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Which BlackBerry are you?

My good friend Michael Yuan (Ringful Health) put together a quick survey on BlackBerry to better understand popular BlackBerry versions and help them prioritize their product road-map. The survey results are public so everyone can benefit from this survey: So, while we are…

Mobile Trends 2020

Rudy De Waele (@mtrends) has put together a collaborative outlook of the mobile trends for the next 10 years: Update: Mobile Trends 2020 has been updated to include views from Russell Buckley, Tomi Ahonen, Yuri van Geest, Kelly Goto, Raj Singh, David Harper,…

On (Mobile) Cloud Computing – Multiple Perspectives to its Benefits, Drivers and Economics

Ajit wrote an interesting post titled Mobile Cloud Computing – the silver lining for Operators, where he explores Cloud Computing from an Operator perspective and discusses the synergies and opportunities for Carriers. He quotes an ABI Research report that states that cloud computing…

Will RIM go the Android Way?

Will RIM adopt Android? A very interesting thought indeed. But why or not would RIM do such a thing? Some thoughts below: Why this would be unlikely? “Not built here” mentality — this is probably the biggest hurdle for them. There will be…

OMTP BONDI 1.1 Candidate Release — Open to public for review/feedback

BONDI 1.1 is now in Candidate Release and it is open to public for feedback. Note that this phase will close on the 2nd of December so you’ll need to get your comments in before then. See OMTP and BONDI at the betavine…

Near-Field (Proximity) Communication in late 2009

It almost is the end of 2009. And where does near-field proximity communication-based applications stand? From mobile marketing, to customer loyalty, payments and authentication, to information exchange, transportation and health-care. Well, it still stands very far from its full potential. Due to its…

Will the iPhone trigger the Mobile RFID/NFC revolution?

Will history repeat itself? There was/is the 12 keys keypad cellphone. And few care about Touch. Then came the iPhone. Now everyone loves Touch. There was the operator Deck. Everyone hated the Deck. Then came Apple. And created the App Store. Now everyone…

On-bill App Store Purchases – finally, an operator leveraging their own infrastructure in new ways, on the new era of app stores

Operators have so much infrastructure already in place and it has taken them so many years to take advantage of it in news ways — to leverage such infrastructure for their own benefit and the benefit of the ecosystem, by repackaging and offering…

On Android, Distribution, Buzz, Pre-insalled apps and Crapware

Responding to Tomi‘s thread on ForumOxford, where he wrote: “The best phone in the world cannot take the mobile phone market, unless there is distribution.” Yes. Which is exactly why Android seems to me that it will be widely adopted. And it will…

On the the rise of open mobile

While looking for information on how CTIA 2009 in San Diego went, I found an article by Richard Wong (who is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners) titled on “The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team)“. A good article by Richard,…