This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is back at MobHappy - actually where it all started back in October 2005. Since then, the Carnival has thrived as a place to showcase the best writing about mobile in the blogosphere. It's great that it's still going in the same format that [...]

One of my theories, going back some time now, is that audio and mobile would make much more natural partners than the rather contrived experience of mobile and video. Here's something I wrote back in 2004 about it and I think it's stood the test of time very well. Not [...]

I was out in San Diego a while back for Qualcomm's annual BREW confab. It's pretty easy to think of Qualcomm as this monolithic and slightly nasty company that does little more than bully its way to profits with patents and intellectual property and some chips, and is only interested [...]

V.C. Advice to Entrepreneurs: Its Not All About the iPhone - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog: Though almost every discussion at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Thursday centered around the iPhone, venture capitalists told mobile entrepreneurs to broaden their focus and build applications for all [...]

Bloomberg.com: Technology: Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple's iPhone. Michael Fenger in March ended an almost six-year career at Motorola where he was a vice president [...]

MocoNews has a post on a new report from In-Stat about Google and Apple's efforts in mobile: First, he said Google is primarily using Android to push its agenda of doing location-based search, and second, the two Bay Area companies are implementing change by marketing and merchandising better, not developing [...]

The iHype continues this morning, with the world's press breathlessly repeating the Apple PR saying the company sold 1 million iPhones over the weekend. That's a decent number, and eclipses by far the first-gen model, which El Jobso is keen to remind us took 74 days to hit that model. [...]

I've mentioned before about how I think a key aspect of mobile operating systems of the near future will be the degree to and ease with which they can be customized with user interfaces. I think this is part of what's behind the recent Symbian move, for instance. But what [...]

I've seen several things worth reading over the last several days that I wanted to share… 24% of Apple iPhone users upgraded from a Motorola RAZR - SMS Text News 24% — or, almost a quarter — of those surveyed who upgraded to an iPhone, did so from a stinky [...]

It’s not just me that thinks Nokia’s a-bag-a-shite - SMS Text News: I often feel that I am the only chap on the planet calling out Nokia for piss poor innovation and ridiculous, ridiculous lack of attention to really important elements %u2014 especially when I%u2019m regularly coming into contact with [...]

I meant to post about this last week, but a hectic schedule prevented me. So, sorry if you've read about it already. The Churchill Club, is a prestigious Silicon Valley tech forum, well known (among other things) for its Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate. This year, the panel consisted [...]

Mary Meeker is the legendary Morgan Stanley analyst (aka "Queen of the Net"), whose regular state-of-the-nation reports into internet trends are eagerly awaited among the digerati as being both insightful and visionary. One of the emerging trends she points to in her most recent work (get hold of a copy!) [...]

This week saw me in San Francisco for the mega Web 2.0 event - I'm actually on my way back now. It's a huge event, with thousands of people in the cavernous Moscone Center (sic) in San Francisco. I'll be posting again when I've been through notes and caught up [...]

Yahoo! has introduced a bunch of features into its mobile oneSearch product. The one they're talking the most about seems to be the ability to use voice search. This is also about a year after Microsoft acquired voice recognition company, TellMe, to do much the same thing in a wider [...]

Fast is better than slow, Google says, when it comes to mobile. But they've got data to back that up - with a chart! They say that S60 and BlackBerry users that install their home-screen search shortcuts not only see a 40 percent increase in the speed of their search [...]

eMarketer (always a nice source of data and charts) put up a recap (via Orbitcast) of some recent Pew data about how adults in the US use their mobiles. The stats seem a little inflated across the board, but the survey claims 19 percent of adult mobile owners use the [...]

You might have noticed that Apple released an SDK for the iPhone, which will allow developers to create native applications for it. Given all our recent talk about native apps vs. web apps, it's worth mentioning (doubly so as Apple is going a different way than other platform makers by [...]

Mobile Entertainment reports that a new study by TNS Global Technology suggests that mobile radio consumption is up by 140%. And no, you cynics, TNS is not trying to sell radio equipment for mobile phones or anything so obviously manipulative - they're a respectable analyst. The study also suggests that [...]

What started out as a trickle, seems to be turning into a deluge, as operators around the world bow to the inevitable and launch ever cheaper flat rate data tariffs. Yesterday alone we saw announcements from Vodafone and O2 for the UK, which means that the other operators have to [...]