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CTIA was pretty quiet in terms of product annoucements, with most of them front-loaded at the beginning of the year at shows like CES, 3GSM and the Spring CTIA show. But Kyocera was showing off a new product that was very, very cool nonetheless, its KR1 EV-DO Router. It’s pretty straightforward: you take an EV-DO [...]

I wrote about Trip Hawkins and Digital Chocolate last week, when the company released some casual multiplayer games. I noted then that Digital Chocolate’s releases highlighted his understanding of the mass market for video games. While the games aren’t anything with fancy graphics or deep gameplay, they’re much more likely to resonate with a wide [...]

Edgar Bronfman, ever the consumer’s friend and CEO of Warner Music, gave one of the keynotes this morning, and he’s definitely bullish on mobile music — mostly because he thinks it’s a way to stop piracy (which doesn’t really make sense, but then neither does much of what he says about piracy, copy protection and [...]

It was interesting meeting with Amp’d yesterday, then having a chat with another MVNO that will be launching soon, SK Earthlink. The two are targeting the same age group (roughly 18- to 30-year-olds), but whereas Amp’d sees itself as an entertainment company, SK Earthlink is all about the technology.

The SK in the company’s name (which [...]

Some bits and pieces from the first day:

- Had a chat with the head of Rocket Mobile, a company that mainly does BREW development of both applications that get embedded in OEM devices, but also a number of consumer apps. The company’s a good example of how a platform-centric viewpoint can be beneficial: its embedded [...]

I feel it’s pretty safe to say that Amp’d is going to be an incredibly disruptive (or destructive, depending on where you stand) force on the US mobile scene. Their general strategy seems to be “Okay, so everything every incumbent carrier does? Yeah, we’re doing the opposite of that.”

So it’s EV-DO phones (from Kyocera and [...]

I had a meeting this morning with some people from the Open Mobile Alliance, who were, um, kind enough to add the chair of their DRM working group to the meeting (without my knowledge, although I didn’t really mind), to address my fairly strong feelings about it. OMA’s in an interesting position on this and [...]