Apple iPhone Software Store generating sales

According to Apple, sales of software in the iPhone App store were $30 million in July.
“This thing’s going to crest at half a billion, soon,” Jobs told the Wall Street Journal: iPhone Software Sales take off. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1bn marketplace at some point in time. I’ve never seen anything like [...]

Transcoding the Truth?

There is an interview with Novarra President and COO, Jayanthi Rangarajan in Mobile Marketing Magazine that really takes the biscuit when it comes to spinning the truth around transcoding – its benefits and drawbacks:
http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2008/05/talking-transco.htmlMs Rangarajan, as COO of Novarra is at best badly mis-informed or at worst blatantly transcoding the truth in her interview with the [...]

Free My Phone

Veteran Technical Reporter / Guru Walt Mossberg wrote a great article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday.  Full of great info and a call to action to get carriers to open up their walled gardens.
Extract:
Free My Phone
A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal government has allowed itself to be bullied and fooled by [...]

Hassle: Portuguese Taxes

Here’s another “single market” one:
Bango deals with three mobile operators in Portugal.  Each of them requires various documentation, in physical form, with the appropriate notarization, stamping, and authentication by local tax offices, before they can remit funds outside Portugal – to avoid double taxation.  In addition they require various VAT documentation and clearances. 

Hassle watch

Acting for thousands of content providers, collecting payments from over 100 countries through many different payment channels gives Bango a great view into the byzantine complexities of tax and financial laws around the world.  We are going to start blogging some of the hassle we encounter, ranging from odd local practices to mobile carriers who [...]