MobileBeat Mobile Conference

Press Coverage

“Omar Hamoui said he seriously considered Apple’s offer to buy AdMob before agreeing to be acquired by Google” —Bloomberg News

“Omar Hamoui, founder and CEO of Google’s AdMob, said ‘business as usual’ for AdMob’s ad network customers seeking to place ads in iPhone applications” —Tom Krazit, CNET

“For the record, it does look like whatever the next hardware is going to be, it’ll be based on Palm’s current roadmap and not a complete reboot.” —Dieter Bohn, Precentral.net

“HP chose Palm over Android or Windows because they liked ‘being able to control entire experience stack.’” —Brad Shedwick, webOS

“Speaking at MobileBeat 2010, Tseng said the majority of push notifications, especially for current location based services, were ‘just spam’ and that he, personally, wouldn’t use them.” —Sylvie Barak, RCR

“At the MobileBeat 2010 conference today, Google’s Admob division head Omar Hamoui told reporters that Apple hadn’t yet started blocking Admob on its iOS devices.” —Seth Weintraub, CNNMoney.net

“At the MobileBeat 2010 conference in San Francisco, Tseng said that Facebook ‘really sees mobile as the future,’ and that we can expect to see Facebook’s ‘Like’ buttons in mobile applications soon.” —Stan Schroeder, Mashable

“The panel participants all vehemently supported Android over iPhone, although largely because of developer support and the openness of Android’s platform rather than quality.” —Saad Fazil, VentureBeat

“Mr. Hamoui, who was speaking at the MobileBeat mobile-device conference, said Apple’s threat has ‘added uncertainty in the market’ but he’s ‘hopeful we’ll be able to find a solution’ and that AdMob has developed contingency plans.” —Amir Efrati, The Wall Street Journal

“‘It’s the power of a netbook in the palm of your hand,’ Samsung’s Omar Khan concluded. ‘What users expect is the same experience they have on their netbooks or PCs in an uncompromised fashion.’” —Jolie O’Dell, Mashable

‘”With gigahertz processors, the divide between the smartphone and PC has narrowed,’ said Humphrey Chen of Verizon Wireless. ‘That’s Microsoft’s worst nightmare because there is no Windows or Office revenue, but there’s a big Google Apps and Verizon cloud computing opportunity there,’ he added.” —Rick Merritt, EE Times

“Publishers and advertisers are already using more caution and ‘asking more questions’ about AdMob as a result of the rules change, he (Hamoui) said.” —Liz Gannes, GigaOm

“The flexible display is a kind of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ thing in technology right now.” —David Coldewey, CrunchGear

“The (Apple ad restriction) policy has not yet been enforced but would keep AdMob from using iAd, Hamoui said at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco.” —Stephen Lawson, IDG

“In at least four sessions spread throughout the day, entrepreneurs are pitching a panel of four judges in lightning-round fashion, a four-minute hard stop.” —Craig Matsumoto, Light Reading

“’We see Windows having its segments of the market,’ Phil McKinney of HP said. But when it comes to mobile devices, he added, rather than relying on third-party software, HP believes that success lies with providing its own ‘end-to-end experience.’” —Brandon Bailey, SiliconBeat

“Over the next few months the company will hone in on a platform strategy that developers can use to distribute their mobile applications, Facebook’s (Eric) Tseng said at MobileBeat.” —Alison Diana, InformationWeek

“We stepped out of a killer panel Monday from MobileBeat 2010 titled ‘How to turn Android into a money machine,’ and the answer from the panel to that very question seems to be ‘all the little things.’” —Dieter Bohn, Android Central

“Speaking at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2010 conference this week in San Francisco, AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan once again declared that the future holds lots and lots of data (we get it) and that AT&T will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to get out ahead of mobile bandwidth demand.” —Karl Bode, DSLReports.com

“One of his (Omar Hamoui, AdMob) points was that the core mobile application that users turn to most often tend to be lookalike Web applications…” —Craig Matsumoto, Light Reading

“At the MobileBeat 2010 Conference, Facebook’s Erick Tseng said the company will be making strong efforts to become a mobile platform. —Marin Perez, intomobile

“Speaking at the MobileBeat2010 conference in San Francisco on Monday, AT&T’s CTO John Donovan discussed convergence, the ‘consumerization of enterprise,’ and the surge in mobile broadband, all while artfully managing to avoid the meat of the main issues faced by the carrier.” —Sylvie Barak, RCR