Twitter burning $115,883.88 a month?

Today’s FT article estimates Twitter is sending – conservatively – 70,000 text messages a day across its service. If, as Ed French commented on this blog, each text costs a minimum of 1p to send, Twitter is burning through 700 quid a day or $1,379.57, or $38,627.96 a month. It could in fact be three times as much if they are using a more robust SMS gateway service which costs

120pc UK mobile penetration?

Mobile Today has a neat graphic for subscriber takeup in the UK: However, where is 3? As Ed Cross says: What it looks really interesting is the total cumulative amount of subscribers in the study to be 66.7 million, this number does not consider "3", lets add maybe another 5 million for their probable share?, Tesco Mobile, Dot Mobile, and any other MVNO's i am not aware of (EasyMobile closed

Mobile is the next mass medium

Or so says Tomi Ahonen on Communities dominate brands: Mobile as the 7th mass media is as much superior to the internet, as TV is to radio. Today at 2.7 billion mobile phone users, there are three times as many mobile phones as personal computers (and over a quarter of all internet access is already from mobile phones). There are nearly twice as many mobile phones as TV sets. Twice

Koopa: no more physical music needed

It looks like Koopa – a punk trio which a mate of mine has been involved with – have now proved that real punk (the kind that really does screw the establishment) is not dead. From Reuters: Koopa is the first unsigned band to land a top 40 single — “Blag, Steal & Borrow” — that is available only by downloading it on the Internet. The breakthrough followed changes to

The best iPhone analysis

After reading a great deal about the iPhone in the last couple of days, I’d say among the best analysis has to be from Michael Mace. His analysis shows that Apple could face death outside of the US. Ironic when Europe and Asia are the real mobile markets they should have aimed at, not the ‘less dropped calls than other networks’ market of the US: This design may not go

Thoughts on the iPhone

Amid all the hoopla about the Apple iPhone there are few things that occur to me: – How will women with long fingernails – or anyone for that matter – deal with the touchscreen-only interface? – I think it’s ability to carry third party widgets puts the whole widget space into a new light. Nokia has been developing it’s own “Widsets”, but Apple now has the opportunity to mainstream widgets.

The lowdown on the iPhone

The long-rumoured Apple iPhone launches with Cingular in the US available February. Here are the features in no particular order: (Gleaned from live blogs by TUAW, Paidcontent, Crunchgear, Engadget) The good: Where do I start? It’s an amazing device. The bad: Only one: Not 3G yet. See some pix! – Actually called iPhone afterall! – Touch screen, 2 megapixel camera, will sync with iTunes – It swaps between normal and

Off to Tokyo

Next week I’m off to Tokyo, where I’ll be dunking my head into all things mobile, electronic and (I daresay) visiting the famed Akihabara area, famed for it’s geeky fascination with technology. Being a card-carrying Neophiliac and already write a column called Technofile, it’s just as well…