The GSMA announced this week that the city that hosts its annual conference from 2013 to 2017 will also be crowned Mobile World Capital . The shortlist includes six European cities that would make great places for a big conference, but aren’t necessarily the first places that mobiThinking would have expected to be Mobile World Capital: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cologne, Milan, Munich and Paris. read more

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Mobile world capital: so what is the DNA of a truly mobile city and which cities really vie for the title?

Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists (COM), your round up of the best mobile and wireless blogs and one completely average one. Last week the itinerant COM was hosted by Antoine RJ Wright , next week COM drops in at MJelly . If you want your blog to be considered, submit it to mobilists@gmail.com . read more

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Carnival of the Mobilists (No 243): music, psychology, consumer behavior, apps, ads, movies, handset share and more

mobiThinking was recently sent this video of a presentation given by Rehan Allahwala, the founder of Mobile Monday Karachi at the recent Mobile Monday 10-year Anniversary Summit in Helsinki. We hope to be hearing a lot more on mobile in Pakistan from Mr. Allahwala, in the meantime we highly recommend watching this video. It puts things into perspective. read more

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Mobile in Pakistan: a must-watch video from the founder of Mobile Monday Karachi

The next best thing to attending an excellent event is receiving a blow-by-blow report of the conference highlights. Ian Homer, director of services – and design guru – at mobile agency Bemoko , fills us in on lesson’s learned at last week’s Design for Mobile … It seems we missed an “inspirational conference”. • Also see this guide to mobile design with tips from the speakers at this event: read more

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Three lessons from Design For Mobile 2010 (Chicago) – an event report from Ian Homer, Bemoko

As the World Cup host nation kicks off the first match of the tournament today (Friday morning in America, Friday afternoon in Europe/Africa, Friday night in Asia/Pacific) versus Mexico, so commences a fascinating case study in mobile Web. read more

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Meet the biggest South African mobile sites – top 10 shows that on mobile the World Cup host nation is football (soccer) crazy