Mobile Strategy

Mobile Customer Advocates

Time and time again I see one thing being overlooked in mobile. Can you venture a guess? Would you believe that organizations actually forget about the mobile user and the mobile experience somewhere between concept and implementation?   This is not done on purpose or through some evil plot from the tethered zombies.  It just [...]

July 23, 2010 Read the full article →

AOL Mobile Goes HTML5, Picks Android Over iPhone for New App

Longtime Internet pioneer, AOL today matured its mobile platform with a two new applications for Android handsets and an HTML5 version of the AOL Mobile website for smartphones. The new site — still found at http://m.aol.com — now supports richer content and media on handset browsers supporting HTML5. While it’s not surprising that AOL is [...]

July 22, 2010 Read the full article →

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 →

The Google’s Nexus One experiment and its implications to openness

I was watching Nexus One very carefully especially it’s direct to consumer implications considering my emphasis on the Open Gardens philosophy. By all accounts, the reception has been luke warm and as the fierce wireless article says, when it is available, Nexus one is not in its original incarnation (through a direct to consumer web [...]

May 8, 2010 Read the full article →

Zoompass Announcement Falls Short of ‘my’ expectations

I am not sure I get it at times.  I know that the technology is limited and that a lot of the talk that sometimes goes around is more dreaming than real possibilities. Today’s Zoompass announcement however strikes me more as a step backwards than a forward one.  This is what happens when the initiative [...]

March 3, 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 →

67% Of The World’s Population Are Mobile Subscribers – What are you doing about it?

A new report published yesterday by the UN indicates that 67% of the world’s population, or two-thirds total, are mobile subscribers- far outweighing Online access. 67% of the world’s population represents around 4.6B people, up from only 1B in 2002, indicating staggering continued growth.  In developing nations, however, the uptake is even more substantial with [...]

February 26, 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 →

How you view your employees and their knowledge will determine the success of your implementation…

‘Economists, said John Maynard Keynes, should think of themselves as humble specialists, on a par with dentists. But his advice has gone unheeded. Over the past 50 years, economics and its jargon have penetrated every corner of human life. Decisions to marry and inject heroin alike are explained in terms of utility maximisation. Doctors, priests [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

iPhone Core Location Cannot Be Used Primarily For Advertising

If you were planning on popping a lot of location-based ads into your upcoming killer iPhone app, you might want take a peek at the latest update from Apple for developers. A rather stern note on the site reads: “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based [...]

February 8, 2010 Read the full article →

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