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Link: Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect: Removing, Supplementing Core Features.

Raku Raku 3G phone for sale in Japan – targeted at elderly users. Includes a slider where the owner can write phone book entries instead of using the elecronic address book. Taking core features such as the address book outside the phone can benefit non-literate and elderly users.

Ka-ching! Another mobile marketing purchase by Neomedia.

Link: Musings of a mobile marketer: Mobile Marketing company Sponge acquired by NeoMedia.

NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. has acquired Sponge with an aggregate of �10m consideration, including �3.45 m in cash and the remainder in NeoMedia shares with a further �2.5m available under an earn-out based on targets being reached in the next two years.

Good overview of the fusion of mobile and Web services.

Link: Russell Beattie Notebook – Helping the Mobile Mashup Discussion.

MashupCamp is actually going to have a discussion about Mobility, which I’m extremely happy to see. Here’s the current description of the session from the Wiki:

Consider the content and services that are being supported by today’s mashup API providers… events, places, relationships, media, messaging, search, commerce, and storage. Now match these with the functionality provided by the software components found on today’s most dominant device, the mobile phone. The telcos have so far failed in their attempts to provide a compelling and usable personalized experience that successfully integrates the obvious relationships between these offerings. This is a compelling opportunity that needs to be addressed by those interested in tearing down the walled gardens that have been erected by the proponents of the so-called Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).

So since I’m in London and can’t attend, I wanted to help direct this discussion a bit from here, and correct some issues I have with the description.

From the Boston area, no less.

This is following Neomedia’s various acquisitions, including 12snap (from Germany) and Mobot (from Boston area).

Eh, guess mobile marketing is alive and well on the East Coast.

Link: Business Filter – Business Weblog – The Boston Globe.

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Another Boston-based provider of mobile advertising and marketing software and services, has closed its second round of funding, adding $5 million to its coffers. The software offered by Third Screen provides a system for managing and deploying advertising on mobile devices that enables advertising agencies, publishers and carriers to plan, buy and execute mobile-advertising campaigns. They’re chasing down larger competitor m-Qube, based in Watertown.

Link: m-trends.org: 3GSM Afterwrap.

It took me a couple of days to be able to digest the whole event with it’s many cocktails and parties surrounding. The best part for me were the many wonderfull people I met behind the companies, projects and blogs.

Really interesting service.

Link: m-trends.org: Canal MiniFizz.

Cityneo and Flow – the people behind my friends in Brussels Minifizz, collaborate to launch ‘Canal MiniFizz’ targeting young mobile phone feminine users (14-25 years old).