Mobility

A small but interesting survey of 300 mobile phone users in Japan (via What Japan Thinks) has shown the results below, but could this be representative of the expected behavior on other parts of the world?   Votes Percentage From a scanned QR Code or bar code 125 41.7% Send a blank email and access … Read more

The main issues or concerns with device repositories are 1) the time and resources required for maintaining the repository accurate and useful over time, and 2) fragmentation (a favorite topic in mobility). When developing a product, you either marry to a specific solution, or try to abstract it (using your own abstraction) which kind of … Read more

Little by little, contactless (NFC) awareness, in this case with respect to mobile payment, is happening, plus interesting information about consumer preferences with respect to this. Below is some information from a recent survey (end of 2007) by ABI Research on this topic: From ABI Research’s Mobile and Contactless Payments: End-User Survey Analysis and ContactlessNews’ … Read more

Carlo Longino of MobHappy writes The Tipping Point For The Mobile Web where he expands on an entry from Russell Beattie of Mowser titled Crossing the Rubicon of the Mobile Web where they write about the mobile web reaching the point of no return, or the tipping point. But while we are in the right … Read more

Following the Top 11 Payments News Stories of 2007 by Glenbrook Partners, I’ve put together a list of relevant news that are specific to Mobile Payments for 2007. The year 2007 saw a number of mobile payment-related announcements and dozens of trials. Almost a year after Pay Buy Mobile was announced in GSM World 2007, … Read more

The folks at Sun’s Mobile & Embedded Community has put together a survey to help understand and improve the M&E community and related resources… >>> Take the Mobile & Embedded Community Survey The Survey is open through December 31st. It has been one year since the open source Community was launched and we have experienced … Read more

Paul Ruppert writes Mobile Payments: Top 10 Issues between Banks and Mobile Operators, a good summary of where mobile payments space stands today (end of 2007). Before I start, let me clarify that when I talk about mobile payments, I am not talking about mobile banking. Mobile banking is a much “easier” area to deal … Read more

The photo above from Russ’ blog shows left to right Mike and Russ; with Russ screaming “W00t” out of his lungs… :-) Mowser is growing; Mike Rowehl has joined Mowser as co-founder. That is great news for Russ and Mowser – the most important piece of the puzzle when starting a business is the team … Read more

You can find a good overview article on SVG-Mobile by Ronan at dotMobi — see SVG & Mobile. ceo

Two very important events have occurred that signal the shift on personal communications, and mobile/cellular adoption today and future. While these two events are totally related, it probably is coincidence that both were announced just days apart… You probably have heard that the global cellphone penetration has reached 50 percent: According to the International Programs … Read more