Need a good summary of the mobile world?
I mentioned earlier, that I heard two talks from d.Construct 2005. The second one was from Tom Hume. Tom delivers a great overview of the state of the mobile in...
Category: The Narrative
Following a thread on freedom, openess, and the evolution of business
I don’t know how I came to find them, but I was listening to two talks from d.Construct 2005, a grass-roots Web 2.0 (splutter, ahem) conference held in No...
Not surprising: More mobile Internet users than wired in Japan
Just saw this in Infoworld (see link below). It’s not surprising. We all know that the mobile will pass the PC in accessing the Web. It is interesting how...
My kid gets mobile: Location-based Music
My kids are quite observant (as most kids are) and are keen to please (as most kids are). Sometimes, this translates into long conversations of potential produc...
MobileCrunch on: Danger Sidekick Users Blow Away SMS and Web-Viewing Averages on Mobile Devices
Oliver brought up an interesting report from Jupiter. I have two things to add to this thread: 1) Nokia has a program for analyzing how people use Series 60 pho...
Got mobile platform stats? Anders does.
Some interesting stats collected and brought into one place by Anders. He’s looking at the different mobile platforms. I am impressed that there are 700M ...
Stephanie on: Alex, Pig, GSM and the Digital Divide
Stephanie has this great article looking into the impact of mobile phones in emerging markets. Emerging markets are a large part of the book I’m working o...
And speaking about going analog…
Even though I live with gadgets and tech, I am not really a gadget person. I think in terms of ‘doing’ things not ‘enablers’ and such. C...
Boston Globe on: PDA buffs go back to basics
Great article in the Boston Globe (link below) investigating the analog counter-culture – pads and pens replacing PDAs. Even though I have have managed my...
Blindspot: Mobile browsing
Yesterday, I had a great, if rushed, conversation with Nokia’s Browser Master, Franklin Davis (nice bio on this page). Franklin has been deep into mobile ...