Well, it seems there were big ambitions, but a small turnout, for this week’s Mocollywood mobile entertainment conference in London. Here are some items I took note of during some…

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Frost & Sullivan analyst Manoj Menon has told the Mobile Content World Asia 2007 that mobile content companies in the Asia Pacific region need to think global to compete against…

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Dowling set up the first pan-European MVNO as CCO of Metero Mobile Communications and operated Ireland’s first ISP for mobile through his purchase of Meridian Communications. As non-executive chairman of…

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Valista quizzed over a hundred attendees at the Mobile Content World conference about various mobile content issues (I don’t think it’s a statistically valid sample size, but anyway...) “Over half…

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A few interviews still to write up from Mobile Content World last week. I had a quick word with Jamelia’s manager Jonathan Shalit who has sold 10 million records through…

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It’s really important to see the practice as well as talking around the theory but that’s something we don’t see enough of at conferences - the actual content. Dubplate Drama…

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Operators will have a big role in mediating between brands and their customers by helping provide targeted advertising, said Harry Hobson, a partner in the consultancy firm Fathom Partners. “Operators…

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“The mobile industry hasn’t been creative enough about promoting the its content,” according to Linda Summers, head of strategy at Red Bee. She said it should come down to basic…

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I always enjoy the youth panels - there should be plenty more of these. This panel of six was particularly diverse, including a student of latin and ancient Greek who…

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Another reoccurring theme: the focus is on made-for-mobile, on-demand content rather than live streaming. Jeremy Flynn, CEO of D2See, described mobile TV as a “dead duck” and said it’s important…

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@Mobile Content World: Finding The Money For Mobile TV Clare Tavernier, SVP Interactive for Fremantle Media, said the critical issue for mobile TV is funding. Unlike the music industry, where…

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There’s some interesting comments from Freemantle Media’s senior vp of interactive, Claire Tavernier, about mobile TV. “One of the apparent problems is that both sides of the industry, the mobile…

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Bob Schukai, VP of wireless and broadband at Turner Broadcasting, described a natural tension between broadcasters and mobile operators as “Godzilla versus King Kong”. Broadcasters have the content that operators…

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“Technology never works” muttered the MD of ITN Online while he fumbled with a stroppy Powerpoint presentation. Nicholas Wheeler gave an outline of ITN’s set up (a dedicated newsroom of…

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Operators must work with content providers because, quite simply, they have the content that consumers want. 3’s head of content partnerships Mark Nichols said customers aren’t drawn to networks or…

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Should operators stick to operating, or try and become content providers? Graham Thomas, VP of T-Mobile’s content services said the best way is to work in partnership with content providers.…

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This conference has had the worst speaker drop-out rate I’ve experienced. Partly those CTIA hangovers, perhaps, or they heard there was no wireless access… Anyway, three speakers dropped this session…

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I’ll start with my traditional conference gripes. First off, I’m going to boycott conferences with no wireless network. Judging by the turnout here, other people have had the same idea.…

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-- Jonathan Jowitt, head of multimedia development at Orange, outlined a March 2006 case study of 7,000 people trialing Orange’s music download service. There was a fairly high conversion rate…

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Familiar Apple bashing from the music industry stalwarts that are usually wheeled out at these events. Tim Clark, director of i:e Music and Robbie Williams’ manager said he’s “very pleased…

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As if CTIA wasn’t enough for conference binging, this week we’ll have coverage from Mobile Content World in London. Our LDN journo Jemima Kiss will be there, covering it in…

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In response to a posting from Mike, writing about the lack of content providers at the Mobile Content World conference going on in London this week, a comment from Gideon…

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[by Mike Butcher] Guess what? Busy executives working in the mobile content industry hardly download mobile content themselves. The shock news was revealed in an survey carried out among 100…

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[by Mike Butcher] Olivier Laury, content director of multimedia mobile, Bouygues Telecom (one of the three French GSM customers) which is, apparently, the most successful iMode service outside of Japan,…

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[by Mike Butcher] Qpass, which operates and manages whole mobile services for mobile carriers, came out with two new announcements at MCW. It claims to have hit a milestone of…

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