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What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 2/25/10

• Stats: Sports Illustrated’s 2010 Swimsuit iPhone App Converts 7.8% In-App Purchases…
• Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25%
• Future iPads To Have Front-facing Cameras, Flash (Bulbs, Not Software)
• 10 Things You Need to Know About Mobile and Social Media
• SMS case study – Pizza Hut
• Is This the Killer App for Mobile Barcodes?
• GigaOM Infographic: Mobile Augmented Reality
• AD AGE Uses JagTags To Enable Readers To Sign Up To Win Free Tickets To Digital Conference
• Editorial: The American Phone Subsidy Model Is A RAZR Way Of Thinking In An iPhone World
• Robo.to Launches Video-Status Update App On Android
• Smartphone Sales Up 24 Percent, iPhone’s Share Nearly Doubled Last Year (Gartner)
• Survey Finds Little Interest In Person-To-Person Mobile Payments, Especially In US & Europe
• The Truth About Mobile Application Stores
• 20 Key Trends From Mobile World Congress 2010
• Nokia Hints At Augmented Reality Maps And 3D Smartphones In Its Future (video)
• Digital Marketing Guide: Mobile
• Despite Small Numbers, Magazines Are Big on Bar Codes
• The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo
• AD AGE Says ‘Texting Trumps Talking; Just Not for Advertising’ – Here’s Why
• Mobile Barcode Breakthrough Means We May Soon See Them Everywhere
• Social Networking Now More Popular on Mobile than Desktop
• 5 Terms That Signify The Future Of Mobile Marketing
• Meebo Is the New King of iPhone Messaging Apps

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?

Donate To The Red Cross Haitian Relief Effort With Your Mobile Phone

With the Haiti crisis in full swing, modern technology has allowed a quick and easy use to help donate for relief efforts.  The Red Cross has a shortcode program setup where you can text HAITI to 90999 and donate $10 to their relief efforts.  The charge goes on your mobile phone bill.  Needless to say this is a real human event and crisis that you can help with in seconds and to date, $10 million has already been raised via this specific mobile effort.

More information on the campaign itself is here.

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 12/11/09

• Ustream Broadcaster App On iPhone – Festivus For The Rest Of Us! Qik soon to be live as well!
• AT&T: 3% Of Wireless Users Eat 40% Of Data
• Today’s Vision Of Tomorrow: Apps With Everything, Everything With Apps
• 8 Medical (Useful) iPhone Apps You Should Prescribe To Your Health-Care Professional
• Consumer Warming Up To Mobile Video
• 7-Eleven Tries Out Mobile Marketing With Free Drinks
• Mobile Couponing Catching On?
• Apple Kicks Cheating Developer Out Of The App Store That’s 1,000 Less Useless Apps Now…
• How The iPhone Could Reboot Education
• Put On Your Google Goggles And Visually Search The World
• Booyah’s Mobile App My Town Turns The Real World Into Monopoly
• All Hail The iPod Touch
• Don’t Create An iPhone App For The Online Buzz Factor

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 12/04/09

• More Than 60% Of Marketers See Mobile Video As Important Tool
• Analyst: App Store Could Hit 300,000 Apps Next Year – 299,000 of which will be completely useless crap…
• Wolfram Alpha Tries To Sell iPhone App For $50 While Mobile Web Version Is Free
• WebGL Might Eventually Bring Awesome 3D To Web Apps
• 19 Best Utility Apps For Your iPhone
• Analysts Predict 1 Billion+ Mobile Web Users By 2010
• Does The World Really Need 9 Terminator Salvation iPhone Apps?
• How Apple And iPhone Blew It In China
• App Developers Not Happy WIth Android
• Mobile Marketing Beyond The iPhone
• ReadWriteWeb’s Readers Favorite Mobile Apps
• 30 Android Apps To Watch
• iFarm iPhone Game Downloaded 1 Million Times In 10 Days
• Video Calling Comes To The iPhone. Via Fring App and Via Knocking App
• The Future Of Mobile Augmented Reality
• Applying Email Strategies To Mobile Marketing
• Android Gets An Adults Only App Store
• New Website Publicizes iPhone App Rejections
• How To Take Advantage Of Mobile Marketing

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 10/21/09

• Still Not Convinced That Mobile Web / Marketing will be huge? Check out this presentation full of stats from Mary Meeker on the explosion of Mobile
• Ochocinco Has His Own iPhone App
• WordPress Adds Themes Optimized For Mobile
• Google To Launch Its Own Phone Through Retailers (Rumor)
• Apple Sells 7.4 Million iPhones In Most Recent Quarter. Wonderful. That means we can expect another 200,000 mostly useless branded apps by end of this year
• Verizon Attacks The iPhone With The Droid
• Facebook 3.1 With Notifications Should Soon Highlight The iPhone Push Problem
• Rock Band Hits The App Store.  Finally A Useful iPhone App
• How Much Better Does A Game Look On The iPhone 3GS vs. 1st Gen iPhone? Take a look here
• Is iPhone Bad For The Videogame Industry?
• Are iPhone Apps Headed For Oblivion? Great article on the current state of the iPhone App ecosystem and it’s effect on how consumers have low price expectations for any app
• Judge: No Royalties For Music Industry Each Time A Ringtone Plays. Great use of taxpayers dollars to determine the obvious
• Google Claims Android Adoption Is About To Explode.  It’s looking more and more like the next gen Mobile OS wars are going to be Android vs. Apple
• Mobile Digital TV Standard Adopted In The U.S.A.
• Pepsi and Amp’d Were In A Bit Of A Controversy Last Week over their iPhone App
• Good Overview Of Android Handsets And Their Limitations (Warning: Very Techy…) Here’s another list that’s more marketing based and feature driven
• Female iPhone Users More Likely To Tune Out Mobile Advertising
• Xsights – Use Your Cell Phone To Turn Static Items Into Interactive Experiences

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 10/14/09

• Google Wave Is Already Works On The iPhone
• For The Mobile Web, Social Networking Is Top Dog
• Emergency Room Wait Times Delivered By RSS, Text and iPhone Apps
• How The iPhone App Store Could Stimulate The Flash Economy
• This Month’s Best Android Apps
• Puff The Magic Upskirt iPhone App Is Actually In The App Store…Apple approves things like this???
• JD Power Smartphone Satisfaction Ratings Give Apple A Win, Motorola A Big Lose…Not surprising since Motorola did nothing to innovate while riding the RAZR gravy train 5 years ago…
• Analyst: Android To Become #2 Mobile OS By 2012
• Rock Band Is Now On iPhone
• Is App Addiction A Real Thing?
• The iPhone As A Gaming Platform: Share Of Top Apps By Category
• Mobile Web Use To Double This Year

The iPhone App Store Now Has 75,000 Apps (And Counting)…Can You Find Yours?

That’s 10,000 More Apps in ONE MONTH…

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 – 09/02/09

• Kid Robot’s Mobile Scavenger Hunt
• Analysts Believe iPhone Will Be Non-Exclusive Next Year…Finally
• Jet Blue Is Killing It In Mobile
• Mobile Marketing Industry To Reach $50 Billion By 2014
• iPhone and Android Users Downloading 10 New Apps A Month
• Marketers Are Driving Development Of iPhone Apps…Is This Really A Good Thing?
• Paramount Reveals Mobile Marketing Results From Transformer’s Campaign
• Samsung Launches Corby Touchscreen Handset Targeting European Youth Market
• 97% Of iPhone Users Love Their iPhones, Hate Battery Life & AT&T