Google’s Ambitious Mobile Effort
November 15, 2007
Google Teams Up With Cell Industry | www.washingtonpost.com
Google’s foray into mobile advertising is predictable and necessary yet faces significant obstacles.
Verizon Wireless’ Low Cost Prepaid Experiment
November 15, 2007
Verizon Wireless Launches New Prepaid Plans | www.wirelessweek.com
Verizon is leveraging its pre-paid offerings to attract new customers and test new business models.
Don't panic this is not the end of the world
November 1, 2007
Skype and 3 launch mobile phone | www.reuters.com
What you get with a Skypephone is a service that allows another form of IM as long as you have spent a minimum of £10 per month. This is not VoIPoM this is something aimed at retaining customers and getting them to keep the phone on so that they can recieve calls.
Has Anything Really Changed at Motorola?
October 29, 2007
Moto's Signs of Hope | www.unstrung.com
Motorola must address their product portfolio, software and services issues to have a material, sustainable performance improvement.
AT&T Trying to Stay Relevant in Mobile Data
October 23, 2007
AT&T Introduces Mobile Personalization Tool | www.wirelessweek.com
Mobile operators, including AT&T, need to create customer friendly and sticky services or they risk being relegated to a dumb pipe.
Google Will Help Bring Advertising to Mobile
October 22, 2007
Will Google Crush The iPhone? | www.forbes.com
Google is the undisputed online advertising leader. With their rumored push into mobile, the biggest impact may be bringing advertising to the mobile mainstream.
Compression Not the Only Thing Hindering Mobile Video Success
October 18, 2007
Demand For Mobile TV To Outpace Infrastructure, Says Broadcast International | televisionbroadcast.com
Technology improvements combined with a fresh look at the mobile user experience are required for mobile video to succeed.
October 12, 2007
Motorola Back On Track | www.forbes.com
The V3 was something that was a victim to fortune. Motorola built a very sexy looking handset they just forgot to do something with the software. So you got a large number of users who discover that this is not a Nokia or a Sony Ericsson and you need to read the instruction book. Life is too short for instruction books, and so people became unhappy that this was a phone that just made calls and sent texts. As an internet device it is a nightmare. Not a great device for networks looking to raise ARPU with data services so limited lifespan. Motorola have been playing with just what OS to run on the handset. You can get the Q which is using Microsoft as the engine for the Smartphone. However the latest Smartphone sees them return to UIQ (Symbian) for the software and it does not have a QWERTY keypad and so once again data services will be limited. David Beckham as a Brand is outdated, just as LA Galaxy about bang for buck.
The Helio MVNO Experiment Continues, For Now
September 28, 2007
Earthlink Stops Funding Helio | www.infoworld.com
The US MVNO market, and Helio in particular, faces an uphill battle.
September 26, 2007
Chipset vendors jostle for position in WiMAX handsets | www.wimaxtrends.com
1. There is a lot of noise about WiMax being 4G technology for mobile devices including cellular phones. While this is probably true Wimax standard is not finalized yet and this fact makes the technology developers a risky companies to invest in. 2. NextWave is spending huge amount of money on technology development ranging from ICs, though the prototype development platforms for both industrial and consumer markets. In addition, NextWave is buying frequency spectrum all around the world. In my opinion this is very risky strategy because WiMax will be rolled-out in 2009-2010 if not later in some countries but the interest payments on company loans to have to be satisfied in the meantime. 3. In addition, the growth of the company is tremendous. They need more and more people to cover all the activities they are involved in and there is question in my mind of controlling the growth.
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