Over at Local Search News, my latest column posted. I also did a podcast with LSN's Steve Espinosa over the weekend that should be available soon. The column has lots of data from our recent mobile ad revenue forecast, but…
At a rate of 900 apps downloaded per second, Apple is projected to hit 1 billion sometime next Saturday morning (it's just over 930 million at the time of this post). Open app marketplaces are a key ingredient in the…
In an under-reported story, Valpak has begun to experiment with mobile distribution of its signature coupons. So far this has included an iPhone optimized Web site and next up could be a native iPhone app. This could come at the…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed newspaper publishers this morning at the NAA Annual Convention in San Diego, giving a high-level, thought-provoking talk (without apparent notes) about the future of information and the role that newspapers, search and consumers will play…
Canada's Yellow Pages Group has become the latest North American directory publisher to launch an iPhone application. This joins every major U.S. publisher (most recently R.H. Donnelley), to announce new mobile products. Along with the iPhone app will be a…
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has launched an ambitious local mobile video site using the The AP Mobile News Network, said AP President Tom Curley, speaking at the NAA Annual Convention in San Diego. The site extends The Review-Journal’s leadership onto…
Yelp has had lots of success with its iPhone app, which currently accounts for 5 percent of its overall traffic. This is partly because its base of urban "foodies" maps well to iPhone user bases. This was a smart platform…
Nokia Executive VP Anssi Vanjoki gave this morning's keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, explaining the global mobile giant's vision of the future mobile Web, and why it paid $8 billion for Navteq. Nokia's influence and positioning…
The IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers are out with their semi-annual report on the online ad market. IAB/PWC say that interactive revenues were $23.4 billion for 2008, which is up 10.6 percent from the prior year. But everyone seems to be pointing…
As rumors over the past week have indicated, Skype's iPhone app will launch tomorrow and will be available in the app store. The application will allow users to operate the Skype client from their iPhones. Like Skype's online service, this…
Techcrunch has a guest post today from Google VP of engineering for mobile Vic Gundotra, which pinpoints the factors that will drive the growth of the mobile Web. Among them are the easy-to-use mobile browsers (i.e., iPhone and Android-based devices),…
Krillion announced today that it will power product inventory search on the ShopSavvy application for Google Android based phones. This app gets high marks on the cool factor. Produced by Big In Japan, ShopSavvy has been a popular free Android…
Following yesterday's preview of Dex's new line of mobile search products, I had the chance to talk to the company today about the ins and outs. First, the product line consists of an SMS search tool, a mobile Web site,…
A great deal has already been written about the work Microsoft is doing with Ford to make the car itself a more powerful mobile device. I just came across an interesting video that shows some of these features in action.…
As pre-announced at last week's Marketplaces conference, DexKnows has launched a new line of branded local search products, including an iPhone app. The line is built and powered by mobilePeople, a company that has built strong applications for a number…
AdMob has supplied a steady stream of monthly reports that extrapolate mobile market data from its ad network. Its latest report (February) has a few interesting points about mobile Web traffic shares among smartphone operating systems in the U.S. and…
Fwix, a social news site that launched last summer, has just launched a local search iPhone app (via TechCrunch). It will be an all-in-one local app that aggregates latest news, blog posts, Yelp reviews, crime reports and other info that…
Related to the previous post, Lee Gientke, OrangeSoda's director of partner development, blogs today about local intent for mobile searches. This is a good preview of the comments we'll hear next week from Gientke and 12 other speakers during our…
EMarketer has released a report on mobile ad growth in Canada. The numbers are growing at rates similar to those we see in the U.S. (see TKG U.S. Mobile Advertising Forecast) but on a smaller scale. We also see a…
After Apple's July 2008 introduction of the App Store, we've seen others follow suit, such as Google's Android Market, Palm's Software Store, and the upcoming Windows Marketplace and Ovi Store from Nokia. Yesterday, the long-awaited BlackBerry application marketplace joined the…
