Sprint’s Long Road to Recovery
April 3, 2008
Sprint’s New Customer Retention Employee Incentive Plan | www.wirelessweek.com
Sprint has never hit full stride since its Nextel acquisition in 2005, and its new CEO is making several changes in an attempt to put the company back on track. The first few steps are on target but the company has a risky bet in WiMax and little margin for error with its operations.
Displacing the DVR - Not So Fast
February 26, 2008
Locking in Viewers to Watch the Commercials | www.nytimes.com
Advertisers and broadcasters must continually adapt to time-shifting, place-shifting and alternative content distribution technologies and offerings such as the DVR.
February 21, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent Plans Prepaid Option for BlackBerry | www.redorbit.com
Looking to expand into foreign market, RIM and Alcatel-Lucent have come up with a pre-paid Blackberry solution. Pricing is key to this initiative, which if not priced correctly, will backfire.
Flat Rate Pricing in Mobile - a Tricky Bet
February 21, 2008
Verizon Wireless Introduces New Unlimited Plans That Are as Worry Free as the Guarantee | biz.yahoo.com
Flat rate pricing of mobile services can work for the industry as long as a price war does not begin.
Unlocked iPhones - Not All Bad for Apple
February 18, 2008
Unlocking an iPhone for real | www.news.com
Unlocked iPhones, which can represent $200-$300+ dollars per device in lost revenue over the course of two years, are not all negative for Apple.
February 6, 2008
Review: Nokia E90 Communicator Acts Like a Laptop, Makes Calls Like a Phone | blog.wired.com
Nokia communicators reviewed in the US is important, we've missed the point for a while here, so coverage is cool. Seeding the enterprise driven smartphone market with a real device that bridges submini notebooks and high end phones is an important door opener/wedge to get business ready to support phones in a better way. ID isnt everything. Its not a consumer device - clearly, but you dont use this to look good.
Nokia E90 Communicator - Deja Vu
January 29, 2008
Review: Nokia E90 Communicator Acts Like a Laptop, Makes Calls Like a Phone | blog.wired.com
The latest Nokia Communicator suffers from the same identity crisis and niche appeal that have plagued previous iterations
Flat Rate Versus Usage-Based Pricing Battle Resurfaces
January 28, 2008
Time Warner Trial Could Stifle Online Movies | news.yahoo.com
The issue of how to bill for fixed-capacity network access is reemerging with Time Warner Cable’s announced tiered-rate usage trial in Texas.
January 28, 2008
Pink Slips at Yahoo -- How Long Before Jerry Yang Gets One? | blog.wired.com
Yahoo! and its co-founder-turned-CEO are facing a tough time putting the company back on track.
Can a Business iPhone Succeed?
January 25, 2008
AT&T Mobility repositions iPhone for business users | www.rcrnews.com
Apple and AT&T are trying to increase iPhone sales by repositioning it as a business device. This is a rational goal but one that is not easily achieved.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009