CTIA in stacks

The CTIA is an international nonprofit membership organization that represents the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products and everyone in between. CTIA organizes 2 wireless trade shows each year that everyone who does anything related to the [...]

Wrong Turn by Right Guard -

I was reading ESPN mobile earlier today and saw a call to action mobile banner by Right Guard. Normally, I don’t click on banners. Not on the web and rarely on mobile. Call to actions on web nor mobile are convincing enough for me. However, this call to action on the mobile banner was to [...]

The Headache of Building a Beautiful Mobile Web Site

A while ago we were contacted by Yamaha who wanted us to build out a fully function WAP site featuring their Marine Division’s new product line for 2010.  This sounded like a great opportunity for Textopoly and after several rounds of designs we were ready to set it up and make it work.  If anyone [...]

CTIA Round Up and Why does Everyone have an App Store?

We’re back from CTIA and overall is was pretty meh….

What’s up with everyone having their own app store?  iPhone has it’s iTunes App Store, Blackberry has App World, Nokia has Ovi, Erikson has an App Store, Windows has an App Store, and the list keeps on going.  Just about everyone has their own app store [...]

Lost Blackberry? Yep, there’s an app for that.

Last weekend I was in downtown San Diego for a girlfriend’s birthday and my life ended…well that’s a tad over dramatic but it certainly felt that way. There I was in the party bus when I realized my beloved Blackberry curve had gone missing.

Anyone who has ever lost their cell phone before knows the utter [...]

Mobile Marketing…This Seasons New Little Black Dress

September, my favorite month of the year. Why you ask? The September issue of Vogue and countless other fashion magazines displaying the newest fall fashions of the season. Perusing the hundreds of glossy pages of perfectly photographed (and Photoshopped) advertisements I’m excited to see several of the biggest name brands in fashion integrating mobile, whether [...]