Monthly Archives: December 2007

Vodka or the mobile internet?

My mobile bill came through the other day. Just over a hundred quid. God knows how. I’m sure I’m supposed to be on some hugely competitive, minute-donating, text-absolving plan, but clearly not. I took out one of those 18 month plans that was brilliant, just as long as you remembered to fill in a mysterious [...]

Mobile Advertising UK IAB Survey Results

It’s official, well according to the Internet Advertising Bureaus recent survey of UK brands and agencies. Mobile advertising will become a mainstream medium over the next three years, according to results of a newly released survey (available at http://iabuk.net/en/1/mobileadvertising.html) from the Internet Advertising Bureau in UK.     The IAB surveyed its members and garnered [...]

Congrats to Russell

A big, warm and fuzzy We Love Mobile congratulations to the lovely Mr Russell Buckley. Russell has been named in the Mobile Entertainment’s annual Top 50 mobile content executives list ( http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/29442/ME-Top-50-Exec-list-revealed) and has also been made Vice Chairman of the EMEA Mobile Marketing Association Board (after a unanimous vote from the MMA Board). Apparently [...]

Mobiles get the call from God

Hot off the press from our Italian Correspondent: The Catholic Church in Italy slammed a media company that launched its saints-by-text service yesterday. For 2 pounds per week subscribers can receive up to three images of saints with an accompanying prayer. Bishops have said it is “exploitative” but a director of the company said “This [...]

Mobile is going to the toilet

Is there no end to what you can now do with your mobile? A service called SatLav has just been launched by the City of Westminster. After texting ‘toilet’ to 80097, users receive a text message with the details of the nearest facilities and their opening times. Pitched by industrial designer Gail Knight, SatLav was [...]

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