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The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up So in addition to the airline food, you've also got to contend with MP3 ringtones and the guy in the seat behind droning on about his relationship problems. Meanwhile, the first authorised in-flight mobile call was made at 30,000ft on 21 March on... [28 Mar 2008]
Mobile messaging 'still top earner in 2011'
News Handset 'infotainment' - such as news and sports clips - will outperform older forms of mobile personalisation, including ringtones, earning three times as much revenue, Jupiter predicts . Mobile content and services usage is predicted to pick up... [18 Jan 2007]
News Corp utters mobile content battle-cry
News The Jamba platform, which creates and sells ringtones, wallpapers and other mobile content, will be leveraged to distribute this new content, Chernin said. And simply increasing the number of people buying ringtones by just five per cent could... [14 Sep 2006]
Messaging - no more - say European mobile users
News Mobile video is popular with just eight per cent of the continent's mobiles, and personalisation services - such as ringtones and wallpapers - get the thumbs-up from a mere 15 per cent of users. Text messaging unsurprisingly remains the most... [03 Jul 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet So this is all about sending texts off to pay for ringtones? When an NFC device - such as a smartcard like the Oyster or a mobile phone - is passed within a centimetre of the reader, data is transmitted between the two. [20 Apr 2006]
Mobile market to rise on back of 3G success
News The analyst said entertainment and information services, ringtones and 3G will account for the largest portion of growth, as it predicts by 2008 almost 30 per cent of mobile customers in western Europe will own a 3G phone. [15 Feb 2006]
Phone data services getting the cold shoulder
News Separate research has found that the picture may be equally bleak for consumer data services, with a survey conducted by NOP for mobile firm Olista finding that 64 per cent of customers will give up on using a data service, such as downloading... [04 Nov 2005]
What's Qualcomm BREWing in Asia?
News Tony Li, the telecom equipment maker's senior director of business development, said: "Advanced mobile communications services are growing fast in Taiwan… Applications such as picture messaging, ringtones, games and other services have already... [06 Sep 2005]
Mobile games more valuable than porn
News According to the report, the mobile music sector - ringtones, ring-back tones, full track downloads and streaming services - will be worth around $11bn by 2010. The growth of non-ringtone music services will see a shake-up in the mobile content... [25 Jul 2005]
Mobile content downloading to treble, says report
News Ringtones, games and music are the favourite content types, with news and sports also gaining ground. Mike Short, chairman of the Mobile Data Association, said he expected pricing models to change as a result of users becoming accustomed to... [06 Jul 2005]
Five year wait for 3G takeoff in Europe
News As a result operators will have to reduce their dependence on SMS for data revenues and boost content services such as ringtones and games if they want to improve return on 3G network and licence investments. [01 Jul 2005]
Sun calls up some old chums
News To a large degree, the moves shore up Sun's dominance of the market supplying handset makers and mobile phone operators with download software for selling ringtones, games, screen wallpapers, and other downloads. [27 Jun 2005]
'Be flexible, not addicted', warns Citrix
News The smattering of ringtones which chirruped, whistled and played throughout the presentation suggested this may indeed be a piece of news lost on many attendees at iForum. The only Citrix exec in the auditorium at the Edinburgh International... [07 Jun 2005]
DirtyHippo wallows in muddy US mobile waters
News For years, US operators provided nearly all the messaging, ringtones, games, wallpapers and other phone applications, choosing to distribute only a lucky few from outside companies. A new internet site for downloading mobile phone software... [29 Mar 2005]
The Walkman returns - as a Sony Ericsson phone
News Figures out today from Juniper Research put the mobile music market - including things such as ringback tones and ringtones as well as downloaded tracks - at $9.3bn globally by 2009. He called the move to the phone-as-music-player - a development... [01 Mar 2005]
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