MocoNews had a small write-up on this LG / Samsung initiative. VuNet had this piece.
This was at the tail end of the story:
A study commissioned by the National Association of Broadcasters suggested that the adoption of a single mobile digital TV standard would drive the sale of 130 million mobile digital TV phones by the end of 2012.
This piece was interesting to me fo ...
MocoNews reported this afternoon that the WSJ is reporting that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are about to announce a new JV that includes a bunch of other partners - and their capital. So far, not a lot of surprises. There has been talk and reporting for months now that Sprint was seeking partners to share both the cost and the risk of deploying a nationwide WiMax network in the U.S.
So, I tried to switch service providers the other day. I really wanted to switch, but I couldn't figure out the math or get a deal that suited me.
I wanted to get a voice plan (ca. 900 minutes) and a data plan. I also wanted to be able to use at least two phones. (Ok, yes, this story is about a GSM carrier.) Here are the problems I encountered:
I admit, I've become addicted to text (SMS) alerts in a way comparable to my Outlook calendar. I no longer function without a 15 minute reminder that I have meeting approaching. The same is true of my reliance on SMS alerts to know what is happening in the Presidential campaign.
Yesterday, Barack's campaign sent me an alert to let me know he'd be on The Daily Show. It was actually in ...
I came across one of my favorite examples of well-executed mobile marketing last week in Switzerland. Coke was running a sweepstakes to win tickets to UEFA Euro2008. Tickets were being given away every 90 minutes thereby encouraging more purchases of Coke products. (A Coke in Switzerland, by the way, costs more than a ticket to a soccer game in the US, but, hey the Euro 2008 is special - this is t ...