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The advertising arms race in social networks

Alan Moore — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:12:36 +0000

The Stampede For Social Network Dollars Intensifies writes Diane Mermigas The race to monetize and leverage the power of social networks is turning into a stampede, as evidenced by Microsoft’s recently renewed efforts to acquire Facebook in the wake of...

The iPhone Goes Schmapping

Wireless-Weblog — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:29:03 +0000

On Monday, digital travel guide publisher Schmap will launch the public beta of its solution for the iPhone.

The iPhone offering will incorporate the company's City Guides along with a Local Search service and a new iPhone-specific Rotate 'n Map feature (see image) that automatically updates your map when the iPhone is turned sideways.

Check it out at http://www.schmap.com/iphone ... and if you want to try it out before the official beta launch on Monday the 12th, just go to www.schmap.com on your iPhone and enter access code 724627.

Instinct vs. iPhone, Part II

Wireless-Weblog — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:47:31 +0000

Just in case you had any doubts that the Samsung Instinct was targeting the iPhone directly, marketing company M80 recently released a video comparing the Instinct's GPS functionality with that of the iPhone. And that's just one of a series the company has launched on Sprint's Web site, where they've posted the helpful tag line "Watch the Instinct defeat the iPhone" - just in case you didn't already get the idea...

There's one problem with the whole campaign, though, as Gizmodo's Mark Wilson notes. "The problem isn't that the Instinct is necessarily a bad phone, or that Sprint is a worse service than AT&T," he writes. "It's that Sprint's series of commercials will cost the company $100 million to promote a message that will most probably be a moot point in one month if/when Apple announces their 3G iPhone..."

Should your blog be on the OpenGardens blogroll ..

Open Gardens — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:44:38 +0000

I am revamping the opengardens blogroll. Happy to add any good blogs or recommendations. The OpenGardens blog is ranked at 7 out of 10 at google page rank - so will do good for your google ratings. I am also looking to link to blogs from all over the world based on criteria below especially from India, Chinese language/Japanese/Korean/German language/Spanish language and europe even if they are not in English Criteria The blog must be mobile /wireless/web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 related It must have good content It must be consistent ie not an ocassional post in a month I especailly welcome global blogs (even if they are not in English) kind rgds Ajit

Wireless camps prep fresh 4G battle

3G Portal — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:42:08 +0000

Wireless camps prep fresh 4G battle: The International Telecommunication Union, Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) ‘s recent call for candidates for the next-generation IMT-Advanced mobile broadband technologies has spurred competing standards groups into action. Even though the technical requirements are not yet finalized for IMT-Advanced — that’s ITU-speak for 4G — the WiMax folks at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) and the LTE folks at the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) are already hard at work on their proposals.

» Can the Clearwire coalition save 4G WiMax?

3G Portal — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:41:20 +0000

» Can the Clearwire coalition save 4G WiMax?: It has faced criticism as an unreliable and untested technology, and not only from promoters of the rival HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) and LTE (Long-Term Evolution) technologies. Earlier this year, Garth Freeman, the CEO of Australian WiMax operator Buzz Broadband, described his experience with the technology as a “disaster” and cited problems such as latency, jitter, and poor indoor service. While WiMax equipment vendor Airspan claimed that Buzz Broadband’s poor WiMax experience was due more to the company cutting corners in its deployment than to the technology itself, Freeman’s anti-WiMax tirade generated unwelcome negative publicity at a time when the technology experienced delays

Why Intel’s betting its chips on 4G

3G Portal — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:39:05 +0000

Why Intel's betting its chips on 4G: At first blush, it sounds as if Intel’s throwing good money after bad. After all, why pay $1 billion to join a consortium which has “squabble-fest” written all over it? 4G has been a slow train coming and the latest attempt by Sprint and Clearwire to speed the transition could easily fall hostage to all the big egos with seats on the board. Lest we forget, Sprint and Clearwire went their separate ways last November, only months after announcing plans for a Wi-Fi partnership.

On the road to Pasadena

Chetan Sharma — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:16:36 +0000

Have been traveling all this week. From Memphis to Seattle to leaving for Pasadena in a little bit. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is organizing the event on advertising tomorrow. Online Advertising - Getting Up Close and Personal: How will new avenues for advertising influence the buying decisions of consumer? Tim Cadogan, CEO OpenX, former SVP of Global [...]

European 2.5 GHz Auctions

Daily Wireless — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:55:15 +0000

Sweden has concluded their auction of 2.6 GHz spectrum by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Auctioning 190 MHz in the in the 2.6 GHz band raised a total of SEK 2.1 billion (USD 346 million). Five companies won licenses. Intel Capital acquired one block of 50 MHz TDD spectrum for USD 26.2 million. [...]

Nokia re-emphasises its Internet credentials ..

Open Gardens — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:54:40 +0000

From arstechnica "Our goal is to act less like a traditional manufacturer, and more like an internet company," Kallasvuo told his shareholders. "Companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft are not our traditional competitors, but they are major forces that must be reckoned with. Make no mistake: We are taking on these challenges seriously and aggressively." "When we look at it with the eyes we have now, when regarding pedestrian navigation, map services, digital maps, we are even more excited about the opportunities than when making the decision" to buy Navteq, said Kallasvuo. Absolutely agree! Very few companies in the existing Telco space are going to dominate the world where the Mobile Internet is the dominant player and Nokia is one of them in my view.. For that matter .. very few existing Telecoms companies are going to survive in my view and there is a lot to be learned form Nokia

i2 technologia featured on Forum Nokia with Anina’s Flash Lite DressUp game

Marco Casario — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:46:09 +0000

I'm very happy to spread the word for this news. Guys behind i2 technologia (Felipe and Luciano) were featured on Forum Nokia as a FN Success Story:

Vonage stems the tide and gets onboard with Covad