Mobile Groove

In-Brief: Survey results reveal a majority of respondents believe branded search (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) will dominate & location is the must-have feature of mobile service moving forward.

If it has seemed a bit quiet on MSG the last few days, it is because I am collaborating with Netsize, a provider of mobile business and entertainment solutions, on the Netsize Guide, a respected mobile industry report and almanac that documents the developments that marked 2007 and the trends that wil…

In-Brief: Microsoft acquires search company, but can it wring value out of mobile search for the enterprise? 

For a start, I can’t say I was terribly surprised by the news today that Microsoft will acquire Norway’s Fast Search & Transfer for a cool $1.23 billion. The sudden departure of Mike “Mr. Mobile Search” Brady last year was a clear signal to expect some significant changes. This was reinforced by the company’s tie-up with Japan’s Rakuten and my …

In-Brief: A new tool makes publishing Web content on mobile a breeze. Mobile search (soon to come) will make finding it even easier. 

In my capacity as a columnist and regular contributor to eContent magazine, I recently reviewed Bango — a U.K. company that effectively enables content providers to market, deliver and sell their products and services directly to mobile phone users on all networks worldwide — and its recent release, Bango Button, that lets publishers deliver conten…

The release hit the wires at about 3 A.M. CET, so I can finally divulge some detail about the official tie-up (I hinted at yesterday) between Yahoo Japan for Mobile and Mobile Content Networks (MCN), which is now calling itself a mobile search management solutions provider. Marc Bookman, MCN CEO, and I deep-dive into the details lower down in this post.

MCN will provide its search platform to power Uta Search, a “digital content channel” around mobile music (ringtones and full-track d…

By Dr. Rick Hangartner

Dr. Rick Hangartner, Chief Scientist, MyStrands, has nearly 30 years experience developing computing hardware and software in the aerospace, data communications, heavy-trucking, and supercomputing industries. Prior to joining MyStrands, he worked for seven years at Cray, Inc. developing high performance computing hardware and software.

No, the headline on this entry is not a careless grammatical error. Nor is the question really “What is the recommender ma…

ChoiceStream has released its Personalization Survey, an excellent read that never fails to shed important light on industry trends. In view of my interest in the figures, ChoiceStream has provided MSG with the results and an exclusive pre-briefing with Toffer Winslow, ChoiceStream EVP for all-things personalized, that covers all the bases including an update on ChoiceStream’s recent tie-up with white-label mobile search and advertising company JumpTap. More on this a little furth…