Even though it's 2008, syncing contacts and other info still sucks. Various pieces of the puzzle are there, but it seems like they rarely all come together. SyncML is great, if you can use somebody like Zyb, and your handset is supported. But there are still far too many handsets [...]

Hard on the heels of yesterday's announcement from Google that the launch of Android would be delayed from the second quarter to the fourth, is a potentially huge one from Symbian that could make Android completely irrelevant when devices eventually do start to ship. It's too early to see exactly [...]

Today, the Mobile Marketing Association announced the results of the EMEA Board of Directors election, held back in March and for which I asked for your support here at MobHappy. I'm delighted to announce that not only did I get elected in the face of some very tough competition, but [...]

It's a sign of things really taking off when a mainstream publisher starts taking an interest. So it's great to see Mobile Internet for Dummies being launched. Even better is that I know a few of the five authors (Dan Appelquist of Vodafone, Michael O'Farrell of the dotMobi Advisory Group [...]

Vodafone Sets Up "innovation Lab" with China Mobile & Softbank: China Mobile, Japan's Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. The three companies expect the initiative will help to accelerate the commercial deployment of [...]

Luca Passani is a mobile tech guru and the guy behind WURFL - if you don't know, WURFL is an open source project that allows mobile developers to identify which mobile phone a mobile web page is being viewed on. In layman's terms (the only way I understand it), this [...]

One of the keynotes given at last week's Mobile Marketing Forum was given by Adhish Kulkarni (Buongiorno) and Karim Khalifi of Vodafone Egypt, about the various marketing activities that Vodafone has been up to over there. One of the products they talked about was the very clever "Please Call Me" [...]

I pointed out on Monday how Dennis at Wap Review had discovered that Sprint has rolled out a lovely transcoder - a la Vodafone - that sends a dummy user agent to web sites, instead of the proper user agent of their customers' handsets. The latest update was that people [...]

As you might imagine, I subscribe to plenty of RSS feeds and news searches and whatnot about the mobile industry, and sometimes they pull up some, uh, interesting stuff. Like this one: http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29766.php?source=rss - cellular-news The local government which manages the main roads leading to Vodafone's international headquarters campus in [...]