Thomas Koeppen Blog

The mobile Web is having its time in the limelight. There are mobile applications with us for quite some time. You can send text messages to check your remaining prepaid minutes, you can send Twitter messages from mobile or can send TANs for phone banking. As the first device the iPhone integrates traditional phone capabilities [...]

According to a recent study of TNS Technology the mobile instant message is set to cannibalise SMS (texting) and eventually email from PC. The TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) study has found that once mobile users adopt MIM (mobile instant message) it overtakes other messaging tools. Study results: * 8% of all mobile users globally [...]

Tomi Ahonen dissecting on his communities_dominate.blogs.com the latest “Asia-Pacific wide survey of 16,000 consumers in 29 countries by TNS Global”, May 2008. Percent No. of People Notes SMS 88% 1.23B More than the total number of email (or IM Instant Messaging) on the internet worldwide Games 71% 994M close to 1B Camera 61% 854M 98% [...]

In August 2005 the search giant Google acquired the startup Android for Its Mobile Arsenal, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, “the next frontier in search”. Now two years later (in November 2007) Google announced their Open Handset Alliance: http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/ Instead of using the standards-based Java Micro Edition (JME) as an [...]

Consulting Group Releases Top 10 Predictions For The Wireless Industry InCode, a subsidiary of VeriSign that specializes in wireless business and technology consulting, on Wednesday released its top 10 predictions for major trends in the wireless industry next year. Verizon Wireless last month shocked the U.S. wireless industry, announcing that starting next year it will [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks, in partnership with the Heinrich Hertz Institut (HHI), reported mobile data rates up to 173 Mbps in a multi-user field trial of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in an urban environment using the 2.6 GHz spectrum band. Nokia Siemens Networks said the test confirms that LTE performance requirements can be met using [...]

CTIA Wireless starts blogging, welcome to the blogosphere: see: http://www.ctia.org/blog/