Mobility

According to Alex Moskalyuk of IT Facts: Wireless data revenue in the US was approximately $13 billion in 2006, and is projected to be 3 times that in 2010. Wireless data and multimedia services accounted for 6% of all wireless revenue in the US in 2006, and is projected to go up 4 times that … Read more

The Mobile Context page has been revised.

Update: Feb 8, 2008: See Justifying DeviceAnywhere – On cost structure, application types and applicability. – – – – – – – – – – – – Update: 8/18/07: Let me update this entry, as I have received or read a couple of negative comments related to this blog entry. Perhaps I should have been … Read more

If your company is looking for seed money, keep an eye for the first annual Wireless Seed Stage Forum, October 17th in Austin, Texas. Coinciding with the Texas Wireless Summit (October 18-19), the Wireless Seed Stage Forum is designed to match promising seed stage wireless start-ups with experienced investors seeking funding opportunities in the space. … Read more

Read Jason’s post on his recent/real experience related to mobile advertising, and how when he clicked on an AdMob ad, the advertiser (not AdMob?), without permission, recorded the phone number and immediately initiated SPAM over SMS… Terrible. Here in the U.S. that could prompt a Class Action lawsuit against the advertiser, the ad engine provider, … Read more

My friend Tom Landspurg, CTO at Webwag, writes in his blog how to create your own mobile widget for the Webwag Widget portal/platform… Tom shows their approach to Widget authoring, their XML for Widgets, and scripting language. All pretty cool. Great foundation to standardize Widget authoring… From his blog, the clock widget code snippet: (Click … Read more

I am a fan of motion-detection, or measuring the movement in space over time, as a trigger for computing, and as new method of interaction for mobile applications – some uses include gestures. There are two approaches to detect motion. The first one is using Gyroscopes to measure changes in orientation or “gyroscopic inertia”. (Image … Read more

Jyri Engeström’s presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, touches on a number of interesting points including the importance of having well defined social objects (which maps to “purpose” or “goal”), and related verbs or actions — in other words, well defined social objects or purpose is what makes a social product succeed (or fail). I believe … Read more

The Future of Mobile, organized by Ryan Carson and his group, has been announced for Nov 14 in London. A great speaker line up, including Dan, Brian, Chetan, Andrea, Luca, and others. It is going to be a great event. I wish I could attend, but timing is not good for me…. maybe next time. … Read more

Below are a number of good resources by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA): PRIMER, INTROS, ETC. Ø Understanding Mobile Marketing: Technology & Reach*http://www.mmaglobal.com/uploads/MMAMobileMarketing102.pdf Ø Introduction to Mobile Search*http://www.mmaglobal.com/uploads/MMAMobileSearchIntro.pdf Ø Short Code Primer*http://www.mmaglobal.com/shortcodeprimer.pdf GUIDELINES Ø Consumer Best Practices*http://www.mmaglobal.com/bestpractices.pdf (Recently updated on July 16, 2007 to include guidelines for marketing to children under the age of 13, … Read more