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University Students Say “Yes” to Mobile Ads

Supporting the idea that the youth market is prime for mobile (see Going to Market: The Mobile Youth Market), see the results from a survey at Ball State University as reported at MobiAdNetwork: Technically oriented college students are increasingly receptive to receiving advertising…

The World’s Worst Web Browser: Internet Explorer

IE is WWW. But in this case WWW means World’s Worst Web (browser experience). …but you already knew that. IE is the browser the behaves differently from all others… It is so out of whack with respect to other browsers that is just…

JAVA as Sun’s ticker symbol

Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced in his blog about the The Rise of JAVA – The Retirement of SUNW. Many reactions on this can be read on the web, including the comments on Jonathan’s blog; too many for me to read. But below…

The iPhone, European Carriers, Steve Jobs, and the new times (oh, and Google too)

My friend Gary Mendel (CMO at eZee) pointed me to this story: Carriers Chosen for European iPhone From the story: Apple has chosen its carriers for the iPhone launch in Europe, according to a report published Tuesday in the Financial Times. The report,…

2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker – pick mobile!

Last June I posted here in this blog and in other places the call for mobility panelists for the 2008 SXSW interactive festival with the goal of promoting mobility at the festival… well the results are in. This year 38 sessions on mobile…

Mobility and digital divide, part 2 – Role of the developer

Following my previous post Mobile, data plans and the digital divide, what can we, as mobile software product developers, do to help with the problem of cost of ownership that result in a digital divide? The answer is that we must be smart…

Sun “Ask the Experts” session on MSA, August 20-24, 2007

From the Sun announcement by Richard Marejka: Topic: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248 When: August 20-24, 2007 Experts: Mikhail Gorshenev, senior staff engineer, Sun Microsystems E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager, Java ME Marketing group, Sun Microsystems Hinkmond Wong, senior staff engineer ,…

MobileMonday Austin: Mobile Gaming Session (Aug 27th) has been rescheduled

Folks – The Mobile Gaming session originally scheduled for August 27th will be moved to September. More information shortly. Thanks. ceo

Mobile, data plans and the digital divide

When addressing the general consumer market, we (product owners and developers of mobile/handset applications) must cater both advanced and non-advanced users. It is very common to see applications that are only or mainly delivered for the more advanced, or early adopters-type of users.…

Who said there is no money in wireless data?

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…