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Mobility Video from IBM

As I was surfing and researching for an upcoming presentation and white paper on a very interesting topic (you’ll know soon enough) I came across this video from IBM. Although it looks dated and even the narrator’s voice makes it sound like a throwback from the 1960′s it appears to be less than a year [...]

September 7, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Links

My handy Google Alerts guided me to Matthew Buckland’s Blog and his Slideshare presentation on Mobile Strategy for Publishers. Below is a brief quote from Matthew’s post followed by the embedded Slideshare deck. If you’re not a handset maker, a mobile operator or MXIT, then you face some tough challenges in the mobile web environment. [...]

September 4, 2009 Read the full article →

Investment in the Silicon Valley Mobile Industry

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley examined investment trends (venture capital funding and acquisitions) in the mobile industry covering 166 companies headquartered in Silicon Valley and San Francisco over a period of 19 years with an emphasis on the past decade. What can we learn from it?  There is money in mobile!  Okay, so you already knew [...]

August 29, 2009 Read the full article →

Apologies are in order

Terribly sorry to those of you who dropped by over the last 24 hours and were not able to find us.  A slight technical glitch caused this URL to redirect to another page. All is well now and we can get back to our regularly scheduled activities.

August 13, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Group on LinkedIn

A new Mobile Strategy group was just launched on LinkedIn. Feel free to join the discussion at this link. Remember … Work is Mobile!   Life is Mobile!

August 10, 2009 Read the full article →

Ontario Slipping Behind in Wireless Revolution

I was originally going to write an opinion piece on this press release from the Ontario College of Art and Design.  But I am working on a few deadlines (how do I get myself into these binds?) so I will simply post the press release here for your information.  Perhaps we can discuss later… or [...]

July 24, 2009 Read the full article →

WordPress for BlackBerry

New Beta version available here.

July 21, 2009 Read the full article →

Like Minded Blogs #3

I haven’t done a Like Minded Post since back in December (here and here) and as you can see this is only the third one.  There are many good blogs out there and I have been remiss in pointing you towards them.  Will… try… harder… This morning I came across another blog on Mobile Strategy…  [...]

July 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Everyone is an expert…

… and most are almost always wrong. A friend sent me an email a few hours ago with the following subject: “stupid analysis.”  Thankfully he wasn’t referring to me but to someone referenced in this article over at Electronista. The claim which seems to upset people is the following… “BlackBerry could be a loser in [...]

June 19, 2009 Read the full article →

The Smartphone is dead… long live the Smartphone

Twitter folks I follow (as @mstrat)  pointed me to this new paper from Forrester:  The “Smartphone” Is Dead: Long Live Smart Phones And Smart Gadgets. Similarly there are other folks around the web writing about it.  It is quite surprising that it is such a big deal for Forrester to declare the smartphone moniker to [...]

May 19, 2009 Read the full article →