Category Archives: MobilityLandscape

  Congratulations to my friend Thomas Landspurg and the rest of his team on the acquisition of Mobease by Webwag. Tom, their CTO, is a mobility expert, blogger, and mobile widget evangelist, visionary, and implementer; Tom is also the person … Continue reading →

As reported all over the Web, Microsoft is acquiring TellMe Networks. This is big news. TellMe has been a major player in the Voice (web) application space. Microsoft is getting a company with the technology, IP, and experience in both … Continue reading →

Two recent (and relatively quiet) mobile industry news caught my attention: Sybase/Mobile 365 – Sybase acquires Mobile 365. Mobile 365, a messaging infrastructure provider, will be operating as Sybase Mobile 365, a wholly-owned subsidiary. This will give Sybase an edge … Continue reading →

Awesome… Congrats to the AdMob team, and Mike and Russell on their Round A of funding… very neat… enrique

The short answer is no. RIM should have settled much earlier… RIM management were irresponsible to their customers, putting them at risk, by putting the BlackBerry product-line at risk. RIM's decision to delay the settlement comes to a price that … Continue reading →

While doing some market analysis, and handset penetration numbers, I was surprised to see, using CTIA subscriber numbers, that the handset penetration number here in the U.S. to be so high at 67%. Even if the numbers are a bit … Continue reading →

16.% "innovators" & "early adopters" 34% "early majority" or "pragmatists" 34% "late majority" or "conservatives" 16% "laggards" MVNOs typically target specific demographic profiles. For example, Amp'd and Helio both target young people, Mobile ESPN targets sports fan, and Disney Mobile … Continue reading →

As we speak RIM is taking its own medicine… And it tastes so bad that it sucks. Not sure if you recall when RIM sued Hanspring and Good, and when RIM sued Glenayre, and who knows who else, for their … Continue reading →

[Updated on Nov. 28, 2005] The other day News.com ran a story about RIM's CEO, Jim Balsillie, saying that “he is not worried about Microsoft's latest assault into his market space.” My immediate reaction was, uh? Think again… that's not … Continue reading →

Nokia to buy Intellisync. Interesting. A couple of years ago while at AGEA, I had business/partnership interactions with Pumatech, now Intellisync. Back then Pumatech swallowed Atlanta-based Synchrologic, another company I dealt with, who had a very neat/robust synchronization product — … Continue reading →

Russell Buckley of Mobhappy wrote about Gate's leaked memo and a “Sea Change”. I don't think MSFT is steering in the wrong direction, but instead I see adaptability to market conditions. I think the memo covers only one of MSFT's … Continue reading →

Is Research in Motion (RIM) new licensing strategy a move for survival or a move toward dominance? If you have worked with RIM before, you know this new strategy is a major change from how they used to do business. … Continue reading →