December » 2009 » mobilegroove

As we wind down for the holidays I would like this opportunity to thank the fantastic people who have supported MSG with content, ideas and guest columns, taking MSG to a new and exciting level.

My personal thanks to Carlo Longino for DATA POINTS, the weekly roundup he has contributed to MSG throughout 2009. Of course, this regular post is just a small indication of his talents.

Carlo, an experienced writer and analyst who has been working in the mobile industry for over a decade, also takes on communications and consulting projects to help companies build profile and raise their brand and product

SUBSCRIBER DATA MANAGEMENT WILL GENERATE MORE THAN $17 BILLION IN PERSONALIZED SERVICE REVENUE FOR MOBILE OPERATORS BY 2014, says a new report from ABI Research. The firm says that in order to monetize all of the customized services they will launch for their users, they’ll need to be able to individually understand them, down to their

Editor's note: A range of content discovery issues continue to plague mobile operators and content companies on-portal. Add the explosion of content off-portal and the advance of applications stores and finding (and buying) what we like can be like looking for a proverbial needle in hay stack.

PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT GENERATIONS HAVE LARGELY SIMILAR VIEWS ABOUT CONNECTIVITY AND CONTENT, says a new survey from Motorola, highlighting how the generation gap regarding use of media technology and services is disappearing. The survey found that 80 percent of Millenials, 78 percent of Gen Xers and 78 percent of Baby Boomers want to be

The explosion in app stores and off-portal browsing are changing all the rules, pushing content discovery (and the search for solutions to make finding stuff easier) to the top of the agenda. This came across in my own on-going research (dating back to 2005) and the industry-first report I wrote on the topic at the time, aptly titled Mobile Search & Content Discovery.

Back then content owners and mobile operators alike complained about content discovery shortcomings, ones that no mobile search services could solve for a myriad of reasons I outlined during my recent mobile search masterclass.

Fast forward to (almost) 2010, and it's shaping up to be an exciting time indeed, with recommenders (finally) taking center stage. Industry interest is high and this has prompted

Kudos to Mark Hawkins and the team over at the Mobile Data Association (MDA) for bringing media and U.K. mobile operators together in a partnership that recognizes the skills gap that threatens to stunt the spread of mobile data services and, ultimately, the growth of the