Back, with a vengeance.
- Operator’s Greed puts creativity at risk (Musings of a mobile marketer)
- Blogging, Rhetoric and The Sound of Reason on BlackBerry (Mobile Enterprise Weblog)
- The End User: Noticing a red flag (IHT)
- Hilton hacker sentenced to juvenile hall (ZDNet)
- DRM delayed Nokia’s ‘iPod’ phone (The Register)
- DoCoMo delays handset launch (FT)
- Yahoo! [...]
Archive | February, 2006
Links for February 23
Gizmondo: The Story That Keeps On Giving
We’ve done a fairly thorough job of chronicling the “rise” and demise of Gizmondo. The fun really started when Russell unearthed the company’s, uh, interesting executive renumeration scheme, and continued with the news that some of the execs had served jail time for organized crime and fraud. Unsurprisingly, the company has gone under — but [...]
In Case You Missed It, 3 Italy Postpones IPO
I didn’t see this story get a lot of play, whether it was simply because I’d already left for Barcelona, or because it got lost by everybody else in the 3GSM shuffle, but it’s worth noting that Hutchison Whampoa postponed the IPO of 3 Italia. This is the second time it’s been postponed, this one [...]
3GSM Impressions #3
As I’ve already written, 3GSM is huge and even spending all 4 days there would probably mean missing out on lots it has to offer. It would also leave you a foot-sore wreck, badly in need of a detox and a break from mobile stuff.
It’s very well organised as an event, but I do have [...]
SNAPin – Winner of the Buckley 3GSM Award
The star of the 3GSM show for me was a young, US-based start-up called SNAPin, which has developed a brilliant, bit of software that solves so much operator and user pain, it takes a little thought to get your mind around the implications.
SNAPin isn’t a sexy, in-your-face application, but works almost unobtrusively in the background [...]
3GSM Impressions #2 – Where Were All the Women?
About 55,000 people attend 3GSM and the exhibition is spread across 8 (that I discovered) massive exhibition halls. It’s HUGE.
But the overwhelming impression is of men in dark suits going about their business. If I had to guess, 95% or so seemed to be men.
The lack of women is actually emphasised by the use of [...]
3GSM Impressions #1 – Where Was the Big News?
I’m just back from 3GSM after a hectic round of meetings, networking, exhibition hall trudging and a soupcon of partying. For those of you who didn’t make it, here’s a quick snapshots and for those of you that did – why didn’t you come and say hello?
Carlo’s been doing a great job of keeping us [...]
3GSM – What All Those New Smartphones Mean, And It’s A Lot
In my earlier post, I pointed out how smartphones are moving to the mass market. This has significant ramifications for the whole industry, not the least of which mobile application sales.
The application download and sales environment is something of a holdover from the days of the PDA: people, typically professional or prosumer users or early [...]
3GSM – ShoZu: It’s All About The User Experience
ShoZu is a pretty fine photo-sharing application, and an even more exciting service. It’s a consumer application that’s risen from the operator-licensed Cognima Snap (see our previous posts on it for background), and has been received very enthusiastically — so much so that Cognima has stopped licensing Snap and only servicing existing deployments in order [...]
3GSM – Smartphones Start Moving To The Mass Market
Smartphone OS developers have for some time been looking to move their products deeply into the mass market, aiming to take smartphones down from the high end and solidly into the midrange of the market. It’s a strategy that looks like it’s quite near to bearing fruit, with a number of developments this week highlighting [...]
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