Discovering the Mobile Adult Content Congress, Responsible Delivery Of Content To The Mobile Phone which took place recently, I was intrigued to see that Vodafone's Tina Southall is a speaker there. Is the adult business looking for respectability or is it the other way round - all major telecom platforms need content and sex sells best?

The website puts it that way:

The demand for adult content services is growing. Mobile operators see this tremendous opportunity for revenue growth while realizing the added social responsibility to control and monitor delivery.

The Mobile Adult Content Congress (MACC) will examine in detail the opportunities and possible pitfalls of delivering adult content to the mobile phone.

Update:
See also the Mopocket.com's comments on that.
Via Smartmobs

Korean Edaily. Some screenshots, but I have no idea what they are talking about. Can anyone read Korean?

By the way:
Kaywa has now an optimised version of some Kaywa blogs for the Playstation Portable (PSP). I'll soon post a photo.

After Swisscom, it's now up to Sunrise to change their CEO. Interesting point: Both CEO's are not Swiss nationals.



Sunrise's Hans Peter Baumgartner is replaced by Jesper Theill Eriksen.
Press release Sunrise



Last Friday Swisscom's CEO Jens Alder was replaced by Carsten Schloter.
Press release Swisscom

Mobile Marketing, Universität Mannheim

• Location Based Services in Deutschland. Eine qualitative Marktanalyse auf Basis von Experteninterviews
• User Requirements for Location Based Services. An analysis on the basis of literature
• Bestimmungsfaktoren der Konsumentenakzeptanz von Mobile Marketing in Deutschland. Eine empirische Untersuchung
• Effective Mobile Marketing. Eine empirische Untersuchung
• mCommerce in der Tourismusindustrie. Potenziale, Risiken und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen

Skype having prepared the terrain, there are now other companies in the once gated telco field emerging...

Wengo via Martin

Fon - Fon Weblog. Martin Varsavsky asked me if Switzerland is prepared for the Fon revolution. My answer to him was a complicated one;)

PS: Read Bruno Giussani's Skype Interview with Nicolas Zennström about supernodes.

As it is not possible to order japanese PSP titles through Amazon Japan - and if you read this blog you probably know what I was looking for -, I had to find another solution.

Jean Snow directed me to www.lik-sang.com.


One of the games is Train Simulator which simulates a train ride through Tokyo (Keisei Line, Toei Line, Keikyu Line) ( train map).

neoPIM offers a synchronisation service of your personal date contained in your mobile phone.

neoPiM offre un service de synchronisation des données personnelles contenues dans votre téléphone portable.

[...]

En plus de notre service de synchronisation, nous vous offrons la possibilité de gérer vos données sur un compte personnalisé et sécurisé sur Internet.
Ce compte appelé PIM (Personal Information Management) offre de multiples possibilités:

• accès direct à toutes vos données sur Internet
• gestion de vos contacts : éditer, modifier, envoyer des messages automatiquement
• gestion de votre agenda : vous pouvez gérer votre agenda directement sur votre PIM puis, en synchronisant votre téléphone, vous recevrez sur ce dernier tous vos rendez-vous avec les alarmes correspondantes.
• Partage de données entre plusieurs téléphones : vous pouvez partager vos données entre vos différents téléphones.

Via Emily

iPod and Sony Playstation Portable users will be able to download and watch any non-copy-protected content from Google Video, and even get it specially optimized for playback on their devices. The Google Video Homepage will be accessible throughout the world soon however purchasing premium content in the Google Video Store will, initially, only be available in the U.S.

From ITN partners Google in Video Store

Dial-up bar codes let buyers beware

Toshiba Corp. has developed software that lets shoppers use their phones to check the reputations of products on the Internet. Shoppers only need to use the phone's built-in digital camera to take a photo of the product bar-code label.

Commercial application is expected to begin in fiscal 2006 after further testing at electric appliance retailers and bookstores from February. The service will cover products that consumers are particularly concerned about, including consumer electronics products, food, books, CDs, DVDs and cosmetics. Bar codes on about 400,000 products can be scanned.

When the cellphone camera shoots the bar code, the information is automatically sent to a server, which then searches through blogs, or diary-like Web sites, for reviews.

Via Emily

Mobile Business
Vom Geschäftsmodell zum Geschäftserfolg - Mit Fallbeispielen zu Mobile Marketing, mobilen Portalen und Content-Anbietern
2005. XXVI, 466 S. Geb.
ISBN: 3-409-03400-5

The introduction in german (PDF) is quite informative.

Interesting number: Today 35% of the users already have mobile devices which give access to the mobile internet. Till 2008 everybody will probably have such a mobile phone.