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More on iPhone vs. Android App Store and the reason why the Android App Store will Win

I found the above via Mobile-Facts and it is quite funny (and probably even true!). The important concept here, even if not the best of examples, is that an open market and ecosystem is a very good thing… ceo

My New Book

On my new book, I explain how to build up great abs… (OK, ok, I am joking, but my wife had a great hard laugh) ceo

Russian Professor Predicts Fall of USA by 2010

Source: Datamation/Mike Elgan. There is a Wall Street Journal article about the Russian academic Igor Panarin who predicts the U.S. will fall apart in 2010… …and his theory goes like this: “There’s a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur,” he says.…

Mobile Apps in 2009: Local/Native, Mobile Web, App Stores

Happy 2009 New Year to all my readers. My first post of the year is about mobile applications: local/native vs. web, and app-stores. App-stores have been shifting the balance on application development and distribution (back) towards local/native applications. I don’t mean to undermine…

Worldwide and US mobile subscriber penetration (Dec 2008)

Worldwide Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 42% penetration in 2008 and 53% penetration by 2014 worldwide. US Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 88% penetration in 2008 and 104% penetration by 2014 in the United States. The above numbers for the US matches the penetration numbers…

International Long Distance Calls Going Mobile

Not only landlines are being replaced by mobile phones, but according to the Annual TeleGeography study of the international voice market, international long-distance calling is also moving to mobile handsets: ceo

On Texting Usage in the USA (PEW Internet Project)

A recent report by the PEW Internet Project titled Networked Workers reveals a couple of interesting numbers on texting usage in the USA: General Numbers on Technology Usage by “Networked Workers” 93% own a cell phone, compared with 78% of all American adults…

Gartner: Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate, Nokia #1 Smartphone Company in Q3 2008

According to Gartner, worldwide smartphone sales reached its lowest growth rate with 11.5% increase in 3rd quarter of 2008. It also says that Nokia is the #1 smartphone manufacturer/seller: Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of…

On the Java Community Process: Expert Groups, JSRs, Observers and legal-related thoughts

Antonio Goncalves writes that Everybody should be able to easily observe JSRs. Yes, I agree. But it really is more than just being able to observe. I was an Observer for the MSA 1.0 Expert Group (EG) and other EGs; but not all…

Carnival of the Mobilists #154

It has been one year since the last time that I hosted the Carnival of the Mobilists. And it is with great pleasure that I bring you the Carnival of the Mobilists #154, the last one for 2008. This week we have a…