Category Archives: Mobile

The latest news, stats, opinion & futures for Mobile advertising & marketing, in the UK & abroad.

Augmented Reality Language Translation

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Augmented reality technology starts to deliver on it's promises.

Like many in the Media, MBA have been watching the nascent augmented reality industry begin to find it’s feet over the last couple of years, without ever really seeing the killer application that’s going to tip it  from novelty into something that really adds value … Read More

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Santa’s New Helper

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Barcode Hero have brought out  a new form of Christmas wish list, they’ve developed an application for children which allows them to scan the barcodes of items they want for Christmas using an iPhone. The application then makes a ‘wish list’ out of all the … Read More

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Everything these days starts with i…

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UPDATE: It has been confirmed by a source at the Independent that in addition to the iPad application, i will have its very own iPhone and Android applications. These will be available early November. Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev announced yesterday that they will next week … Read More

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Apple relaxes its iOS development restrictions

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We’ve already touched on Apple publishing clearer overall guidelines for their developers but here’s the other big change announced at the same time… Last week Apple made a few choice changes to its iOS Developer License Agreement. These revolved around restrictions placed on developers creating … Read More

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So, not much happening then…

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Luckily there’s 45 of us in MBA to keep on top of things. A quick look at 7 key things from the last 7 days sees the following: Book publishing takes another subtle turn, thanks to Stephen Fry Tools such as Seesmic keep having newer … Read More

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3 Things Unique to Mobile Growth This Year

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Each year Mediacom produce a factbook, this is a really useful update on all media which a whole raft load of great content. This year I have produced the ‘Three things’ article below for mobile. To my mind these are the three most important things mobile … Read More

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Thoughts on the new iPhone 4

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From our mobile investment specialist George Dixon, some info from Apple’s iPhone 4 announcements yesterday: A good day for Apple yesterday as it (finally) launched its new iPhone 4. This comes despite the leaks over the last months, stories of suicide at its production plant and technical … Read More

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MediaCom shortlisted for mobile NMA Award

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Some good news for us – our sterling work on the launch of the Natwest iPhone app has been shortlisted for “Best use of Mobile” and also in the “Best online and personal banking” category at this years NMA Awards. Update – 25 June: We … Read More

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iPhone used as a games controller for the iPad

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PadRacer being played on the iPad & iPod touch/iPhone

As a gamer and one who loves new technology, I was quite excited when I read about an app developer modifying existing games he’d produced, so that the iPhone/iPod touch could be used a controller for the iPad. As far as I’m aware this type … Read More

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Why the new Apple OS changes mobile advertising

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Yesterday Steve Jobs announced the launch of the new Apple iphone operating system OS4.0. The new operating system enables some smart enhancements for users such as being able to have multiple apps open simultaneously.The OS was long awaited and no real suprise however there was … Read More

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