February 19th, 2008 |
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One of the more interesting quotes from last week’s Mobile Congress came from Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin who cautioned mobile carriers that “we must not allow ourselves to become bit-pipes and let somebody else do the services work.”
I’ve been waiting for one of the carriers to say something like this. I’m certain that carriers will be conflicted in the coming months as they realize that there is a lot of revenue to be made from data services, but to capture this money, they give up control to companies like Apple, Google and Nokia.
In response to Sarin’s comments, Ajit Jaokar has a great post comparing mobile carriers to the builders of the silk road. In it, he writes:
But by common consensus, the company everyone wanted to meet was not an Operator - It was Apple. Like it or not - Google, Apple, Nokia and others drive the agenda today – and already with the launch of iPhone – the Operator is already a bit pipe. There may be no going back since iTunes is the billing mechanism for iPhone.
The truth is that mobile carriers are going to be bit pipes. The transition has already started. I expect to see a lot of carriers vacillate between opening their networks in order to provide more data services that consumers want and fighting the changes to the market that will mean that their importance is diminished.
February 18th, 2008 |
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February 17th, 2008 |
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Recap of the news from Mobile Congress and all of the iPhone related news.
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95% of AT&T’s iPhone customers regularly surf the Internet. Data services revenue increased from $2.7 billion in 2005 to $6.9 billion in 2007.
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The results provide evidence that cell phones reduce grain price dispersion across markets by a minimum of 6.4 percent and reduce intra-annual price variation by 10 percent.
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Google sees 50 times more searches on iPhone than any other mobile handset.“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.”
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Interesting combination of Facebook, mobile coupons and SMS.
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“What if a brand could determine who, what, when and where a coupon was used?”
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Social networking app for mobile. multiple networks
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February 16th, 2008 |
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Mac screencasting software
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“According to China Mobile, the biggest wireless carrierin China, there were about 400,000 cracked iPhones using its cellular network service at the end of 2007, representing one out of every 10 iPhone shipments announced officially by Apple.”
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Wow, what an amazing feat. The balloon looks exactly like Vader’s helmet.
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“There is now more than good reason to expect that no biofuel from seeds, possibly none (even cellulosic) grown on land that could grow food, will reduce global warming if substituted for petroleum products.”
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A way to make more complex form layouts simpler
February 13th, 2008 |
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A quick reminder that I’m going to be speaking at the PDX Web Innovators meeting this evening on Mobile Web and the upcoming mobile tsunami.
Here are the details:
Graciously Hosted by Nemo Design
1875 Se Belmont St
Portland, Oregon
February 13th, 7 pm
PDX Web Innovators
RSVP Here
I hope to see you there.
February 11th, 2008 |
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Nice service for doing visualization of data. Very cool. May be what is being used to generate the graphs in this blog post: http://gobigalways.com/some-proof-that-departments-can-become-porous/
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Examines how the internal usage of Jive’s software shows how departments communicate.
February 10th, 2008 |
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“There is no other way to say it. Holy cow is this thing fast! I am currently testing Webkit build r30090 (DMG download link) against standard Leopard Safari 3.04. This unoptimized WebKit build version is running circles around the standard Safari browser
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W3C launches effort to standardize ways to interact with things like battery charge, cameras, etc.
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Great videos exploring how a caricature artist attempts to capture the essence of candidates through their body language.
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Motorcycle helmet with integrated mobile phone that calls 911 automatically if the wearer is injured. It’s like OnStar on your head.
February 9th, 2008 |
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“Money:Tech, where businesspeople outnumber developers, the tool of choice to enable continuous partial attention is a mobile device, not a laptop. To my surprise, roughly 80% of my Money:Tech rowmates had iPhones in hand. I expected New Yorkers to be a B
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Open source php library for generating QR codes
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Good example of how carriers cause trouble for themselves by the way they treat customers. It’s funny that they spend so much time enticing switchers and so little retaining current customers.
February 9th, 2008 |
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I stumbled across another fun article from the NY Times about the mobile market tonight. Here are some choice quotes:
We are writing Chapter 2 of the history of personal computers.
This could be “the mother of all markets.”
Now guess who said them.
If you followed the recent Davos coverage, you’d probably guess that the first quote is from Google CEO Eric Schmidt who compared mobile to the recreation of the Internet. The second quote is almost verbatim what SanDisk CEO Dr. Eli Harari said during CES in January.
As you can probably guess by the set up, the quotes aren’t from Schmidt or Harari. They are from Nobuo Mii and John Sculley respectively. And they said them in 1992.
They got things right, but they were off on timing by a decade and half. By contrast, Intel’s Andy Grove called “the idea of a wireless personal communicator in every pocket is ‘a pipe dream driven by greed.’”
He was right about it being a pipe dream in 1992. 2008 is a different story. Intel itself has in many ways bet its company’s fortune on the expanding mobile market. The pipe dream is now reality.
February 9th, 2008 |
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