ChangingWorlds, the global expert in mobile data personalization and subscriber intelligence for mobile operators, today announced a new deal that will launch a personalized Mobile Internet service for the Telefónica O2 Czech Republic.  ChangingWorlds has worked with O2 UK and O2 Germany for many years but this is the first implementation with O2 Czech Republic. (more…)

AUSTRALIA’S mandatory net filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified “unwanted content”. Some 1300 websites have already been identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Communications Minister Senator Conroy revealed details of the Rudd Government’s proposed web filter as he called for expressions of interest from internet service providers (ISPs) for a live trial of the technology, the Courier-Mail reports. (more…)

Ninety-eight percent of iPhone subscribers use at least one mobile data service according to market research firm The Nielsen Company’s Q3 2008 U.S. iPhone Executive Overview. Seventy percent of iPhone users listen to audio tracks on their device, with 39 percent downloading music directly to the handset–66 percent of users download software and applications, and 35 percent screen video content, which Nielsen says makes them seven times as likely as the typical mobile subscriber. (more…)

American Airlines launched Aircell’s inflight mobile broadband service, Gogo. Effective today, passengers traveling on American’s Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay a nominal fee for Web access on select flights from New York to San Francisco, New York to Los Angeles and New York to Miami. (more…)

Nielsen released the first comparable U.S. figures showing video and TV usage across the ‘three screens’ - Television, Internet and Mobile devices. Analysts’s findings show that screen time of the average American
continues to increase with TV users watching more TV than ever before (127 hrs, 15 min per month), while also spending 9% more time using the Internet (26 hrs, 26 min per month) from last year. At the same time, a small but growing number of Internet and mobile phone users are watching video online (2 hrs, 19 min per month), as well as using their cell phones to watch video (3 hrs, 15 min per month). (more…)

TM Forum, the world’s largest trade association focused on managing communications and media services, will host Management World Africa (Johannesburg, July 14-17 2008)  to focus on challenges facing the rapidly expanding African communications market. The TM Forum pools the expertise of over 700 service providers and suppliers from 75 countries to share best practices on creating and delivering new services. With the rapid growth of communications services in Africa, service provider experiences from other parts of the world who have already cut costs in their infrastructure and service rollouts, will be of significant interest to African operators. (more…)

Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total $65.2 billion in 2008, which represents nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media. With IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast projecting 15-20% annual growth throughout the forecast period, this share will reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 billion worldwide. (more…)

My first impression is that this story is written by someone that should be looking after it’s grandchildren. Look:”The lack of high-speed Internet access in some areas of the U.S. has been hotly debated, even as that digital divide has narrowed. But a new, wider gap is being created by technology that will make today’s broadband feel as slow as a dial-up connection“. This is quoted without permission, from AP.Now let me translate this. (more…)

Vodafone Romania launches the Vodafone Internet on Mobile service, which offers customers faster and easier access to the Internet, on their mobile, as well as enriched content.
This is another step to sustain Vodafone’s strategy on mobile data services following the successful launch of Vodafone Mobile Connect new offerings. (more…)

Microsoft demonstrated the power of its platform to enable delivery of richer, more interactive customer experiences on the Web. Backed by major customers including AOL, Aston Martin, Cirque du Soleil, Hard Rock and NBCOlympics.com on MSN, Microsoft unveiled the next generation of its Web technologies with beta releases of Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2. Additional MIX08 news included a preview of Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, the announcement of a strategic relationship with Move Networks Inc., and DoubleClick Inc.’s preview of its Silverlight 2 software development kit (SDK) for in-stream advertising. (more…)