Android Apps Also Coming to BlackBerry Phones

Last Monday, we met some folks from RIM that were lorrying a PlayBook around in Holland. Of course we took it for a sweet little spin (we weren’t at MWC), but there’s more to this story.

So first off, the PlayBook is just cool. It looks great and is really responsive. We couldn’t play around with an Android app on the platform yet as that was still under development and a crash would not be nice in the press.

Next to the news that Android Apps would have to be downloaded from BlackkBerry App World, the RIM employee managed to tell us that running Android apps would not be limited to the PlayBook. The exact same functionality will also come to BlackBerry phones, though probably with the next version of the OS (that is the same as on the PlayBook).

For those buying the RIM PlayBook, RIM will make an app available to sync the device with a phone. Sadly enough (but understandable), RIM will only support sync from a BlackBerry phone.

Mobile Advertising is the Next Goldmine

The next frontier in mobile advertising will be delivered thru your mobile phones, a story from the Herald Tribune reports on a recent study about the growth of mobile internet. This is the prove that MobGold in a Serious Business.

Last week in London, the Online Publishers Association released a study showing that use of the mobile Internet is on the rise, along with acceptance of mobile advertising.


The survey, conducted by TNS Media and Entertainment in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, found that 76 percent of cellphone owners in those countries now have access to the Web from mobile devices. The researchers, who polled about 1,000 people in each country, found that more than a third of those with mobile Web access used such services. The Web-using population ranged from 34 percent in France to 54 percent in Britain.

Search giants like Google and Yahoo! have already moved into mobile search so the the barrier to entry for delivering mobile ads will be fairly easy.

Just recently MobGold has developed a way to provide multimedia ads to mobile phones sites. The ads mostly like Text Ad, Banner Ad, SMS Ad, Email Ad, iPhone Ad, Android Ad, Campaigner Ad, Blackberry Ad, and Any other SDK platform. developed by MobGold to enabled mobile phone and an  mobile application programming SDK that can be deployed on websites that are accessed by mobile devices. So, all mobile site owners can monetize their traffic to gain profit from MobGold.

We could also be seeing Google pushing Adsense for mobile sites too.