Mobile Ecosystem

Network As A Service: A Carrier’s Differentiator

I briefly interrupt my slumber to highlight an announcement from yesterday. Over the years our attention has shifted away from the carriers/operators.  We only remember them to complain about them or to comment on AT & T’s iPhone exclusivity.   Shiny devices from iPhone to Nexus One to RIM’s devices have made our eyes sparkle.   [...]

May 8, 2010 Read the full article →

Is Microsoft’s Mobile Strategy better than what we give it credit for?

…buried in yesterday’s Pew Internet report, “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer” it appears that Ballmer has cleared a way to score a future goal. The survey indicated that more than half of US consumers already get news and other real-time information wirelessly via laptops. This is a field which Steve still has a lot of [...]

March 2, 2010 Read the full article →

Making the Most of Mobile Through Partnerships

I have commented about this same topic before… to some of you personally. Just wrote a little something over at the other site but thought I would paste it here directly: … the entire mobile banking landscape will succeed only through partnerships. Banks partnering with other service providers… (but to what extreme? And at what [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

Is Google Eyeing the Mobile Enterprise with New Management Tools?

The new tools allow Google Apps Premier and Education Edition administrators to manage enterprise smartphones directly from the Google Apps control panel, without having to deploy additional third-party mobile device management software offered by vendors like Sybase iAnywhere and Good Technology (formerly Visto).IT administrators can lock down and remotely wipe data from lost or stolen [...]

February 5, 2010 Read the full article →

The Mobile Industry In 2009

Over at Tomi Ahonen’s Communities Dominate Brands Blog is a great summary post of the size of the Mobile Industry in 2009.  Below is an excerpt: The mobile telecoms industry became one of only a handful industries on the planet to generate one Trillion dollars last year and out of that, roughly speaking 800 B [...]

December 17, 2009 Read the full article →

Professional Services in Mobility: Who Would You Trust?

Several people over the last week have informed me that one of the Canadian carriers is close to launching a new professional services group in Canada. The details around that are sketchy but this raises the question as to who should really provide professional services in the mobile space. A couple of rhetorical questions to [...]

December 11, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy for Small Business: It’s About Local Convenience

Small businesses are an under served market in mobility. We constantly hear about the importance of small businesses to our economies, yet today few would argue that this sector is properly served and serviced from a mobility standpoint. Of course, carriers have plans but many times they simply rebrand a family plan as a small [...]

December 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Financial Services In Canada

My intent was always to provide a recap of last week’s inaugural Mobile Money Canada conference. I was going to review the event itself, the speakers and even the audience.  However much has gotten in the way of doing that for you – even though I feel a certain sense of obligation to provide you [...]

November 16, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Site Visitors and Mobile Themes

In an effort to understand why some of you visit the Mobile Strategy Blog I have done a quick analysis of the search engine referrals. Of course this is a circuitous analysis because your searches bring you here due to the content and keywords on this site which are indexed by the search engines (mostly [...]

November 5, 2009 Read the full article →

Just For Fun: Microsoft Makes Fun of App Store

A lot of truth in this half-funny video regarding the App Store and poor applications.  But of course funny videos could also be aimed at Windows Marketplace, BlackBerry App World, etc… But for the sake of simply having fun take a look at the video below. I found it over here.

October 27, 2009 Read the full article →

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