Regular readers will recall that I am sharply focused on tools/technologies and companies providing personalization and recommendations solutions to mobile operators and content owners. My passion stems from my own ongoing research into content discovery and – more recently – work on a new report on mobile personalization and recommendation. (If you are a company in this space, then I invite you to contact me dir...

10 MILLION PEOPLE IN BRITAIN GET ONLINE ON THEIR MOBILE PHONES, or 20 percent of those with handsets, says some new research from Nielsen. The firm also says that smartphone ownership increased by more than 10 percent over the last three months, with 6.2 million of the devices now in use in the UK...

Judging from the high level of interest in social search-related companies and concepts - such as Taptu, abphone, and people-powered answers search from ChaCha - expressed by participants at conferences where I have spoken, I am confident social search is more than just another hot topic. In fact, this new breed of services, which combines mobile social networking fun and community with the utility of mobile searc...

Between Mobile Advertising U.K and research and interviews I am conducting for MSG's own MobiAD World Focus project, I am sharply focused on finding answers to the "big questions" in mobile advertising. The obvious question (Where is the money?) came up during last week's European Mobile Media Conference in Prague. It's not an easy one to answer, but Jonathan MacDonald, an esteemed colleague who also has a long track...

Super-charged from a super week at ThinkMobile. With 450+ attendees, the inaugural event was a huge success, and a huge part of that is to the credit of Matthew Snyder - ThinkMobile Conference Chair and Founder, & CEO of ADObjects, a strategic cross-media consultancy - who brought together an eclectic mix of professionals and practitioners. I used the opportunity to connect with some cool companies and mobile...