What's New In Marketing - E-Marketing Insights: "E-Marketing Insights"

Great insight here and great article surrounding emarketing.

More mobile phones than people in the UK: "More mobile phones than people in the UK

Recently collated Christmas sales figures are revealing that the number of mobile phones currently in circulation in the UK is greater than its population size. The new total is based on the number of contract and prepay subscriptions and is further evidence of the significant mobile data growth witnessed in the past 2 years, coming after just 11 years of digital mobile cellular services being available in the UK."

Well this kind of makes sence... how many businesses make sure their employees cannot use their mobile phones for personal use, and then cannot use 3g/blackberry devices for voice tariffs? As people wise up to PAYG sims for other countries people will be buying GSM phones and using these in other countries. At present, people signed up to T-mobile, 3, Orange will find their phone won't work with another providers network - 02 and Voda yes you can get cheap tariffs PAYG sims rather than paying stoopid amounts for roaming. So take up of handsets and Sims would be cheaper abroad, or people buy GSM and travel with them (as a spare handset). Of course the killer question is upgrading - do you pay or port to another providers SIM and then port back again.

O2 falls for Blackberry 'Charm' | The Register: "The handset also features a quad-band GSM/GPRS radio, Bluetooth
connectivity for headsets and in-car systems, polyphonic ringtone
support, 4MB of SRAM and 32MB of Flash memory. There's a 'large and
bright, high-resolution' colour LCD, and battery power sufficient for
four hours' talk time and over eight days on stand-by."

Very nice handset by the looks of it, i prefer the sleek black to Voda's grey, but hey, powerful phone with all the trimmings. Only 32mb of flash memory which really isn't a lot in this day and age and for a business user - that's nothing at all as there's other phones on the market like the K700i with 64mb and the D500 with 80mb.

Google Blogoscoped: "'[Google Inc.] looks set to launch a free telephone service that links users via a broadband internet connection using a headset and home computer.

The technology that will enable Google to move in on the market has been around for some time. Software by the London-based company, Skype, has been downloaded nearly 54 million times around the world but no large telecommunication firms have properly exploited it. (...)

Although Google is reluctant to talk about its plans, the logical use of such a network would be to help to support a new telephone service'
-- Elizabeth Judge, Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT (TimesOnline), January 24, 2005"

hehe... nice one, skype is a eally good program eventually it will be prone to exploits, like Mozilla as people download and use it by the hundreds. What will happen is telecom providers will be trying to make a small take on line rental. Oh well. Will skype be more open source and thus have updates as and when to keep it secure? Probably not.

Google Raises Word Limit to 32: "Google greatly advances its web search by raising the word limit to 32 words. Previously, only up to 10 words were allowed. While some may never have wanted to cross the 10-word limit, it can be crucial to different tasks:"

nice move - though I've used upto 10 before this can help with some really indepth research I've only ever used Lexis Nexis for.

SimWorks news and press releases "Once a user installs Gavno they may find it difficult if not impossible to repair. The instability that it introduces into the phone's operating system can be so severe that it effectively disables all applications on the phone and often results in the phone continually rebooting itself."

Bad news, but I think this one will be nasty.. pity it's hitting nokia and it's new breath of fresh air business/high end consumer phones. Well, maybe it will clue people up to be more engaged with their phone and think about stuff they put on it as well as preventative measures. Personally, I cannot wait til encryption 'over the air'.

eBay item 5552296812 (Ends 30-Jan-05 23:47:53 GMT) - Absolutely Nothing: "For Sale: Absolutely Nothing.



Do you have too much stuff? Nowhere to put all your auction buys? Too much money?

Well this auction is for you!"

ahaaha.. nice one Current bid @ £1,000,100.00 - bargain. Perhaps it's better ROI than voting for George Bush or President Blair :-D

Yahoo! News - Professor's Saturn Experiment Forgotten: "Professor's Saturn Experiment Forgotten

Thu Jan 20, 6:15 PM ET

Add to My Yahoo! Science - AP

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Writer

SPOKANE, Wash. - David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon."

The Winds of change. Bad news story, pity as many excellent space exploration programs seem to fail due to error or communication. Saturn's always intriged me and finding out more about it would have been a major revelation.

Orange at a crossroads - report: "Orange at a crossroads - report

After a decade of growth, Orange, one of the world's largest mobile phone operators, is at a strategic crossroads, where it faces the prospect of slower growth and diminishing revenues unless it pushes for international expansion, taking advantage of markets where it currently has a presence and expanding into other neighboring markets as opportunities present themselves, reports In-Stat. How Orange acts in the next year will likely determine its direction and growth prospects for the next decade."

A new report out - but by the looks of things it needs some more substance. I guess something offered by Informa may be of more interest. www.telecoms.com

T-Mobile Mulls Cutting Up To 2,200 Jobs In Europe

Wow.. T-mobile fairing badly in mainland europe. I guess if Three are offering really good handsets @ next to nothing to increase take up.. one of the biggies is gonna fall.

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Latent Semantic Indexing: "LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING

Taking a Holistic View

Regular keyword searches approach a document collection with a kind of accountant mentality: a document contains a given word or it doesn't, with no middle ground. We create a result set by looking through each document in turn for certain keywords and phrases, tossing aside any documents that don't contain them, and ordering the rest based on some ranking system. Each document stands alone in judgement before the search algorithm - there is no interdependence of any kind between documents, which are evaluated solely on their contents."

Huge document on how Google works... very sizable article, very interesting but, very long!

Forrester Research evaluates US mobile data service providers: "Forrester Research evaluates US mobile data service providers

Over the past two and half years, the 2.5/3G mobile data services market in the US has grown from nothing to a market worth an estimated 1.5 billion dollars by the end of 2006. A new report from Forrester Research assesses the progress of the major US business services providers -- AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, and Verizon Wireless -- and finds that the market is still anyone's game."

Good news for US market, sad news for the UK market. However @ present Europe leads in terms of text and other value services.

Love it, hate it. Tribal launches Marmite site to delight and entertain on the web : E-consultancy.com

I love it.. excellent idea from the really marketing lead company. i still think it's brand lead only... for veggies this product rawks...

Are You Getting The Most From Your Meta Tags

Excellent advice that I could not give better about using metatags to your advantage. I do think the empathsis is rather big here. in my experience the KEYWORD war frenzy is a thing of the past. The main search engines have shifted thier algorithms more on linking, traffic and relevance.

InfoWorld: Samsung's latest cell phone senses 3-D movements: January 13, 2005: By : NETWORKING:Samsung Electronics has developed a cell phone that can sense movement in three dimensions and respond to those movements by performing actions such as dialling numbers or ending a call, the company said Thursday.

Shaking the phone twice will end a call or delete a message. Other movement functions programmed into the handset include a sharp move to the right or left to tell the built-in MP3 music player to skip forward or back a track, while drawing a 'O' or 'X' in the air makes the phone say 'Yes' or 'No' out loud, the company said."

Cool idea, but I think the voice to SMS text is a cool idea, i think somethign which uses shaking movement is going to harder for handsets to be insured. I guess it's like insuraing "Whack a squirrel" machine @ the circus against denting!

I'm sure the shake facility will be enjoyed by everyone running for a train or running while calling friends. I think spacial technology is just a run on from character recognition. A bluetooth pen which senses movement would be a lot better thaan the handset being moved.

Secret Service Reveals Its Records Stolen By Hacker: "Secret Service Reveals Its Records Stolen By Hacker

WASHINGTON (AP)--A hacker broke into a wireless carrier's network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the U.S. Secret Service agent investigating the hacker, the government said Wednesday...Cavicchia,.. won the Secret Service's medal of valor for his actions in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks,"

hahhaa.... well if anything this shows that personal mobile voice should always have encryption anyway, it's becuase governments want things easy, that this lack of secrurty happens. Perhaps all security personnel should not get given free voice calls, but only PAYG. Would also cut back on expenditure on the war on terror!

Testing 3G networks using Nokia handsets: "The Nokia 6630 subscriber phone is one of the most popular 3G phones being sold by European and Asian operators. X-TEL is proud to be one of the first to offer leading edge drive test solutions based on Nokia's 6630 3G mobile phone," said James Richie, CEO of X-TEL. "X-TEL now supports more than 40 test phones and scanners to ensure that the operators are testing the networks with the phones actually used in the networks."

This is the phone, if it was in little britian "I want that one". Very nice phone indeed. I hope symbian will in its rawer form clue up handset users into being a lot more teckie. This handset rawks though... nice 1.4mp cam!

Skype: "

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WHOOT, the new version of SKYPE is out. Better MSN like functionality and a host more (but aminly on the messaging side). Have to get this installed for various divisions in the company. Wish me luck!

ClickZ Experts on Paid Search Strategies: "I'm sure some of you would love to get more funds allocated for all types of search marketing, both paid and organic. Pay-per-click (PPC) search return on investment (ROI) is completely under your control, whether directly or through an outside provider. So pitching PPC search to your boss, investors, even the team that would manage the campaigns is fairly easy."

Very interesting article that outlines PPC and natural Search SEO when you're hoping to put this to your boss. Found it very clear, outlining marketing issues and SEO in general I'd not found elsewhere.

MSN Malaysia - Mobile Central: Nokia 7700 review & price list.
Great selection of phones coming out of East Asia. It's a pity Symbian compatibility with accessories hasn't been taken more seriously in the far east. Great reviews and reasonably good specs. Recommended

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The VKB gets a mention on SlashDot. Very interesting piece of equipment, especially when space is at a premium.

Samsung launches speech-to-SMS phone | The Register: "CES 2005 Samsung Electronics has
developed a mobile phone that automatically converts speech into text.
Rather than rely on cramming words in tiny fonts onto a small screen,
users can just dictate. Samsung's new technology - VoiceMode - is
incorporated in the new Samsung p207 phone, which will initially be
shipped to the US."

Excellent - at last some functionality that matches users desires. Although when 2G has had its day, i guess leaving a voicemessage will be the cheap version of texting :-D Sounds promising from Samsung who've not embraced BlueTooth as a viable concept with their D500's!

Graff� Forums - Computers - Unsecure networks Google = fun

There's a new craze on the net.. looking into other people's web-cams. It's another one of those things where web masters should look who's accessing off site data and securing it. Seems like fun, though doubt the legality of it. All the cams can be found via a google search!

MSN Malaysia - Mobile Central: Not a bad page on MSN with reasonably informed reviews. Only trouble is, are they really upto date with Sony Phones?