A Close-up View Of Mobile In Asia by Mark Walsh

Earlier this month, comScore released data essentially confirming the perception that Japan is well ahead of the U.S. and Europe when it comes to using more advanced mobile technologies. Wireless subscribers in Japan were the most connected, with three-quarters of them Web browsing, using apps and downloading content on cell phones. (The U.S was more active in certain areas, including mobile social networking.) ...Read the whole story

  • AT&T Launches Mobile Payments Trial by Mark Walsh

    The mobile payments space continued to heat up this week with AT&T entering partnerships with Boku, Zong and BilltoMobile to begin trials allowing users to make online purchases directly through their phones. This marks AT&T's most ambitious payments effort to date and could help make direct mobile billing a more mainstream activity in the U.S. ...Read the whole story

  • Verizon Pays $77 Million To Settle 'Mystery' Fees by Mark Walsh

    Verizon has agreed to pay a total of $77 million to settle complaints over so-called mystery fees charged to customers for mobile data services they didn't use. Under its consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission, Verizon will refund $52.8 million to 15 million customers incorrectly billed over the last several years and 25 million as a fine to the U.S. Treasury Department. ...Read the whole story

  • retail Department Stores Tear Into Holiday Promos by Sarah Mahoney

    More than ever, Christmas is creeping up on Halloween. From references to "doorbusters" -- a word most of America associates with the day after Thanksgiving -- in JCPenney ads during the World Series to Kohl's new holiday campaign to Target's major pre-Thanksgiving promotion, retailers are determined to get consumers shopping sooner. ...Read the whole story

  • Mobile Digital TV Adds WFLA To Mix by David Goetzl

    Media General's WFLA is offering a free 24/7 simulcast of its programming -- national and local --- to consumers with mobile devices. It becomes the first station to offer mobile digital TV in the country's 14th-largest market. ...Read the whole story

  • Knicks Call Boost Mobile Official Telcom by Karl Greenberg

    Boost Mobile will be new on the roster of team sponsors of the New York Knicks. The partnership includes a multiplatform marketing program on MSG Network for the 2010-11 season. The arrangement makes Boost Mobile the Knicks' official wireless telcom. ...Read the whole story

Red-Eying OMMA Mobile by Steve Smith

On a plane heading east after yesterday's OMMA Mobile in Los Angeles, I was trying to do a quick download of all the things I had learned throughout the day as the rest of the US Airways flight slept. I used to be able to sleep on red-eye flights, but now it is just work time. I am sure as the days progress and I catch up on some sleep the takeaways will be more numerous and detailed. But there were some themes reiterated throughout the day that really stuck with me, even at 3 a.m. somewhere over the Rock ...More

  • HTML5 Coming On Strong by Steve Smith

    Some of us Mediaposties spent the last two days on the left coast hosting the OMMA Entertainment and OMMA Mobile shows in LA. Two themes cut across both shows. First brands love video and seem to have every intention of investing more in it. Second, all eyes are on mobility and especially the migration of video off of the Web. ...More