News

Mobile banking in its infancy in Canada but smartphones will push up its use

This post is both a teaser and a distraction for those of you still waiting for a continuation of our series on Mobile Banking.  Reuters ran a story yesterday which was picked up by quite a few news outlets in Canada (to my amazement).  The story really reflects why we started our series here entitled [...]

September 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Just For Fun: Samsung 12MP Camera Phone

Once in a while we stray and want to look at a device or two… just for fun! Samsung has rightly made the world’s first phone with 12MP camera and optical zoom official. AMOLED 12M or SCH-W880 can take pictures at 12 megapixel resolution and offers 3x optical zoom, 2x digital zoom, 720p video recording [...]

September 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Monday Morning Mobile Catchup – September 28/09

Some readable goodies for you on this Monday Morning (almost lunch time now). If you are feeling up to it catch up on some interesting news from last week by following the links below. They are not organized and I provide no comments. Just stuff for you to read or ignore… there are some good [...]

September 28, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Analytics Update

Just added four more providers to the Mobile Analytics page.   There is obviously further parsing and analysis that needs to be done… but for now it is just a list and it is your job to go find them.  The response so far has been great – if you have any further information please [...]

September 24, 2009 Read the full article →

List of Mobile Analytics Providers

Late last night we created a new page – Mobile Analytics. Today this link takes you to a comprehensive list of mobile analytics providers. Of course this is only the beginning. This is not a complete list and we fully expect to update it over the coming days and weeks. The intent is to eventually [...]

September 22, 2009 Read the full article →

Monday Morning Mobile Catchup – September 21/09

Some readable goodies for you on this Monday Morning.  If you are feeling up to it you can catch up on some of the more interesting news from last week by following the links below. They are not organized and I provide no comments. Just stuff for you to read or ignore. Samsung Apps mobile [...]

September 21, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Search Now With Video – YellowPages.ca iPhone App Updated

Yellowpages.ca issued a press release this morning announcing a sweet update to their iPhone application: New Version of YellowPages.ca™ Mobile Search Application for the iPhone™ puts Video in the Palm of your Hands (links and pictures below). Yellow Pages Group (YPG)(TSX:YLO.UN) launches a new version of its popular YellowPages.caTM local search application for the Apple [...]

September 17, 2009 Read the full article →

Is the iPhone Suddenly Incompatible With Exchange?

A friend of mine just sent me this link with only one comment: “Love It!” You can imagine he is one of the greatest BlackBerry advocates (and probably one of the smartest ones too). Infoworld published the following article yesterday – Apple betrays the iPhone’s business hopes: Fixing a major but unacknowledged bug in the [...]

September 16, 2009 Read the full article →

The Right Device for the Developing World

A while back we wrote a post entitled Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development which was fairly well received.  Although this topic may be considered slightly off-topic to some of you it is still a very hot topic out there.   If you are interested Quocirca has a small write-up on entitled – The right device for [...]

September 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Monday Morning Mobile Catchup – September 14/09

I trust you all had a great weekend. The following post initially started as a mobile weekend post to provide you some reading material in case you were bored but I never finished it so it has now become a Monday Morning Mobile Catchup. If you are up to it you can catch up on [...]

September 13, 2009 Read the full article →