Vodafone announced its 1Q10 results on Friday and they make very interesting reading. The figures are always a useful guide to how the mobile industry’s faring and Vodafone pointed to many areas of its business that are improving after a couple of indifferent years. Turkey, India and South Africa all improved dramatically in the first [...]

Google recently announced its second-quarter results. Total revenue grew 24 percent over the year to $6.82 billion, with 23 percent growth from each of the two largest businesses — Google Web sites ($4.5 billion) and AdSense ($2.1 billion). Other sources of revenue, which include Android, grew 39 percent year-on-year to $258 million. This was lower [...]

With the World Cup now over, I was curious to see whether the mobile industry had used the event to promote new services and drive up usage. More so given that before the tournament started many retailers around the world reported healthy sales of goods and merchandise related to the World Cup.

Before the opening game [...]

On 1 July Google announced that it intends to buy flight search provider ITA Software for $700 million in cash. ITA is one of the leading providers of flight search information and bookings, competing with Amadeus, Sabre, Expedia and others. It has agreements with a large number of airlines and travel search sites including Fly.com, [...]

I recently attended a round-table event with Kevin Russell, CEO of the 3 network in the UK. If I’m brutally honest I went expecting him to repeat the usual messages. Over the past few years Kevin has been unwavering in his views that spectrum allocation and termination rates have been detrimental to 3’s business in [...]

At the recent ARE2010 show in Santa Clara, one of the leading players in augmented reality (AR), Total Immersion, pitched this logo in an attempt to help the AR community raise awareness among consumers.

Over the past years many of those involved in AR have spent a lot of time discussing what the technology actually is. [...]

On Monday I attended the M-Publishing conference in London. The event brought together decision-makers from the media and publishing industries to discuss how best to bring their services to mobile phones. Delegates debated the merits of apps and mobile Internet sites, and how to make money from mobile publishing.
If I’d been given a penny every [...]

I woke up on Monday morning excited at the prospect of going to the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris. As well as going to the event for the first time, I’d been promised a peek behind the scenes at Orange’s efforts to broadcast matches in 3D.

For the Roland Garros event Orange has teamed up [...]

The competition between Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon has become a strong force in the mobile market at present. The latest move came from Apple, which bought start-up Siri last week, taking Apple into search for the first time and strengthening the suite of technologies behind its rumoured expansion of online services later this [...]

What with that volcano and the upcoming election, the spectrum auctions in Germany and the Netherlands have gone largely unreported in the UK. In Germany, total bids for available spectrum (in 800 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands) already amount to more than €1.88 billion. Some observers estimate the final figure will [...]