February was filled with events of the mobile phone industry – the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, which at the same time was the frame for the presentation of the International Mobile Gaming Awards. At the Independent Games Festival at San Francisco a lot of awards were handed out, too.

Not only Mobile [...]

In a current study of TNS Emnid ordered by the German mobile phone provider E-Plus, the mobile usage in January 2008 was compared to that in January 2007. 1.052 mobile phone users in all were interviewed.
Percentage of the mobile users who use their mobile phone to…
… surf: 13.7% (previous year: 4.0%)
… download music: 15.2% (previous [...]

The new killer application for mobile – it seems to be definite. Experts are in agreement. There’s no talk of Mobile TV, which indeed in Germany has received impetus during the last months, but has moved no small number of subscribers to dissatisfaction and so to a fast termination. There’s talk of GPS, short for [...]

Microsoft tout for Yahoo!. One of the biggest acquisitions in the internet chronicles looms. Naturally there are many speculations and in the spotlight what associate both companies and what are their chances to compete Google. Additional there leaves a question about the destination of the brand Yahoo and what will remain of it after that [...]