A break in our normal program – my WLAN phone
I normally don’t indulge here in gadget bliss, but I wanted to share one thought: I’ve been playing with one of Nokia’s WLAN phones with the n...
Category: The Narrative
MobHappy says: Rudy Can’t Fail
Link: Rudy Can’t Fail at MobHappy. Apologies to Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, but sometimes you just need a title. Anyhow, I just wanted to point to two posts fe...
Amazing growth of mobile subs in Africa
I find it sad that when we say EMEA for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, we really only concentrate on Europe, secondarily on the Middle East, and never on Afri...
SMS isn’t dead yet
What did I tell you? SMS is still growing. Why? Because, among other things, it’s simple to understand and ubiquitous. My friend and I have been working i...
GigaOM on: Mobile Industry Doesn’t Get Consumers
Whoa. And he is so right. Link: GigaOM : � Mobile Industry Doesn’t Get Consumers. My take on this: if you are a wireless carrier, might as well save those milli...
The Wibrary at Untangled Life
I forget how I came across it (thank you, to whomever it was), but this is an interesting and irreverent website and store for untethered (wireless and so on) s...
Joho the Blog on: Martin Varsavsky of Fon
I had heard about FON a while back (when it became public), but I really learned about it directly from Martin when I was in Paris back in December (Les Blogs 2...
Cringely on: Stupid Net Tricks
I’m a long-time fan of Cringley. Here’s some great insight from him regarding all the crying the connectivity providers are doing to lock down the I...
Sippey’s back of the envelope calculations on ad-supported services
Sippey (from Six Apart) was inspired by Kotke’s comments (links in post) regarding ad-supported vs. sponsor-supported services. Sippey then makes a ...
David Harper on: An Open Letter to Google: “Page adapted for mobile phone?” Please stop now, you are crippling sites, not adapting pages.
There has been some angry buzz around Google’s wanton transcoding of web pages. This was inevitable, since transcoding by nature rewrites pages for mobile...