Carnival 70

This weeks Carnival of the Mobilists is at Michael Mace’s Mobile Opportunity and it’s a great one. Michael has highlighted Daniel Taylor’s piece about the recent Blackberry service outage as post of the week. Michael liked it so much he made it part of the title of his Carnival post. I agree that it is the best post of the week but hardly the only great one. I especially liked Jason Devitt’s explanation of why the prepaid MVNO business model … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists 69

This week the Carnival is at Mobile Marketing and Spam. As always it includes some of the best recent writing on mobile topics. Host Tony Norcross, has done a nice introduction to each post. Great reading. Visit the Carnival. The Carnival of the Mobilists invites YOU to participate, just email a link to your best mobile related post to mobilists at gmail dot com by midnight this Friday, US Pacific Time (GMT – 7) . To learn more about the … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists #67

photo by madridmobs, Some rights reserved. Welcome to the 67th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists – a weekly showcase of the best writing on topics related to mobile phones. The Mobile Future – We have some great items this week. To start off, many mobilists are pondering what’s next in this industry that is so rapidly evolving. Krisse at AllAboutSymbian asks, Do smartphones need to be anything more than a browser and a phone? A great look at … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists 66

The latest Mobilist’s Carnival has been posted at All About Symbian. It’s an outstanding collection of the best recent blog posts on mobile phones, software, networks and the business and marketing side of the industry, ably introduced by host Rafe Blandford. Visit the Carnival here. Next Monday, I’ll be hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists right here at Wap Review. If you’d like to participate, email a link to your best mobile related post to mobilists at gmail dot com … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists #65 at Golden Swamp

Judy Breck has posted this week’s Carnival on her very interesting site, Golden Swamp, whose theme is mobile learning. Be sure to poke around the site and read some of Judy’s pieces to learn how our society is wasting the tremendous education potential of the web including the mobile web. This is a great Carnival too. There are thought provoking pieces about Mobile Net Neutrality, Nokia’s new advertising platform, brightly colored Japanese handsets, the way mobile phones foster economic development … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists 64

The latest edition of the mobile sideshow called the Carnival of the Mobilists is up at m-trends.org, hosted by Rudy De Waele. This week the Carnival is honoring Jean Baudrillard, the great media theorist who died recently. I think Baudrillard, whose work explored the nature of reality, would have enjoyed the posts  on the artificial reality of web communities from both Michael Mace and Graham Brown. Also notable are some new mobile data statistics from Farooq Anjum. There are loads … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists at Software Everywhere

David Beers has rebooted the Carnival with an awesome collection of fresh posts in Carnival of the Mobilists version 63.01 Don’t miss this edition, it’s one of the best ever. Highlights for me include C. Enrique Ortiz’ Post of the Week winning look into the future of mobile applications and Krisse’s demolition of the whole concept of subsidized, locked phones. But don’t take my word for it, check out the Carnival for yourself at Software Everywhere