Matthaus Krzykowski
Matthäus is a freelance writer for VentureBeat covering the mobile space. He is also a startup founder, consultant, conference organiser and regular speaker on the global circuit.
At VentureBeat, Matthaus writes many of the analysis and trend pieces on Mobile Social Networks, Mobile Content, Mobile Advertising, Google Android & Research Papers. In addition he is coordinating the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco for the second year running.
He is either to be found in San Francisco or Maastricht, the Netherlands. Visit www.mobile-facts.com for Matthaus’s personal blog and more information.
Recent Posts
Adobe’s Flash 10 for Android: A big win for mobile web apps
On Adobe’s earnings call last week, chief executive Shantanu Naraye said his company will introduce version 10 of its Flash multimedia player for Android this October at Adobe MAX 2009. This comes on the heals of handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson’s announcement that it will release… Continue Reading
MobileBeat2009 speakers: Nokia board member Tero Ojanpera, Palm’s Michael Abbott
We’re delighted to announce two of the speakers at our MobileBeat2009 conference, to be held in San Francisco on July 16.
The conference comes at a time of considerable tension in the mobile industry: Apple is getting ready to release the next version of its… Continue Reading
Mobile 2.0 Europe — bringing together mobile influencers
Announcing Mobile 2.0 Europe: a two-day event on June 18-19, 2009 in Barcelona that will explore the emerging Mobile Ecosystem and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, presented by Dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.
After 3 events in San Francisco and a successful Mobile 2.0 Europe… Continue Reading
EconSM Conference — May 14th, San Francisco; discount for VentureBeat readers
Twitter. MySpace. Bebo. Yahoo! Verizon. Nokia. Nielsen Mobile. comScore. And more. They’ll all be at EconSM: Social Meets Mobile on May 14th in San Francisco. For those who know it’s not enough to be social anymore—that you have to be mobile—come for a lively discussion on… Continue Reading
MEX conference highlights mobile user experience
On May 19 and 20, 100 of the brightest minds in mobile telecoms are gathering in London for a very different style of event — the MEX Mobile User Experience conference.
Participants from the world’s leading network operators, handset manufacturers, software developers and media companies… Continue Reading
Vodafone blitzes Europe with second Android phone, HTC Magic
Phone carrier Vodafone will launch the new Google Android smartphone called the HTC Magic in Germany next week.
It can record video, sports a nifty mobile address book, has touchscreen technology and has a qwerty touch keyboard (which you can have a look at here)…. Continue Reading
How much will Skype pay EU carriers for the success of its iPhone app?
Skype’s iPhone application, which lets users make cheap or free calls over their phone data plans, is a raging success. Barely a week after its release at the end of March, 2 million users had downloaded the application, representing almost 10 percent of iPhone users…. Continue Reading
Details of HTC Android phones emerge through new style of marketing
Two days ago T-Mobile sent an email to Engadget to invite them to an press event on April 21st. Billed as a “private launch event,” it has tech blogs wondering what the news will be: Will the company be announcing a new Android device? Or… Continue Reading
Behold, marketers — some iPhone numbers you can work with, finally
It seems like a report comes out every week with new statistics on the Apple App Store phenomenon. And the story is almost always the same: The App Store is huge and getting bigger.
Today, comScore released the newest such report breaking down the cumulative… Continue Reading
Verisign brings extra security to the iPhone
Worried that someone could steal your online identity, financial assets or data when you sign into accounts on the iPhone? Then Verisign’s free VIP Access app may be just what you’re looking for.
VIP Access, now available in the Apple App Store, adds an extra… Continue Reading
Kinoma makes finding mobile content a snap on Windows, Nokia’s Ovi
Mobile developer Kinoma announced that its Kinoma Play mobile media browser will be available in Nokia’s Ovi Store and the Windows Marketplace (which will be included on all phones based on Windows Mobile 6.5 this fall). Microsoft has signed Kinoma Play as an anchor application,… Continue Reading
Conveneer’s infrastructure service marries your phone with the web
Apple’s MobileMe and Microsoft’s recently announced MyPhone services focus on giving mobile users more seamless access to internet data services and the mobile address book. Conveneer, launching later this year, wants to help other carriers and manufacturers do the same — or better. The Palo… Continue Reading
MySpace’s John Faith on mobile revenue and mobile data opportunities
MySpace has seen some impressive traffic growth for its mobile web site and its mobile applications over the last year. And the social network is capitalizing on it by developing new revenue streams and new ways to get its users’ data on more devices.
This… Continue Reading
MySpace’s John Faith sees half of all its users going mobile
MySpace has seen impressive growth in its mobile services over the last six months, especially outside the U.S. At the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, I recently caught up with John Faith, the vice president and general manager for the social network’s mobile services, to… Continue Reading
Android and iPhone are all over MWC (even if Google and Apple aren’t), but where are the U.S. startups?
At last year’s Mobile World Congress I learned something: Given the amount of rumors leading up to the event, you usually don’t know what the conference is actually about until it’s over. That’s why I thought I’d share what I’m actually seeing at this year’s… Continue Reading
Mobile Peer Award winners
Updated.
The judges have just finished awarding the Mobile Peer Awards here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
I wrote earlier about the competition. As mentioned, I was on the jury of the early stage startups (with a second set of jurors looking at so-called… Continue Reading
A dozen mobile startups to pitch at Mobile Peer Awards
Some 50,000 members of the mobile industry will be visiting the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this coming week. It’s the industry’s largest event. And one of the show’s highlights is the Mobile Peer Awards, for which 12 young mobile companies have been nominated…. Continue Reading
O2 Germany alone has 6 to 8 Android phones planned this year
Basic Thinking, the recently sold “German TechCrunch” quotes an O2 product manager saying that “we want to get out 6 to 8 Android devices this year.” (the post is in German). The quote was made yesterday at an official press conference at the O2 Innovation… Continue Reading
DLD Conference: Europe and U.S. executives debate economy, politics
I’m here at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, which has become one of the high-end meetups for the European business crowd — and I’m prowling for stories, which I’ll share if I get them.
DLD stands for “Digital, Life, Design.” The conference focuses on… Continue Reading
An FAQ about those Android netbooks
Since our post yesterday about Google’s Android platform running on netbooks, we’ve been asked a lot of questions. Here are the most frequent questions, along with our answers.
Do you think Android could run on laptops or PCs?
The simple answer is “yes, with an… Continue Reading