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Welcome to London Calling, the place for mobile thinking. Since 2000 The Actionable Futurist, Andrew Grill has been providing advice, opinion and the latest thinking on all things mobile, digital and the impact on business and society. This blog is an archive of Andrew’s posts relevant to mobile advertising and location based services. To read Andrew’s latest thinking, please head over to his blog at ActionableFuturist.com

First look at the new Vodafone Sure Signal

12/07/2009

Update January 2010: Vodafone has updated their marketing name for this product and it is now called Vodafone Sure Signal. They have started to heavily promote it around London on the tube and [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 181 is at London Calling

05/07/2009

This week the carnival comes to you from a city that has just hosted one of the word’s most famous sporting carnivals – the Wimbledon championships. Last time we hosted the Carnival, [...]

A snapshot of Mobile Marketing in the UK

02/07/2009

Yesterday in the Times Newspaper a great 16 page supplement from Raconteur Media was included on mobile marketing – with great quotes from a number of leading companies and figures [...]

Adfonic launches mobile ad marketplace to rival AdMob

01/07/2009

I have been watching the Adfonic guys with interest since I met them in London prior to Mobile World Congress. I saw Paul and Wes last night at a function pre-launch and I asked them who they saw [...]

Getty Images teams with Flickr

17/06/2009

While not exactly mobile related, I received this interesting piece of news that Getty Images has teamed up with Flickr. According to the PR who sent me the details, “Getty Images embarked [...]

Canada’s first mobile payment service Zoompass launches

16/06/2009

I met Aran Hamilton at Mobile World Congress, and he could not tell me much about his current project, but he has been in touch to reveal that Zoompass is now live. More from the release below [...]