Research

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 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 →

The Mobile Industry In 2009

Over at Tomi Ahonen’s Communities Dominate Brands Blog is a great summary post of the size of the Mobile Industry in 2009.  Below is an excerpt: The mobile telecoms industry became one of only a handful industries on the planet to generate one Trillion dollars last year and out of that, roughly speaking 800 B [...]

December 17, 2009 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 →

13 Things To Remember When Integrating Mobility (Or How To Avoid Process Peddlers)

Regardless of whether it is the first time your mobile workers receive a device, or if you are deploying a new application, your people and your processes will never be the same. Mobility changes the way we work; it is transformational and because of this you need to pay very close attention to your processes. [...]

December 9, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy for Small Business: It’s About Local Convenience

Small businesses are an under served market in mobility. We constantly hear about the importance of small businesses to our economies, yet today few would argue that this sector is properly served and serviced from a mobility standpoint. Of course, carriers have plans but many times they simply rebrand a family plan as a small [...]

December 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Applications and Loyalty

Add this one to the interesting and confusing column. But you should still pay close attention. Take a look at the following: 73 percent of Blackberry owners have downloaded 5 or fewer applications; in contrast,  72 percent of iPhone owners have downloaded 10 or more applications. [Source] Smartphone Owners Only Use Half of Installed Applications [...]

October 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Venture Capital Investment Climbs in Q3 2009 (in Mobile Too)

If you found our popular and not so old post on Silicon Valley investments into the mobile industry interesting you will probably find the information released at ChubbyBrain yesterday both interesting and encouraging… And now it’s official: with ChubbyBrain’s latest numbers tallied, we can announce that money flowing from venture capital investors to entrepreneurs increased [...]

October 14, 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 →

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