Google clicks in for Mobile

During the past week Google made two significant splashes in the mobile arena. Their much heralded, bombing of middle America with Stealth fighters announced the landing of the “Droid” mobile device. Secondly, their acquisition of the leading U.S. mobile advertising company, Admob for $750M announced the full legitimacy of mobile advertising. When Google speaks, the [...]

Mobile Content : Case Study for Economic Recovery?

 
The deluge of economic doom and gloom in the news would make Chicken Little seem like a wide-eyed optimist.
Headlines scream at consumers with news like:
-Auto Sales Plunge 45% to 27-Year Low
-Unemployment Rate hits 8.1%, Most Jobs lost in a short time period since they started keeping track in 1939
-Citicorp stock dips below $1
With all of [...]

The Future of Mobile – Without Phone Numbers

The most striking exchange at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the give and take of jabs between Sol Trujillo , CEO of Telestra and Josh Silverman, CEO of Skype.
Sol represents the mobile business of the present and the past.   Josh is the future.
The rate of innovation and fundamental change in [...]

Twitter-Versy!

Last week it was reported that Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich) Tweeted himself into the news by giving real time updates as he traveled to Iraq. He was in a delegation led by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio.
His Tweets are chronologically reproduced verbatim from Twitter below:
Just landed in Baghdad. I believe it [...]

Mobile Application Stores Change the Game

For years the availability of applications on mobile devices was determined by a handful of executives at wireless companies. They choose what apps got the penthouse placement of being placed on the carriers’ mobile web portal. Placement on the “home-deck” was the Holy Grail for every business development executive.
In recent years, off-deck players have [...]

Apple Beware? Or Not

Two consumer electronic giants are challenging the Apple iPhone momentum. 
I will not use the popular cliche term iPhone killer.  The only way the iPhone will become extinct is if another Asteroid hits our planet.  Lets all settle on the less violent – iPhone competitor.

Here are the competitors:
These companies dominate [...]

Miracle at the Meadowlands, Seen with my Eyes – Confirmed via Mobile

For me, Sunday at the Meadowlands usually means a Jets game. This past Sunday “Gang Green”, as they are affectionately known, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
With just two minutes left in the game, Buffalo was leading by 3 points.  At this point they inexplicitly called a pass play that resulted in a sack, [...]

The Technological Political Battlefield of 2012

 

As I read Jose Antonio Vargas‘ report in the Washington Post   titled “Republicans Seek to Fix Short-Sightedness” on my Blackberry, I realized that this story is an excellent bookend to my previous blog about the Obama Internet machine.
In his well thought out piece he links the Republican election disaster to their lack of technological savvy.  [...]

Wireless for the ADHD Crowd!

Mar 04 By mobileman
As my loyal readers will know, I spend a fair amount of time commuting to and from Manhattan. Part of my commute is via NJ Transit trains. During this one hour per day, I try to find ways to either be productive or amuse myself. Since I carry a wide array of wireless devices, [...]

The Mobile World is Flat

I spent the last week at our corporate headquarters in Italy. It is always interesting to compare and contrast the mobile market environment in markets outside of the U.S.   For many years, the U.S. suffered a deserved mobile service inferiority complex. It had been stated that all the really cool stuff was happening in Europe or Japan. [...]