This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#156) is at Dennis Bournique’s The WAP Review blog. This week the Carnival topics include mobile predictions for 2009, on software and services, design and user experience, mobile marketing and strategy and related events — check it…
I just noticed that this year’s Design For Mobile conference, organized by the folks from Little Springs Design, is scheduled for April 20-22, 2009. I attended last year’s event and it was a good event with attendees and presenters from both academia and…
I’ve updated my diagram on non-messaging Mobile Applications: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications (click to enlarge): I will be using this diagram on an upcoming article that I’ve been cooking for a while. ceo
Source: THE NIELSEN COMPANY ISSUES TOP TEN U.S. LISTS FOR 2008. Motorola on the top and Nokia on the bottom – wow. And in between in that order: LG, Apple and BlackBerry. Wow again. The US does operate differently than the rest of…
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 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…
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
2008 was a very interesting year for me, with both failures and successes and tons of lessons learned. But life is good. 2009 will be a very interesting year for mobility and handsets and applications. An example of this was yesterday when I…
Interesting numbers from comScore M:Metrics on mobile consumption/usage for 3 months ending August 2008; see press release: comScore Mobile Benchmark Study of Mobile Media Consumption Three Month Average Ending August 2008 vs. Same Period in 2007 Total U.S. Mobile Subscribers Source: comScore M:Metrics…
One small step for T-Mobile, a bigger step for end-users… It would be great if all network providers dropped the “double opt-in” requirements that makes campaign certification (and re-certification over time) a pain in the neck, not to mention expensive. Instead, companies that…
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