Sony Ericsson's Project Capuchin

The platform enables flash UI execution within the J2ME environment. Doc & Tools are available here.

VZW increases fee on SMS aggregators

Update: VZW says it has not decided if the fee will be increased... backing down?!

1 cent to 4 cents. So a $10,000 campaign will costs $40,000. Huge jump. This does not affect consumers. VZW is the first one to raise the fee which send shockwave to the advert. & marketing industry.

Smartphone Q2 2008 Market Share by Sales

Google to be VZN search partner

Google is already Sprint's search partner. Will this mean that VZN will eventually like to adapt Android.

Sprint launch NFL video app

This Java-based app is powered by Hands-On Mobile which has already launched multiple sport related apps (NBA, NASCAR, CBS Sports). This will only be available on Moto RAZR VE20 at this point. NFL is aggressively targeting the mobile segment. The announcment did validate the fact that Sprint is still only interested in Java platform at this point - probably the by product from the Sprint Nextel merger.

Mobile Ad market

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Mobile ad. revenue already reached $1B this year, and expected to reach to $7.6B by 2013. Ad spending on mobile TV services is expected to grow from $335 million to more than $2.5 billion in 2013. Idle-screen advertising will grow from $7 million this year to more than $500 million by 2013, according to Juniper.