Features
A year in mobile: social networks - The key application?
Has the mobile industry stumbled on the killer app that it had just agreed to agree doesn't exist? Certainly, from Shozu to Ovi, it was the hot topic of 2008
A year in mobile: messaging - On the slow boat to success?
The vision of inter-operator mobile instant messaging may be a story for 2009, but in 2008 it was all about the IM communities getting mobilised, chat, and mobilising updates to social networks. Oh, and Nokia got involved too
A year in mobile: Location Based Services - Getting on the map
It kind of started and ended with Nokia, although there was a lot else going on as well
A year in mobile: mobile TV - A bad news story?
Has it been all bad news for mobile TV? David Adams searches for the successes in 2008
A year in mobile: advertising - What was driving mobile ad growth in 2008?
Changes in customer behaviour as well as more targeted campaigns, drove mobile advertising growth in 2008, says David Adams. And there will be more to come in 2009
A year in mobile: handset OS - Going open in 2008
The seeming obsession with smartphones and their operating systems reflected market realities, says Tony Dennis
A year in mobile: OSS/BSS - Financial crisis threatens progress
With vendors posting good results, achieving decent valuations when acquired and the first fruits of OSS/BSS transformation feeding through to carriers' bottom lines, 2008 has been a strong year for the sector yet, as the financial storm clouds
A year in mobile: network - Going broadband
2008 was dominated by LTE, backhaul and femtocells, says Keith Dyer, who looks back at some highlights of our network infrastructure coverage