The Mobile Content Consumer Education Campaign initated by the AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group kicked off activities with an industry briefing held last week in Sydney. Full details (including the briefing presentation) are available from the AIMIA website.
The education campaign will be focussing on these questions:

What is mobile content?
Why engage with mobile content?
How much […]

Mobile Media Show #21 (MP3 – 7.2MB – 21min)
My guest on the show is Ross Dawson, a consultant and commentator on the global network economy.
He recently made comment on the suitability of mobile phones for social networking and how Australia is lagging behind this trend due to high data charges imposed by the telcos, arguing […]

Part of the challenge of making presentations about mobile content is deciding how to best show what is on my phone.
The phone projector technology seems to be still quite rudimentary. I’ve only seen one system that works well and it is a small plastic unit that slips over the phone screen, thus capturing the screen […]

Mobile Media - an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies.
2-4 July 2007
The University of Sydney, Australia
Barely twenty-five years since their commercial introduction, mobile cellular phones are widely used around the world. Having become an important technology for voice and text communication in the daily lives of […]

The success of Frank Chindamo, from Fun Little Movies, in convincing a major brand like Toyota to sponsor a comedy series for mobile phones - called The Pool - should give heart to creative people looking to make original content.
This step demonstrates how brands can finance the production of content directly, by-passing the traditional (heritage) […]

Apologies for the break in transmission over the past few weeks, sometimes life gets in the way. During my absence I have acquired a new imac G5 and want to express my pleasure at the way the inbuilt bluetooth communicates so nicely with my phone. It makes transferring files and installing software on the […]

The4thScreen: a global fest of art & innovation for mobile phones focuses on the emerging cultural, technological and social phenomenon of mobile phones.
“We are at the moment when everybody, from the media moguls to Vietnamese peasants - artists, hackers, activists, businesses and governments are trying to grasp the impact, the power, of this […]

Mobile Content World seemed to start with an air of excitement this year, as many familiar faces re-acquainted at Sydney’s Star City Casino for 2 days of panels and presentations on mobile content in Australia.
The enthusiasm may have been dampened by Gary Hayes in his keynote address saying that perhaps the industry has not grown […]

ORGANIZED BY ART CENTER NABI - SEOUL, KOREA
The progress of mobile technology characterized by mobility, connectivity, and dispersion seems to resonate with the diasporic experiences of Asians who are mobile, dispersed yet connected with each other through socio-cultural dynamics and relations.  With the mobile market and its culture expanding beyond Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan […]

Mobile Content World is happening again and is a worthy event to attend if you’re in the mobile content industry. Here is the blurb from the organisers:
Delegates will meet industry pioneers and discuss the great hopes of mobile content, discovering how they intend to roll out mobile TV, and how to leverage and monetise the […]