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Making the Most of Mobile Through Partnerships

I have commented about this same topic before… to some of you personally. Just wrote a little something over at the other site but thought I would paste it here directly:
… the entire mobile banking landscape will succeed only through partnerships. Banks partnering with other service providers… (but to what extreme? And at what [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

Is Google Eyeing the Mobile Enterprise with New Management Tools?

The new tools allow Google Apps Premier and Education Edition administrators to manage enterprise smartphones directly from the Google Apps control panel, without having to deploy additional third-party mobile device management software offered by vendors like Sybase iAnywhere and Good Technology (formerly Visto).IT administrators can lock down and remotely wipe data [...]

February 5, 2010 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 →

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 →

Finish Strong Or Stay Home (Some Thoughts On Strategy Implementation)

A good sound strategy is more than a beautifully produced plan with eloquently worded thoughts on the future. It is also more than carefully laid out words on glossy paper. It is also definitely much more than a collection of great ideas. A strategy needs to be executable.
If you don’t [...]

November 3, 2009 Read the full article →

An Analysis of the Google App Market

We started a series a while back on Navigating the Mobile Ecosystem that we have not been that good at keeping current. As you know by now a major element (albeit a new one) in the mobile ecosystem is the application store. Essentially an [mobile] application store is a distribution channel [...]

September 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Links

My handy Google Alerts guided me to Matthew Buckland’s Blog and his Slideshare presentation on Mobile Strategy for Publishers. Below is a brief quote from Matthew’s post followed by the embedded Slideshare deck.
If you’re not a handset maker, a mobile operator or MXIT, then you face some tough challenges in the mobile web environment. [...]

September 4, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking in Canada (Reason 1): Wider, Deeper and Broader Wireless Phone Usage

This post is part of the series we began last week: 12 Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services. As a Canadian consumer of financial services I want those services on my mobile now! This is all part of my own little push to get it done.
Decima Research on behalf of the [...]

August 29, 2009 Read the full article →

Investment in the Silicon Valley Mobile Industry

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley examined investment trends (venture capital funding and acquisitions) in the mobile industry covering 166 companies headquartered in Silicon Valley and San Francisco over a period of 19 years with an emphasis on the past decade.
What can we learn from it? There is money in mobile! Okay, so you already knew that… [...]

August 29, 2009 Read the full article →

12 Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services

I have done work on this topic in the past and today after much procrastination I offer you the beginning of our mini-series on Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services. I say really, beacause really, what is out there is not mobile banking, much less mobile financial services.
As a Canadian consumer [...]

August 19, 2009 Read the full article →

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