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What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 05/19/10

• Success for Mobile Coupons Begins at the Register
• Adobe Flash-Enabled Sites Are Highlighted Upon Updating To Android 2.2
• GQ’s Men of the Year Issue on iPad: 365 Copies Sold
• Video: Adidas Mobile Augmented Reality Registers At Retail
• Virtual Zippo Lighter Application Looks to Cash in on 10 Million Users
• There’s No App for That: Android Development Lags
• Mayors of Starbucks Now Get Discounts Nationwide with Foursquare
• Mobile Operating Systems and Browsers Are Headed in Opposite Directions
• Women Take Lead on Mobile Coupons
• iPhone App Sales, Exposed
• Bambuser Links Video Streams To Foursquare Check-Ins
• Hey Advertisers, Forget the iPhone — Symbian Is Where It’s At!
• Starbucks Taps Mobile Social Media for Frappuccino Promotion
• OMMA: Beyond Branded Mobile Apps, The Future Of Mobile Lies With HTML5 And iAd
• Nissan Leaf to Get iPhone integration
• How to Develop an iPad Content and Advertising Strategy
• Will Google’s Tablet be a Game-Changer for Mobile Marketing?
• Gowalla Partners with National Geographic and Washington Post for Branded Trips
• MMA Launches Initiative To Make Mobile Marketing Easy For Brands, Agencies
• North America Will Lead Mobile App Downloads
• Why MMS is better than SMS
• Mobile Agencies Look Beyond Apps as Market Evolves
• SCVNGR Puts the Game Back in Location-Based Gaming
• Is the Mobile Pendulum Swinging From Apps to the Web?
• Mobile Touch-Friendly Web Grows Over 230% Annually, According To Taptu
• Consumers Use Web, Mobile Devices for Food Info
• Why Diesel Loves Foursquare – And Why Other Retailers Should Beware
• People Like Mobile Ads, says JiWire

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 03/31/10

• Foursquare’s Growth Not Slowing Down: 725,000 Users, 22 Million Checkins
• The iPad Needs The Web, but the Web Does Not Need the iPad
• With More Flash, Is Google About To Cut Off The HTML 5 Nose To Spite Apple’s Face?
• NPD: 51% Of Buyers Would Rather Have Netbook Over iPad
• Case Study: The Benefits And Pitfalls Of QR Codes
• Gowalla + Foursquare + Brightkite + Yelp + Google Maps = Checkin Mania
• Study: Mobile Web More Popular Than Reading
• 4 Reasons Why Marketers Scrambled to Get Their Apps on the iPad’s Launch
• Study: 80% Of SMS & MMS Users Report Dropped Texts
• How The iPhone Could End Up In Second Place
• No Flash On The iPad? No Problem. Brightcove Turns Videos Into HTML5
• Who Will Buy the iPad? [STATS]
• Yahoo’s Sketch-A-Search App for iPhone [VIDEO]
• Smartphones Projected to Overtake Feature Phones Next Year
• Apple’s iAd Could Bite a Chunk Out of Google’s Mobile Ad Business
• Augmented Reality Helps Consumers Find Local Shops
• Will The iPad Score App Store Gold Or Be A Developer Bust
• CTIA 2010 in Review: Top Trends in Mobile
• Some iPhone Video Apps Won’t Be Approved Unless They Can Adapt To AT&T’s Lousy Network
• Who Owns Mobile Strategy?
• In the App Economy, Does the Mobile Browser Matter?
• RingBack Tones – MMA Whitepaper
• AdMob: 70% Of iPhone Developers Switching To Android
• Mobile Milestone: Data Surpasses Voice Traffic
• How The Discovery Channel Makes Mobile Apps Pay
• Android Tablet Prototypes Support Flash [VIDEO]

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 2/17/10

• Adobe’s Plan To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices
• Brightcove Pushes Mobile Video With Flash 10.1 Support
• AT&T and Others Announcing Rival to Apple App Store….Great it’s 1999 all over again…
• 10 Pointless iPhone Apps
• Qik Teams With WeFi To Stream Video Using Free Stable WiFi Hotspots
• Facebook Mobile Now Has 100 Million Monthly Users
• Hulu Could Still Launch On The iPad …Not gonna happen…as article points out iPad needs Hulu more than Hulu needs the iPad…
• Detroit Red Wings Make Game Programs Interactive With QR Codes
• Shazam & Dockers Make TV A “Clickable Media” During Superbowl. YouTube Video Of Commercial Here.
• Why Is Mobile Marketing & Advertising So Hard To Measure?
• Bowlingual: iPhone App Translates What Your Dog Barks, Posts It To Twitter
• Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue Delivers Video from Page to Phone
• YouTube Will Kill Flat-Rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever
• What Google Buzz Means For Mobile
• From “Eraserhead” to MMS: David Lynch Goes Mobile
• Loopt’s Location-based Ads Hit the iPhone, ‘Minority Report’ Here We Come
• Apple Grabs 25% of the Smartphone Market, Android Doubles Market Share
• Teens Text 10 Times Per Hour: Nielsen (That’s it?!?)
• Stat Shot: How The iPhone Changed The Handset Market
• Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The Browser Will Win on Mobile
• Will Optimization For Mobile Apps Soon Outweigh Search Engine Optimization?

Sexting – MMS Has Finally Found It’s True Calling…

MMS has been the next ‘big thing’ in mobile for the last 6-7 years.  In a bit of irony, MMS has now become the major tech use for “Sexting”.  If you’re unfamiliar with that term, it’s when people send naked pictures of themselves through mobile.  And from this article on Gizmodo, 1/3 of Young Adults are leading the charge with the Sexting phenomenon.  I give it 2 years before Sexting becomes an official word in the dictionary.  But, if you want a good laugh now, you can see the various definitions of it on Urban Dictionary…

What’s New In Mobile Marketing – 09/30/09

• Apple Now Has 85,000 Apps In The App Store.  That’s 10,000 News Apps IN ONE MONTH.
• Android App Audience More Global Than iPhones
• Common Sense – Is There An App For That?
• Data Shows What Everyone Knows (except Brands): Gimmicky Apps Aren’t Used Frequently
• CBS Sports Latest Network To Live Stream Sports On The iPhone
• Today’s Mobile Apps Are Just An Appetizer
• Internet Browsing Via PC Beats Mobile By Mere 2 Percent: Study
• Will AT&T’s Network Hold Up Under The MMS Strain?
• JCPenny Tests Scannable Mobile Coupons
• MMS vs 12seconds – Videomail Wars Begin
• Starbucks Goes Mobile – Pay For Your Coffee With Your iPhone
• Macy’s CEO Gives Thumbs-Up To Mobile At Shop.Org Summit
• Free Waze App Turns GPS Navigation Into A Social Cellphone Game
• MINI USA iPhone App For Roadside Service & Assistance – Finally, A Utility-Based Branded iPhone App…

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 09/09/09

• Favorite Brands Of Global Mobile Internet Users? #1 KFC, #2 McDonald’s, #3 Sony, #4 Nestle, #5 Samsung, #6 Nokia, #7 LG, #8 Coca-Cola, #9 Panasonic, #10 Philips
• When It Comes To Mobile Marketing Think Loyalty, Not Coupons
• Domino’s: Mobile Commerce Growing At Astounding Rate
• ReadWriteWeb: Mobile Commerce Is Struggling. Except For Small Ticket Items Like Pizza (See Link Above)
• Loopt To Run iPhone Location Services In Background
• Bluetooth ‘Rings On Your Fingers’ Cell Phone Concept. Call Me?
• Twitter Vs. Mobile: A Marketer’s Scorecard
• AT&T iPhone FINALLY Getting MMS On September 25th
• Smartphone Sales To Surpass PC Sales by 2011
• 25% Of Facebook Users Connect Via Mobile Phones
• Sears, Loehmann’s, Rubio’s Using Mobile Coupons To Drive Consumers In-Store
• iPhone Users Are Data Whores

What’s New In Mobile Marketing – 07/15/09

• Qik Launches Push API, Mobile-To-Mobile Video Streaming
• Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues runs 2D Bar Code MMS Campaign
• 7 iPhone Apps that can save lives
• One out of every seven minutes of media consumption today takes place via mobile
• $2 or less is prime price point for iPhone Game
• MillerCoors courts Chicago sports fans with Mobile Marketing
• Seeking fame in Apple’s sea of iPhone Apps – 65,000 apps now…
• Top 10 Mobile Phone Websites - June 2009