http://talkingmobile.com TalkingMobile is a professional blog for mobile news focusing on the Israeli market. The Israeli market provides a variety of technologies and opportunities in mobile and telecom in general; we are here to tell the stories and analyze them for you. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:47:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The mobile advertising market holds a big promise. According to eMarketer, mobile search ad revenues will reach $715 million in 2011 whereas mobile advertising in general  is estimated to generate billions of dollars. Having said that, mobile advertising is still in early stages and there is no verified and long-lasting model for ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/12/21/lets-talk-mobile-todacell/ For years the IMPS (Instant Messaging Presence Services) was moving nowhere. With 3G connectivity, and open OS we see more and more services that offer a rich IM experience. So is the IM market ready to grow and become a mainstream service? Two of the major players in this field provided ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/11/27/mobile-im-fring-nimbuzz/ The storage paradigm was in the center of the mobile phones market since the devices became more media capable. Mobile phones' storage capacity has rapidly grown and more and more information is being kept on the devices. Video clips, MP3's and pictures are often saved on the mobile device, while the ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/11/26/vufone-keeps-your-mobile-phones-in-sync/ It was back in January this year when Modu Mobile first revealed the video teaser, and two weeks after that release, the big announcement was made. Modu even brought a whole plane full of the start-up employees for a one day visit in 3GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Everything ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/11/21/is-modu-modufying/ Fring has announced that an ad trial is now running on some of the users around the world. Fring,  a free IM and VOIP client, did not seem to clock-in  much revenues, although the application is very popular. The ads are banners at the end of the chat window as show in ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/11/18/fring-ads-are-coming/ The web 2.0 was referring to the social and content rich web. Mobile 2.0 is a common term that is used to describe many things. It was first referring to the contextual aware network with M2M (Machine-to-Machine) direct communication. Now it is mostly use to describe the mobile interface of the Web 2.0. The ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/11/04/live-broadcasting-to-bring-mobile-and-web20-together/ The mobile web is evolving slowly to a fully PC-like web experience. That happened thanks to improved mobile web browsers such as Opera Mini, Nokia's mini map, iPhone's Safari, Etc. But the mobile web has yet a long way to go, sites are still to be optimized and most of the browsing ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/10/23/moblica-transforms-websites-into-mobile-apps/ Music download became a significant component in the mobile content ecosystem after the improvement of the connectivity speed. Download is one thing but live streaming is another story that requires a stable high speed connectivity. While most of the user's music is stored onto the PC, transferring music to the mobile phone ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/10/23/didiom-new-2-in-1-application/ The mobile market is flooded with iPhone form-factor devices, and some devices that are intended to "kill" the iPhone. Until Nokia’s Remix event it seemed that Nokia does not pay attention to the rise of the iPhone. They reasoned this position by showing recent researches showed that the potential market for iPhone-like ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/10/20/it-is-all-about-the-music/ Today, Israeli Channel 10 (second largest TV Channel in Israel) with its Internet arm nana10 (www.nana10.co.il) launched a mobile video portal - *977. The digits 977 stand for the Hebrew word for "ten" which is the name of the channel. The portal is based on 3G video calls (IVVR) that was ... http://talkingmobile.com/2008/10/16/channel-10-now-mobile-with-ivvr/