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http://www.businessmobileasia.com/news/application/
Handset makers get in on location services
By Marguerite Reardon
CNET News.com, Friday , February 16 2007 10:29 AM
Handset makers Motorola and Nokia are ready to take on mobile operators in a turf battle over high-tech navigation.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2005860,00.html
Mobile phone firms seek their own search engine
Katie Allen
Monday February 5, 2007
The Guardian
Some of the world's biggest mobile phone networks will use a conference next week to discuss creating their own mobile
phone search engine to rival services from Google and Yahoo!
Big players including Telefonica-owned O2 and Vodafone will convene at 3GSM in Barcelona to consider the merits of a new
service for the whole industry which can tap into nascent mobile advertising revenues.
One option would be to ask an existing search engine, possibly Google or Yahoo!, to power a service for all the
networks. It is thought the businesses's collective clout would secure a bigger portion of advertising revenues in
return for giving the engine's operator and its advertisers a wider subscriber base. A source close to one operator
said: "The larger operators would need to be on board for it to be viable because that would make it a de facto
standard, then you also have the benefit of economies of scale."
dotmobi will be able to offer their customers more multimedia services thanks to a new server from newbay software
the new server will support
common types of web and mobile video uploads, downloads and
viewings. NewBay's video server allows users to upload videos to
their blog or album straight from a mobile handset or through the
internet. It will also give users the option to download video to
iPods or PSPs.
http://www.johnbreslin.com/wiki/images/8/83/20070207a.pdf
<, see above to link to read full article>
search pdf doc for mobi
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,61987785,00.htm
dotMobi ramps up mobile content drive
By Tim Ferguson, Special to ZDNet Asia
Wednesday, February 07 2007 10:36 AM
Free software tools are being offered to dot-mobi website developers to improve the quality of content behind the mobile
top-level domain name.
dotMobi, the industry group behind the domain name, is launching its 'Go Mobile!' initiative, which includes a range of
tools for companies to build, test and develop their mobile-optimized sites.
Neil Edwards, dotMobi CEO, explained the reasoning behind the new initiative.
He told silicon.com: "We brought in 'Go Mobile!' very simply because we're not about selling lots of names, we're about
getting content behind names.
"Operators, who are investors, want traffic on their network--they don't get traffic without content."
Edwards added the tools are aimed at serving the natural development of the domain names, as companies work out exactly
how they want to use them.
The dot-mobi domain name was launched last year. Around 372,000 domain names have been sold to date.
Edwards said: "It's more [take-up] than we expected - we thought we'd actually be at about half these numbers. We're
very please with our take-up."
Big names that have signed up to dot-mobi include BMW, Rolls-Royce and French train operator, Thalys.
The tools will be available for domain name resellers on Monday.
Tim Ferguson of Silicon.com reported from London
http://www.businessmobileasia.com/news/application/
Handset makers get in on location services
By Marguerite Reardon
CNET News.com, Friday , February 16 2007 10:29 AM
Handset makers Motorola and Nokia are ready to take on mobile operators in a turf battle over high-tech navigation.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2005860,00.html
Mobile phone firms seek their own search engine
Katie Allen
Monday February 5, 2007
The Guardian
Some of the world's biggest mobile phone networks will use a conference next week to discuss creating their own mobile
phone search engine to rival services from Google and Yahoo!
Big players including Telefonica-owned O2 and Vodafone will convene at 3GSM in Barcelona to consider the merits of a new
service for the whole industry which can tap into nascent mobile advertising revenues.
One option would be to ask an existing search engine, possibly Google or Yahoo!, to power a service for all the
networks. It is thought the businesses's collective clout would secure a bigger portion of advertising revenues in
return for giving the engine's operator and its advertisers a wider subscriber base. A source close to one operator
said: "The larger operators would need to be on board for it to be viable because that would make it a de facto
standard, then you also have the benefit of economies of scale."
dotmobi will be able to offer their customers more multimedia services thanks to a new server from newbay software
the new server will support
common types of web and mobile video uploads, downloads and
viewings. NewBay's video server allows users to upload videos to
their blog or album straight from a mobile handset or through the
internet. It will also give users the option to download video to
iPods or PSPs.
http://www.johnbreslin.com/wiki/images/8/83/20070207a.pdf
<, see above to link to read full article>
search pdf doc for mobi
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,61987785,00.htm
dotMobi ramps up mobile content drive
By Tim Ferguson, Special to ZDNet Asia
Wednesday, February 07 2007 10:36 AM
Free software tools are being offered to dot-mobi website developers to improve the quality of content behind the mobile
top-level domain name.
dotMobi, the industry group behind the domain name, is launching its 'Go Mobile!' initiative, which includes a range of
tools for companies to build, test and develop their mobile-optimized sites.
Neil Edwards, dotMobi CEO, explained the reasoning behind the new initiative.
He told silicon.com: "We brought in 'Go Mobile!' very simply because we're not about selling lots of names, we're about
getting content behind names.
"Operators, who are investors, want traffic on their network--they don't get traffic without content."
Edwards added the tools are aimed at serving the natural development of the domain names, as companies work out exactly
how they want to use them.
The dot-mobi domain name was launched last year. Around 372,000 domain names have been sold to date.
Edwards said: "It's more [take-up] than we expected - we thought we'd actually be at about half these numbers. We're
very please with our take-up."
Big names that have signed up to dot-mobi include BMW, Rolls-Royce and French train operator, Thalys.
The tools will be available for domain name resellers on Monday.
Tim Ferguson of Silicon.com reported from London
