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Newsletter Archive 2010 |
Getting Ahead Of The Wireless Competition
The mobile and local search markets have seen immense growth at rates never seen before over the last three years. Yet still, they are on the verge of taking off to a higher level with huge growth forecasts for the mobile industry just released recently.
Date: 2010-07-19
Yahoo! Launches Android Apps
Android’s appeal, at least to me, is its integration with Google services. As I wrote on Tuesday, this includes not only synced services like Gmail and GChat, but also web-apps like Google Reader and Google Docs. They might not have their own dedicated applications, but the mobile sites are well-designed and make for easy browsing and reading.
Date: 2010-07-07
How Mobile Apps Are Changing The Face Of Enterprise Telephony
The growing demand for mobile applications is set to challenge the apprehension that enterprise telephony buyers have towards open source telephony offerings.
Date: 2010-06-21
AT&T New Data Plan Could Spell Bad News For Music Apps
AT&T is replacing its $29.99 per moth unlimited data plan, popular with iPhone and iPad users, with $15 (200MB) and $25 (2G) plans. While a reported 95% of mobile users do not currently exceed the 2G limit, increased use of new video and music in the cloud applications could lead to additional charges.
Date: 2010-06-10
Is All Mobile Truly Social?
Five years ago, penning a MediaPost piece that feels like it was written far more recently, I asked, "Is all mobile local?" That question would have been a more fitting title for the column rather than the wonkier one I used, "The Mobile-Local Redundancy," which sounds like a rejected name for a Jason Bourne movie.
Date: 2010-05-27
Android OS Takes The Number Two Smart Phone Position
Google's Android mobile operating system continued to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market in the first quarter of 2010, moving past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to The NPD Group.
Date: 2010-05-12
Connecting A Wireless Keyboard To Your iPad
I'm a bit baffled: I already paired my Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard with my new iPad 3G [ed: see pair a bluetooth keyboard with an iPad] but for some reason when I try to hook it up a second time the iPad sees the keyboard but can't pair to it.
Date: 2010-04-28
Keeping Your WiFi Secure Against Internet Pirates
Now that the Digital Economy Bill is now the Digital Economy Act – a piece of legislation that has been bitterly opposed by many – a report in today's Guardian says that the likelihood for innocent people to be accused of illegal file downloading has greatly increased because of this new law.
Date: 2010-04-14
Verizon iPhone Talks Heat Up With New Reports
Verizon and Apple both, made big gains on Wall Street as highly substantial rumors were being made of Verizon finally getting support for the iPhone. WSJ.com has cited unnamed sources, though they seem positive that their information is accurate.
Date: 2010-03-31
HTC Planning To Fight Apple Lawsuit, Issues Press Release
The battle for smartphone domination is heating up, and along with fighting for consumer dollars, the battle will also take place in a courtroom. Apple brought a lawsuit against HTC for violating many of it's patents, all of which are in regards to smartphone tech.
Date: 2010-03-19
Wireless Smartphone Usage To Surge This Year
Here are more 2010 predictions. Forrester has issued a report, Collaboration Needs Will Fuel A Smartphone Surge, by Ted Schadler with Matthew Brown, Brownlee Thomas, Michele Pelino, and Peter Schmidt, with the subtitle: The Surge Can Be Funded Through A Bring-Your-Own Smartphone Strategy.
Date: 2010-03-03
A Veritable Army Of Androids Coming This Year
There are already over 100 different Android phone choices worldwide scheduled to be made available in 2010 after the recent announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Date: 2010-02-19
Google's Android Mobile OS To Hit #2
Industry think tank IDC is predicting that the Android OS will continue with its momentum, eroding marketshare from Symbian and secure the #2 spot in the mobile OS arena within a couple of years.
Date: 2010-02-03
Google's Nexus One Sales Less Then Stellar
With all of the press in the gadget and Internet marketing world last week around the introduction of the Google Nexus One smart phone you would think that there would be a rush to buy them.
Date: 2010-01-20
Is AT&T Struggling With Its Own Success?
You don't have to look very far, especially in the online space, to find a disgruntled AT&T wireless customer. If you would like to increase your likelihood of finding a seething AT&T wireless customer just ask around in New York and San Francisco for iPhone users.
Date: 2010-01-06
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