Wireless Business Forecast articles from October 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from October 2005

WBF's CTIA Watch: What Mattered In San Francisco.(CTIA Wireless)
October 6, 2005... In a compact, more user-friendly version of the big spring meeting of the wireless tribes, CTIA's IT Wireless IT & Entertainment 2005 Show had few blockbuster announcements. Okay, so Qualcomm's MediaFLO is coming (no, really this time)...

Random Acts Of Enthusiasm: What We Liked at CTIA.(CTIA Wireless)
October 6, 2005... Grumbling about trade shows is one of the petty joys of business life, but Wireless Business Forecast actually came out of the recent CTIA show in San Francisco enthusiastic about more than a few applications and plans we got to see. ...

Paris Meets Stand-Up: Mobile TV's Early Lessons.
October 6, 2005... Daytime is prime time. Weather and stand-up are no-brainers. And speaking of no-brainers...anything involving Paris Hilton is killer content. Mobile video has reached enough of a steady audience, if not critical mass, to render some...

Mobile Marketing Numbers: Surprising WAP, Internet Performance.(wireless application protocol)
October 6, 2005... Wireless Business Forecast covered Ringbits.com a few issues back with word that this new Web-based search engine for ringtones was licensing the Google engine and getting off to a fast start - already profitable on the Google ads alone. We...

As We Were Saying: MTV Offers Marketers A Mobile Audience.
October 6, 2005... One of the most interesting but under-reported developments at last week's CTIA show was MTV's announcement that was creating an in-house messaging platform for use by its editorial and advertising groups. This project will allow MTV to...

Metrics Smackdown: Numbers, Numbers, Everywhere...
October 6, 2005... Vying for industry attention, major metrics firms came to the recent CTIA show bearing more numbers than we could count. Research on mobile content uptake, on audience preferences and prospects and on best-selling genres all gushed over...

Now, How Much Would You Pay...For That Sluggish MP3 Download?(music downloa)
October 6, 2005... Consumers are willing to pay a 75-percent premium when buying a music track directly from their phone for immediate download, according to a new NPD Group survey. That's the good news. The bad news is that there may not be a huge pool of...

Deal Sheet 10/06/05.(contract of Mobile Media Company and Two Minute Television )(partnership of Musicland Group and Motricity )(Partnership of SI Mobile and AG Interactive/AGMobile )
October 6, 2005... Who's Doing What?: SI Mobile, headquartered in New York City; 212/522-1375 Partners exclusively for content distribution with AG Interactive/AGMobile [AM] headquartered in Cleveland; 216/889-5000 What to Expect Near-Term: SI (Sports...

Is Rolling Your Own Ringtone A Market Threat?
October 20, 2005... It comes as no surprise that realtones have quickly dominated mobile music sales. According to Telephia, 60 percent of all ringtone revenue now comes from these enhanced-quality audio snippets, with only 33 percent of sales coming from...

Portable Gaming Finally Gets A Voice, But Does The Industry Want To Listen?
October 20, 2005... With the arrival of Portable Gaming Magazine (PGM) this month (www.portablegamingmag.com) the handheld gaming world finally gets a dedicated, monthly editorial outlet for the portable gaming world. And yet it remains unclear whether the...

Where The Heck Are We? Can LBS Find It's Way To The Deck?(location-based mobile)
October 20, 2005... Sure, there are location-based mobile applications - loads of them. They just haven't been deployed on consumer handsets yet. Telcontar (www.telcontar.com), which powers maps for Yahoo! and Google, recently launched a developer initiative...

Why V-iPod Matters To Wireless.(MP3 player in mobile telephones)
October 20, 2005... It's true that the press has a kind of genuflection reflex to all Steve Jobs/Apple new product announcements. The gushing over every iPod and Mac is a bit much to take, and the tech sycophants didn't disappoint lat week when the...

Content Market Shares Level Off.
October 20, 2005... In a trend that bears watching, the revenue split among the major mobile- data types remained fairly static in September, according to the latest report from m-commerce enabler Qpass, which represents roughly half the U.S. market and select...

Rabble Revisited: Making Sense Of The Crowd.
October 20, 2005... Wireless Business Forecast reviewed Intercasting's mobile blogging community Rabble when it launched last summer, and it is worth revisiting now that it has had some time to gather critical mass. Running only on Verizon Wireless for now,...

Messaging Moderates, Images Rocket On.
October 20, 2005... The latest benchmark survey of mobile content usage from M:Metrics suggests text messaging may be reaching its natural peak for the time being. Text messages remained at about a 37-percent penetration rate, while other media formats...

Your Pod Is Calling.(podcasts going directly to phones)
October 20, 2005... Wireless Business Forecast continues to be very bullish on the prospects for podcasts going directly to phones. On a recent Monday afternoon, when we spoke with Pod2Mob (www.pod2mob.com) President Brad Zutaut, he checked his live counter to...

Deal Sheet 10/20/05.(Illustration)
October 20, 2005... Who's Doing What?: mForma Group Inc., headquartered in San Francisco; 310/601- 1982 Complete a new funding round led by Institutional Investor Partners, headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.; 650/854-0132 and Bessemer Venture Partners,...