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 behind J2MEMap, mobile games, and other. I share many of Tom's ideas, and I am … Read more

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 mobile and voice, as very few companies out there have. Ironically, TellMe Mobile was first … Read more

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 in mobile infrastructure, as Mobile 365 has in place the operators relationships, infrastructure, and customer … Read more

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 goes beyond the $612.5 million they have put down for their “full and final settlement … Read more

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 inflated, it is great to see such penetration, which translates to opportunities — and expect … Read more

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 targets kids and their families. Targeting a specific demographic profile enables focus, but not without … Read more

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 patent on “method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication … Read more

[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 smart, especially if RIM depends so much on MSFT Exchange… Then two days later, News.com … Read more

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 — if I recall correctly this merge was a result of a patent infringement battle between … Read more