Millennial Media -- the largest independent mobile ad network, reaching 63 million U.S. mobile Web users -- has published its August Mobile Mix report. The report covers impression activity and trends across its network, encompassing device hardware, operating system software…
Many have hailed Apple's iPad as a salvation for publishers, and rapid adoption unequivocally certifies that it is indeed a "killer app." But what opportunities exist for Yellow Pages providers to marry their deep content and established brands with iPad's…
Steve Jobs might be as adept at captivating a live audience as he is at innovating game-changing media products. For nearly the first hour of Apple's "September event" earlier today in San Francisco, Jobs made nary a mention of…
Michael Zimbalist, who runs R&D at The New York Times Co., told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that the rise of social networks has spearheaded a very real shift from “the paradigm of publishing to the…
Some speculation (and new details) about Apple’s pending and well-expected reboot of Apple TV found its way last week into The New York Times just before the holiday break. My guess is that the new and obvious name will be…
I found myself in a funny place on Saturday morning. I was lined up at 8:10 a.m. to purchase a new iPad. Funny, because in a million years neither I nor my colleagues or family would have expected me to…
The Apple iPad was finally delivered or sold to 300,000 people this weekend. Hardly any of us had even touched it before. After a couple of days playing with my new 32 GB, Wi-Fi only model -- about $700 with…
Wired on the iPad, via All Things D Next month, Apple’s iPad comes out (and I will buy one). But what will be the impact of iPads and tablets from other companies on traditional media? Many are considering it to…
The money is moving quickly into the third-party SMB reseller space. ReachLocal has applied for a $100 million IPO, which could go out this spring. In hopes of similar paydays, its rivals are raising hordes of cash. Yodle, for instance,…
Joining the surge of smartphones with quickly evolving standards is the Nokia N97. It was unveiled today at Nokia World 2008 in Barcelona, as the conference's centerpiece. The top line is that it has 32 Gigs of memory, DVD quality…
148apps.com reports that there have been more than 10,000 iPhone apps released to date. The site tracks application releases and also has some interesting breakdowns of where applications fall into different categories and price points. About a quarter of total…
The phone is quickly advancing as a means of pushing out ad-sponsored content that mimics some of the popular mobile advertising features. Greg Webster of VoodooVox, at ILM:08, debuted some of the new features of the company's In-Call Media group, demonstrating…
The iPhone is now the top selling cellphone in the U.S., according to a report released today by NPD Group. Though overall mobile phone sales dropped 15 percent to 32 million units, 6.9 million iPhones were sold. By doing so,…
Today at the Canadian Marketing Association’s Digital Digital Marketing Conference, there was quite a bit of buzz around Blyk, a Finnish mobile phone company with an interesting hybrid model for distribution. Blyk is a free mobile operator targeting young people…
OK, we’ve got the format(s) and “best and brightest” speaker roster set for Interactive Local Media: Extending Local Channels, which is Nov. 19-21 in Santa Clara, California, next to San Jose. At the top of the list is Angie Hicks,…
After more than a year of speculation about a "GPhone," the Google-powered G1 phone was unveiled today in New York. As we reported last month, this will be a T-Mobile phone (built by HTC), and it will be available to…
France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on the 26-year-old Minitel service, which it launched in France in 1982. (Actually, Minitel is really 15 years older than that according to SEC filings: "Under an advertising sales agreement entered into in 1967,…
Pegasus News is launching an iPhone App on July 11 to coincide with the launch of iPhone 3G. The app for the Dallas city guide will feature events, restaurants, drinks, Wi-Fi and garage sales, all searchable by the hour and…
Yellow Pages Group New Zealand has announced the debut of “Yellow mobile” on the Telecom and Vodafone Live! networks. According to New Zealand’s Business to Business magazine: "Yellow Pages Group Digital Media Director Blair Glubb said Yellow mobile will complement…
Consumers looking to map out a Saturday morning errand run or a Saturday night bar-hop -- and find out about any special offers along the way -- can now do so easily via MetroSeeq, a Portland, Oregon, start-up by Intel-vet…
