A potentially disruptive thought
Risto Koski, a colleague from Nokia, and I were having a deep discussion when he naturally suggested that why bother making phones with both WiFi and cellular c...
Category: Strategy
WINKsite: fusing the mobile and Web worlds through barcodes
You all know my fascination with WINKsite, a really versatile service for building mobile Web sites that fits into the mobile lifestyle. It’s simple, easy...
Tomi Ahonen on: What happens when majority access web via mobile phone
Tomi has a good take on some recent data from Ipsos Research. Very much in line with what I have been saying here (eh, a few points rub me the wrong way, but th...
Tom Hume ponders: SMS and IM
Tom makes a brief comment on the nuances of IM and SMS. There are a few good comments, so go read them. But, if I may extend what Enrique (CEO) mentioned: SMS a...
Observation for the weekend – the real effect of phone subsidies
I think most of us who complain about the operators and their subsidies might really have a blindspot. We are looking from the vantage point of power users who ...
New fasion magazine – online and downloadable for mobile phones
Posing (l to r): Tuomas (photographer, extraordinaire), Toni (publisher, Brand magazine), Anina, and Reidar (marketing dude, Samsung) I got an unexpected call y...
New phones from Nokia
Not that I am enamored with phone launches (you get kinda jaded after many years of changing phones every 6 months), but today Nokia launched 3 new Nseries phon...
When you give a telco a server…
I just attended a nice talk by Henry Sinnreich, CTO from Pulver.com, on P2P SIP. He was promoting P2P SIP since it solved many overhead issues, such as central ...
MobHappy points out: Why Emerging Markets Get So Much Attention
What have I been saying? Oh boy oh boy, and the parameters are all converging nicely for growth in the emerging markets similar to the growth we saw in 99-01 in...
GigaOM on: Make That Device Simple
Link: GigaOM : Make That Device Simple. University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business researchers Roland Rust and Rebecca Hamilton just finished a...