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Mobile Strategy

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 is [...]

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 [...]

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 57% [...]

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 →

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 [...]

February 5, 2010 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking In Canada: CIBC Gets There First!

Canada your wait is over! CIBC has officially won the race and is the first of the Canadian Banks to offer a full-featured mobile banking application…

February 4, 2010 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Posterous

We are complementing this site with a Mobile Strategy Posterous which we have parked at one of the URL’s we had sitting around – mobilestrategy.ca.   The Posterous site will be used for short snippets and comments on things we see around the web and through our feeds.   If you would like to contribute to the [...]

January 7, 2010 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 →

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