Context

Making Money Mobile – Of Value and Values

Mobile banking, mobile commerce and mobile money for us is mostly out of interest and stems from noticing the opportunity that exists in these areas – a business opportunity.  For others it is about the gadgets, the novelty and the convenience.  In other places around the world, mobile becomes a vehicle through which people can [...]

December 15, 2010 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 →

Of Context and Content

Here is an obvious statement for you to think about: In mobile, context and content are inseperable. Or at least they should be considered inseparable. Context will affect the way you relate to the content available to you.  At times content may affect the way you relate to your context and even force you to [...]

November 4, 2009 Read the full article →

Collection of tiny mobile apps for your iPhone (or my Personalized Enterprise Gateway)

New to me … but probably old to you (remember I don’t use an iPhone in everyday life).  It took me back to some of the projects I have worked on before and the ever present need of providing relevant information to our mobile users/workers. So today I bumped into Leaflets – Leaflets are small, [...]

June 30, 2009 Read the full article →

What do I need right now?

Context (Scenario) As I was thinking about the previous post on context I was sitting inside a bus terminal waiting for one specific bus.  One of only 3 buses in the entire day that drops me off behind my house.   I had never taken that bus before. It was perhaps one of the coldest days [...]

January 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Context Changes Everything

As I left work yesterday in extremely cold temperatures last night I could not ignore the very silly hat the gentleman walking ahead of me was wearing.  Although silly, I guarantee you he was probably much warmer than I was. Context you see changes our behaviours.  In fact I would go even further and state [...]

January 15, 2009 Read the full article →

On Mobile Context

Fraser Speirs has a post entitled:  There is More Than One Mobile Context which I found after visiting Tom Hume’s blog and this post. You can read both posts in their entirety but I wanted to bring you these points… From Fraser: There is more than one mobile context. Decide which you’re interested in. Followed [...]

January 6, 2009 Read the full article →