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MDA guest column on MSearchGroove

The MDA was this week thrilled to get the chance to post a guest column over on the leading mobile news and analysis portal, MSearchGroove.

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New board members for 2010-12

We’re delighted to welcome three new industry stalwarts to our board for the 2010-12 term.

Our new Directors are Oscar Jenkins, CEO of Dynmark International, who has been appointed the MDA Director responsible for Mobile Marketing; Shawn Brown, Head of Sales at Dialogue Communications, who has been appointed the Director responsible for Regulatory Matters; and Roger Craven, CEO of Vir2, who has been appointed Director responsible for Mobile Charity Activities.

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Connected Cars to go the extra mile

Analysis of Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITSS) released this week found that the market will be worth €2.9bn to European providers of communications services by 2020.

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A mobile role in publishing 2.0?

MDA member, Dynmark International has released a white paper claiming the UK market value for business or non consumer-consumer messaging will stand at £620m next year. 

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Can mHealth save the NHS?

There’s an election looking in the UK, which is causing problems for the political parties.  Everyone knows that we need major public spending cuts, but no politician is going to risk votes by committing to anything too great.  So everyone is carefully skirting the issue, particularly where the NHS is concerned.  The British public have a love-hate relationship with the NHS.  They love to deride its inefficiencies and problems, but as soon as anyone attempts to take an axe to it, it transmutes into the most valuable aspect of being British. 

Of course, those of us involved with healthcare know that this is more than just an election issue.  The changing demographics mean that the NHS, and every other health system in the world is heading for financial meltdown.  Rather than acknowledge it, our politicians (even those who have been pushing through the U.S. Health reform bill) are doing little more than being fitted for their lemming suits and asking for directions to the edge of the cliff.  We cannot afford healthcare in its present form and we’re running out of time to address that inconvenient truth.

One straw that is invariable grasped and brandished is the potential of mHealth (or eHealth, telecare or eCare) to sweep away the costs.  So in the spirit of helping our flailing politicians, I thought it might be an opportune time to review how it’s doing. Continued…

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3D TV: a mobile solution?

With under two months until the FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa, sporting and technology excitement is reaching fever pitch.  The tournament promises to demonstrate the range of ways football content can be consumed both on compact mobile devices and on larger screens across the world.

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£3.4m raised by text for Sport Relief

We’re thrilled to hear that UK charity, BBC Sport Relief 2010 has raised £3.4 million through £1, £5 and £10 mobile donations.

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11 million texts sent every hour…

That’s a lot of traffic for the UK’s mobile network operators to deal with.

Clearly the traffic will ebb and flow at certain times, but this average has been approximated following the release of our latest messaging statistics, aggregated from the UK’s mobile network operators.

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Cellular 25 – a Celebration

Last night the UK cellular industry gathered in London’s Science Museum to mark twenty-five years of mobile networks in the UK.  It was an event that drew together many of the people who have been responsible for the extraordinary explosion of the mobile industry, talking about the history of how it happened, and looking into their crystal balls to try and predict the direction of the next twenty-five years.

It has been an extraordinary journey.  I missed the first five years, but have been involved for the last twenty, predominantly trying to encourage data applications and moving services past the phone to internet connected devices.  That’s not been the most successful area of the industry, although I believe its time is about to come.  What last night proved was how radically the growth of the mobile industry has changed our lives. Continued…

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