Interesting announcement on Motorola co-owning UIQ together with Sony Ericsson. See the announcement. ceo
This year I served in the advisory board for mobile content/sessions, for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival, where I helped in the selection of the sessions that will present at next year’s Interactive Festival (2008). I will say that I am very pleased…
I am off to San Francisco for the Mobile 2.0 event. See Rudy’s entry Off to Mobile 2.0 Conference for a good description of the event. I’m looking forward to meeting with my fellow Mobilists while there. ceo
If you haven’t yet, go check out this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists at taptology. This week’s topics include Web 3.0, free speech, mobiles in civil society, U.S. carriers, the “Phonetop”, the Mobile 2.0 Conference, and other. ceo
Troy Norcross sent me an email about a recent decision that could very much promote Bluespamming. Read Tony’s essay Bluespamming – Bluetooth Marketing: ICO removes guidance for Opt-In permission. ceo
The Argument The argument is that from the user’s perspective, having to download an application kills the experience, and that people just won’t download. Yes, it is a pain to download, but it is not a killer. People will download applications as long…
(If you don’t see the poll below, please go to the poll in my blog: Poll: I’ve or will have unlimited “texting plan”) You must enable JavaScript to vote in this poll from Pollverize. Update: I changed this poll from Jyte to Pollverize,…
(If you don’t see the poll below, please go to the poll in my blog: Poll: I’ve or will add a “data-plan” to my phone so I can access to Internet or web on my mobile phone) You must enable JavaScript to vote…
Voice is the primary medium and use for cellphones; no surprise there. It is the primary medium for communication purposes. While voice has great potential as a medium for delivering information, voice is also more intrusive, and linear in nature, thus slower, than…
As I look at the landscape today vs. where we are going, the next generation of mobile applications (called it Mobile 2.0) is less about emerging technologies, and is more about emerging uses/applications, and the related business models. There are few “emerging technologies”…