http://www.viooli.com/blog Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:13:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vioolicomhttp://feedburner.google.com Auch nach Deutschland..frohen 4ten Juli! Falls das Wetter heute ist werde ich heute diese Aussicht geniessen. http://www.viooli.com/blog/happy-4th-of-july/ More and more market trends are lately released about the mobile industry.  First Erick Schonfeld reportet that the majority of cel phone industry profits are earned by Apple and Blackberry (RIM). Blackberry is leading the pack with increasing its market share up to 35 percent in 2009. Togehter with Apple ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/the-mobile-revolution-winners/ After looking at the Iphone flowers app the other day, I saw another app in the NYTimes, which falls under the same theme:The Tree identification app, which allows to find leaves by matching them:Still a prototype and financed by the National Science Foundation is this electronic field guide. Pretty damn ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/electronic-field-guide/ I haven't really followed much the innovative side of the mobile e-commerce industry even that I  know thata ton of innovation is happening there. An interesting case stuff was recently published by the MMA Global:ECI, a part of the Bertelsmann Group (Randomhouse) was trying to sell more memberships through a ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/mobile-book-club-case-study/ Not really something for father's day, but I just saw a funny Iphone App called Flower Garden.The idea of the app is pretty funny: It's basically a garden simulator where you start growing flowers and depending on your seeds, it's easy or difficult. Seemslike the old-school Tamagotchi, which made it's ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/flower-garden-iphone-app/ The other day I was buying some stuff on Ebay, which resulted in the Ebay Feedback Email, which basically asked me to log into my Ebay account and then click on the feedback tab and then leave some commenet on a recent buy.Sounds all great, but how many people are ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/mobile-strategies-in-e-commerce/ Since my BB was too quiet  and the city is just too loud, I was looking into getting some in ear headphones, which would allow me to use the BB in New York, London, Berlin or wherever I am at and kill the noise around me. First I checked out ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/active-noise-cancelling-in-ear-headphones/ Google announced the G2 and gave it away to 4000 developers at their I/O conference. It looks pretty solid to me and I really consider getting it since the apps on the blackberry are not really exciting and an Iphone without a keyboard are not really interesting to me. http://www.viooli.com/blog/g2/ A little offtopic, but the past few days I was looking at an Iphone / Itouch charger, so I finally can get that little gadget charged again. The entire process with charging my Itouch with a USB cable is just no fun and super time intensive.I checked out a few ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/itouch-charger/ Interesting move from my friends over at Bango.com - They've helped to launch m.Ringtones.com. Bango, who besides a mobile analytics solution, runs a Wap payment system,  apparently powers their payment system. For the price of $9.99 a month the ringtones clients can download more than 35000 tracks.Sounds pretty cool for ... http://www.viooli.com/blog/bango-mobile-now-powering-mringtonescom/