No CTIA for me this year, but here’s a video about a major milestone. Alright, it is more or less an Ericsson promotion video, but still the start with the facts on data overtaking voice in the networks is pretty significant. Remember December 2009 as the time when more data traffic than voice flowed through [...]
From Barcelona, nothing new. Seems like the keywords this year was open and apps. Mixed with some paranoid attacks on Google and Yahoo for their strong position in search advertising. Well, most efficient markets are developed when companies can focus on their area of expertise and compete on fair terms. Search was never the reason [...]
Better late than never. It seems that companies these days manage better and better to commercialize LBS by packaging it into services that are of good use. One particular area, or functionality rather, is location awareness. It happens in the background and is an integrated piece of the service. Foursquare use it in their game [...]
I continue my short series of telecom and wireless in a larger perspective than just mobile entertainment and apps. It must be the effect of watching our garden explode with new life again that triggers this. In the environmetal debate the mobile industry is not very present. Despite the graduation from only offering token “green [...]
Now the optimistic hyperbolic analysts are getting cold feet. In a recent study by Juniper as reported about here, it is now expected that the effect of the recession will eat into the growth of mobile entertainment revenues. In Juniper’s case they say the growth will be half of what they previously said. Well in [...]
So finally, after my first stab at video from yesterday, here comes the written version with links and all. (Re Video: yes, I will use a tripod in the future. The Flip is so small that it is difficult to film with on free hand). There were a few thems the I picked up. Mind [...]
So, I could not resist. With the new Flip Mino HD It is so easy and fun to film. So I’ll experiement a bit with this format. Let me know what you think. First broadcast is live on YouTube in the mobiletribetv channel. Find it here. Regarding CTIA, I will also write a full roundup [...]
For a while now I have been a fan of the work done by Graham and Josh at mobileYouth. I recommend their slideshows on their site. Should be required reading for many in the industry. As a content provider we are so often more worried about the physical connectivity to wap gateways and billing systems etc, [...]
Hey, I gotta give my old Swedish “MaBell” a nod. They try to use old skool SMS to connect more to Facebook mobile. Here’s what FierceWireless Europe writes about it. I like all honest trial-and-error efforts. I rather trust someone searching the next big thing rather than the person who says he already has. This [...]
In the aftermath of MWC and the build up to CTIA you would certainly think App Stores are the new black. Apple set off this me-too avalanche of announcements. After Apples app store we have seen Blackberry app world , Android Market, Microsoft\’s Marketplace and Nokia\’s Ovi etc. Will this be a game changer? Maybe. [...]