From the category archives:

Mobile 2.0

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 →

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 →

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 [...]

November 16, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Becomes A Social Media Lifeline

Beautiful Sunday morning here in Toronto (Mississauga to be precise).
As I catch up on reading and wait for the family to wake up before we head to church I thought I would share this post from Harvard Business. David Armano writes a Conversation Starter on the Six Social Media Trends for 2010… and these [...]

November 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Money Canada Conference – November 10, 2009

This is exciting for me.  I will be attending and hopefully writing, interviewing and even offering some mobile strategy advice and services to those seeking it.   The event organizers have stated the following three goals for the conference:

Stimulate the growth of a nascent, but promising, Mobile Money industry in Canada
Educate business and technology execs that [...]

October 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Application Development And Consumers – Going From Workflows to Lifeflows

Much has been written on how innovative ideas are born, evolved and tested first on consumers before they make their way into the enterprise. We have seen it with Web 2.0 and social media and social networking.  This is absolutely true and the consumer market proves to be a wonderful and invaluable [...]

October 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Media Convergence and Mobility

Over at The Economist Media Covergence site you will find this neat little video announcing their Media Convergence Forum later this month (October 20-21, 2009 in NYC).  The video which, provided for you below, is about the pace of change…
The surge of new technologies and social media innovations in today’s environment is significantly altering the [...]

October 1, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Application Development: Native or Browser

The discussion rages on. I continue to enjoy the experience of native applications much more. But there seem to be a lot of people out there jumping on the ‘mobile browser application‘ bandwagon. Of course everyone has a reason for it but if we focus solely on the end user (how about [...]

September 11, 2009 Read the full article →

App Store Market Data (from AppsFire)

The mobile service AppsFire released some interesting numbers recently, which are provided for you down at the bottom.  Before the numbers first a brief explanation of what AppsFire is:
AppsFire allows you to share with your friends your lists of favorite iPhone Apps. All you have to do is download and install AppsFire app on [...]

September 9, 2009 Read the full article →

HTML 5 and Mobile Development

You may have seen the story making the rounds.   The original author is Jason Grigsby of CloudFour.  The post is of course related to Google’s argument that the Web will win over the Application store.
Follow this link to the full article… below is Jason’s concluding remark:
From a mobile perspective—and perhaps from the perspective of web [...]

August 11, 2009 Read the full article →