Om Malik at GigaOm reports on Nokia’s purchase of Plum and the anti-buzz on Nokia.
Lately, Nokia is starting to look like the next Sony.  At least in the sense that they are also a mighty manufacturer extending their business into content – and finding it tough to navigate.  Then all of a sudden, their hardware [...]

Yes another sign that your digital strategy will be your mobile strategy soon enough…

While I’ve already begun posting to TNP from my iphone using the Word Press app, I didn’t have a good way to provide a mobile (Portable) edition.  Lame, indeed as a blog called The New Portable.
…Until Now:  I just installed Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin from these guys:  http://crowdfavorite.com/
It strips away my template, but it seems [...]

This piece from from Mobile Marketer: Why email marketers must mobile-optimize their messages covers some best practices for email marketing.  Given the growth of email on mobile, this is critical to consider.  It makes some good recommendations (e.g. mobile web) and speaks to the likely changes to come in user habits around email.  All good [...]

This report from Pew is mostly a retrospective on their previous research on teens mobile use.  No surprises here….They plan to update in 2010.  While penetration among teens will clearly keep growing, teens use of mobile for DR, activation, etc. is still a big question.  Teen’s mobile web use also remains a big question.

A couple more sightings of marketers using SMS to activate offline media. In this case, subway ads.
The phone card cta seems weak, but who knows?
The use of SMS by Audible seems like a no brainer. A mobile cta for a mobile product. Makes sense to me.
I will opt in to both and share the [...]

Cool Mobile Search market share info from Silicon Alley Insider

Some interesting info here on NPR’s mobile efforts. I worked with NPR to launch their first mobile web site a few years ago. They’re ahead of the curve in many ways and this will keep them there. While NPR is unique, content owners/distributors can all get something from this.
Read more here…

Dan Frommer|Aug. 13, 2009, 5:40 PM|comment1
The launch of Apple’s iPhone 3GS (and price cuts on the iPhone 3G) helped Apple grow its share of the smartphone market last quarter: 13.3% worldwide, according to Gartner, up from 10.8% in Q1. Meanwhile, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion lost a bit of market share and Nokia gained some. [...]

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