public transport due to their large format size. Thanks to a new release from Nokia labs, this is a thing of the past.

The Headlines team have secured deals with major brand publishers like the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney and the Sun in London.

Up close with Bena Roberts from GoMonews.com

It is always a pleasure to spend some time with Bena Roberts from GoMo news, and I was able to have lunch with her last week during the MMA Event in London.  I also caught up with Richard Saggers who is the current MMA Chair for EMEA and is also the head of Mobile Advertising [...]

Mobile social networking meets crowd powered media

I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand.

Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now Public.
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STOP PRESS: Customers with unlimited data plans use more data than those charged up to £4 per megabyte!

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 [...]