The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced it’s full list of winners and finalists for 2010. The full 2010 MMA Global Awards finalists, by category are Europe Middle East and Africa Best Use of Mobile Marketing – Branding • Aerodeon for Ruffles Goller Cepte Campaign • Yodel Digital Ltd. for Jobsite 2010 mobile preroll •…
Day: 7 October 2010
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Windows Phone 7 developers won’t get sales income until Feb 2011
Microsoft has published the developer timeline for Windows Phone 7 and it looks about as complete as Delhi’s attempt at the Commonwealth Games. And even more worrying is that Microsoft don’t expect to be able to make a payment for sales of apps until February 2011. On the official Microsoft Windows 7 Phone developer blog…
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HP to launch WebOS phones in early 2011
Reuters news agency has a report that Hewlett-Packard (HP) will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using webOS HP acquired Palm earlier this year for $1.2 billion (£754 million) and has always maintained that they would continue to support the OS. HP has had Windows based smartphones for some years and although the phones have been…
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Android makes huge gains in US Smartphone market
comScore’s August mobile figures are out and US smartphone ownership is up by a massive 14%, but it’s not great news for RIM or Apple. Following yesterdays Nielsen results today we have comScores August results and it confirms the decline in popularity of the BlackBerry and the rise of Android. The results include the three…
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Intel to release tool to port iPhone apps to other platforms?
According to a report on MacWorld Intel is developing a tool that will make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices The tool will identify changes that need to be made in an iPhone application, making it easier to convert the application to run on Intel-based hardware,…
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Ad network Millenial Media adds new features for Android and iOS
Millennial Media has updated its software developer kits for Android and iOS (Android SDK 3.6.1, iPhone SDK 4.0.4, iPad SDK 4.0.4and respectively), improving experience and performance and adding support for additional advertising and marketing features such as video interstitials, and tailored ads. Here’s a quick feature run down for each mobile OS: Android SDK 3.6.1…
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More than 2 million Europeans bet via mobile
More than 2 million sports book customers in Europe now using the mobile to place their bets. A new report from analysts Juniper Research shows that mobile betting accounted for more than 70% of total global mobile gambling wagers in 2009, with the vast majority coming from the well-established iPAT service in Japan. Additionally consumer…
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iPhone to get refit for CDMA
According to the Wall Street Journal Apple are working on a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) version of the iPhone for US network Verizon. Earlier in the week we had predictions from many Apple watchers and analysts on Apple’s Q4 results and as part of that we said that one of the watchers was, predicting…