August 2010

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has just announced their repositioning to create additional membership benefits and enhance effectiveness to meet the changing face of mobile marketing. “In its formative years, the MMA placed great emphasis on helping build a global industry, creating standards and guidelines to support the growth of a new industry,” said Federico […]

Media players from the Internet, TV, and publishing have converged on the digital content space, intensifying competition for a consumer base reluctant to pay for most content.

Ovum’s new broadband forecast shows an increase in growth rate for mobile broadband subscriptions – good news certainly for mobile operators.

According to Ovum Telecoms mobile application download and revenues forecasts, by 2015 the annual end-user revenues from application downloads (dominated by Smartphone devices) will reach over $5.5 billion, with North America and Europe accounting each for over $1.8 billion, followed by APAC with over $0.9 billion.

New research commissioned by Globys (www.Globys.com), a leading provider of contextual marketing solutions for the worldwide telecommunications market, on the usage habits of mobile data users in Australia has revealed

Handset providers play an important role in China’s 3G ecosystem. Therefore, intensifying competition in the market requires handset providers to develop partnership strategies with operators that leverage their core competencies.

The mobile content and applications market is currently small, but it has significant potential to drive Asia’s emerging market operator non-voice revenues and ARPU.

IDC expects media tablet shipments in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) to grow from 1.3 million units in 2009 to 9.6 million units in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65%.

Just yesterday Yahoo! Southeast Asia invited the media over to their brand new office in Singapore’s banking district.

Banks offering mobile payment services must wake up to the threat of malware viruses or risk having to play catch-up with criminals, Ovum has warned.