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MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #2, 2006

Published in April 17th, 2006

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The winter has passed fast living in the ‘fast lane’ with the mobile industry doing extremely well. Hopefully the young ones will believe me when I say that this all will come to an end at some point. Cycles have not gone anywhere, they still exist. Wise are those who are holding a sustainable job [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #1, 2006

Published in February 9th, 2006

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The New Year is starting with a bang and many of us are gearing up for a successful 3GSM in Barcelona next week. The glacier is starting to finally melt and there are some major new technologies and application areas starting to take off. Many of those were invented in the late 90s when I [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #10, 2005

Published in December 29th, 2005

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It was in November 2005 – I was at a bar in Kiev, Ukraine. I am on a business trip in a land of Bentleys and a missing middle-class. Around 2am a young lady sitting at the bar looks at me between puffs from her waterpipe and clearly wants to say something. I approach her [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #8, 2005

Published in September 10th, 2005

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The steam is gathering on the US mobile content market, I guess we will all know a lot more after the CTIA show in San Francisco in two weeks’ time. The market right now is a bit like the Gulf Coast ten days after the hurricane – thousands of new troops are moving in to [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #7, 2005

Published in August 8th, 2005

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I took a month off in publishing the newsletter – I should have told you in advance as so many are requesting it which is a humbling experience. You all must have seen what happened to the Infospace stock a week ago – down 30 percent. I wrote about the Infospace lack of wireless strategy [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #5, 2005

Published in June 13th, 2005

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In the past month I have had the opportunity to discuss with many leading players and witness the emergence of the off-portal distribution market for mobile content in the U.S. Although there is still significant resistance in the operator community towards opening the floodgates to free competition a lot of players are betting on the [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #4, 2005

Published in May 10th, 2005

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Last week I visited one of the leading recording studios in Santa Monica and I was introduced to one of the founders. It struck me that a music industry professional like him, nose glued into the mixing table, was intimately aware of the ring tone business opportunity. We have seemingly come a long way making [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #3, 2005

Published in April 5th, 2005

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Not to be too excited but March was indeed quite a month. The CTIA show in New Orleans was an extraordinary show of mobile data excitement finally hitting the mainstream. Further in the week in Santa Monica at Digital Hollywood digital media executives were pondering questions they did not know to exist a year ago. [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #2, 2005

Published in March 5th, 2005

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I just returned from my trip to Japan and Korea. I had to go and see Korea in particular as it is rumored to have an amazing lead over the rest of the world. True enough, they are ahead and there are some interesting phenomena emerging. The question is how they can play in the [...]

MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch #1, 2005

Published in January 5th, 2005

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Back in the blogging game again… I don’t understand how some people can do this as if it were their main occupation… I simply did not have the time in 2004.So – there is a little bubble developing out there again, are we all gonna get rich (again)? Everybody and their mother are launching mobile [...]

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