The big picture guys know the battle of the future isn't just between newspapers or Yellow Pages and Google/Yahoo!. Indeed, as society goes mobile, it is also between the content owners and handset manufacturers. During his Day 2 opening keynote…
A close second to video in terms of getting "airtime" here at the Drilling Down on Local show, has been (a two-way tie between) social media and mobile. Leading up to the conference, there has been a lot of conversation…
Earlier in the week, I had the chance to catch up with Vehix.com CEO Derek Mattsson, who had some interesting things to say related to Monday's post about Starbucks taking mobile local search into its own hands. Vehix is interested…
Simeon Simeonov has a good post on the mysterious and long rumored Google phone, complete with screen shots. No confirmation about whether this is true or not, but Simeon's blog is a good read.
Late on Friday I saw CNET blogger Caroline McCarthy's report on Starbucks' new SMS-based mobile local search app. Like Google SMS and Yahoo! Mobile, any text-enabled mobile device can send a search query to a five-digit number that returns locations…
Tellme Networks announced today that it will expand its mobile voice platform to allow mobile search application developers to build products that integrate voice and visual search. In essence this brings together the ease of speaking and of seeing results…
The Los Angeles Times, a great newspaper that has been widely derided for its ineffectual Web site, hopes to turn the site around by bringing in Meredith Artley as its executive editor. Artley previously served as the Web site director…
The New York Times' Bob Tedeschi wrote an article on Monday (which has been sitting on my desktop, among others, waiting to be read) about online coupons. It said much of what we already know about coupons but also provided…
At the 3GSM Conference this week, Motorola and Nokia fired significant shots at wireless carriers by launching new hardware and navigation systems that they will sell directly to consumers. They will offer GPS-based navigation systems with local search, mapping and…
Following up on yesterday's mobile news roundup, we had the chance to catch up with AdStar CEO Leslie Bernhard and others during a call yesterday afternoon. The company earlier in the day had announced a partnership with Nokia to integrate…
In the past, we've talked about the effect smartphone use has on mobile local search adoption. Many third-party mobile local search applications such as Earthcomber only work on smartphones. Similarly, designing a robust and compelling enough mobile search platform is…
The 3GSM World Congress is going on this week in Barcelona, and we've already seen a handful of important announcements that relate to mobile local search. Yahoo! announced a display ad platform for mobile devices that will involve banner…
ZDNet reports on two different mobile usage studies here and here. Both show usage and revenues growing dramatically over the next three to five years, with entertainment services (games, music, TV) having the steepest incline. Though search wasn't mentioned, increased…
From Nokia's 4Q earnings call transcript (courtesy of 123Jump.com): "Nokia, the maker of mobile phones, reported profit growth of 19% to EUR 1.27 billion from EUR 1.07 billion a year earlier, exceeding analysts' forecasts. The company shipped 106 million handsets,…
U.K. publisher Yell's online directory operation, Yell.com, has expanded the capability of its mobile directory platform with a new service being offered both in application- and browser-based modes through a deal with the Danish mobile search firm mobilePeople. Here is…
Amid the endless and effusive praise of Apple's new iPhone, Good Morning Silicon Valley's John Paczkowski offers a refreshing reality check about some of the things the device is missing, "questions that are now emerging as the hypnotic pull of…
The blogosphere is abuzz over the iPhone. Lots of claims that it will be a game changer in mobile search and entertainment. Apple certainly sees the potential of the device, and correctly anticipated the killer app of mobile devices by…
Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynotes are among the most awaited tech events of the year, as some of the products historically announced (iPod, for example) have represented inflection points in consumer technology. Today at Macworld, Jobs introduced the long awaited iPhone.…
As mentioned briefly yesterday, we expect much of the product innovation unveiled at CES to deal with device convergence particularly with sharing content between Web, mobile and TV. Bill Gates' keynote had this theme, but it showed little difference…
MapQuest announced today that it will enhance its MapQuest Mobile product and make MapQuest Navigator available on BlackBerries from Sprint and Nextel. MapQuest Mobile is a mobile local search platform available on any cellphone, which requires only a free download.…
