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Thinking About RIM, its people and its future

First of all let me tell you something that has been heavily on my mind over the last week or so – RIM is NOT Nortel.  I will write more about that later on, but I believe that Research In Motion and its BlackBerry line of products and services has a long life left in [...]

July 29, 2011 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Mobile Trends 2020

Most of you have probably seen the presentation and the blog post at Rudy’s site but for those of you who haven’t I thought a good way of kicking off our first post of the year is to view this collection of predictions from the experts for the decade ahead.  I offer no commentary … [...]

January 7, 2010 Read the full article →

Just For Fun: Google Goggles

From time to time we have a Just For Fun post. Now is the time for one. Except that this one is much more than just for fun, it is a glimpse into the future… and the future is now. What is Google Goggles? You do have to watch the video below, but in essence [...]

December 16, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Analytics Providers – Updated with Umber Systems

It has been a while since I last updated the Mobile Analytics Providers list.  The folks at Umber recently dropped me a note to alert me of their company.  So they have become provider number 38 on our Mobile Analytics list. Note from their website that there is an emphasis on ‘data’ with terms like [...]

December 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Commentary on Google’s Acquisition of AdMob

As you can probably tell I have been away.  But before I get to the summary of the Mobile Money Conference (in the next post) I want to get this out of the way to avoid any distractions.  What can be better than my opinion on Google’s acquisition of AdMob?  Well … the opinion of [...]

November 13, 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 →

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