Optimus (Orange) Portugual Promotes Tribes
One of our more recent MNO deployments of
Tribes has been with
Orange Portugal. They recenly featured Tribes in their Promotional magazine "On" as shown.
Tribes is successfully driving mobile data consumption at
Optimus by inserting our patented toolbar in the browser to bring users to content suitable to their individual needs.
Mobile Gmail is finally here
Google have done a great job in producing mobile version of Gmail. gmail on the PC web is quite rich functionally, so it was a challenge to translate all that to the tiny screen successfully.
I have had a good look and I can't find any functionality on the web that it is not supported on the mobile version. Even allows reading of the text from word file attachments on your phone.
Hopefully the same team that worked on this project can now revisit the Google mobile search problem.
Vodafone Future Products Unit Visit
Spent a day last week over with Vodafone Group in Newbury. Vodafone have set up a Future Products Innovation Unit and together with another Irish company
Changing Worlds we had an opportunity to demonstrate what we were doing to improve the mobile browsing experience.
Pictures show me demonstrating
Tribes to a representative of the Vodafone browsing Centre of Excellence based within Vodafone Spain.
Many thanks to Pat Harney from Vodafone Ireland and Alexandra Mulcahy from Enterprise Ireland for setting up the meetings.
Jumptap- another google adwords for mobile?
I have been asked to join the panel discussion on mobile content discovery at the Informa event
Mobile Direct 2 Consumer in Barcelona next year. I see that amongst the panelists is a company I hadn't heard of before called
Jumptap.
Had a look at their press releases and on first look seems to be another mobile search engine offering google adwords type placement of content. Nothing too original there as alatto's
Tribes has been providing such a service live with operators for the last 12 months in Europe. They also offer a mobile search engine that autofills your search as you type , this however looks like a java or (worse again) symbian app so at minimum requires a download of a thick client to handset. Again I much prefer the paper thin client approach of Tribes that requires no download to handsets and hence works on all handsets immediately - with
no download.
