The 34th Carnival is at the World Wireless Forum, so hop over and have a read. In particular, don’t forget to vote for the best post of the month on the Carnival of the Mobilists Website. Go on, make a blogger’s day and they’ll win $250, courtesy¬†of the nice people at Khosla Ventures. If you’re [...]
Archive | June, 2006
Catching Up With Orb
I wrote about Orb back in April after CTIA, so it was good to catch up with Ian McCarthy, Orb’s VP, Product Marketing today. If you don’t remember the original post, Orb make a free app that sits on your PC that then enables you to stream anything you have on it to your mobile. [...]
Xero – We Told You So
Since Carlo is off taking a well earned break at the moment, I thought I’d take over as our resident Gizmondo/Xero correspondent to announce that the SEC is already investigating Xero, according to Moco News. Xero, in case you missed it, is the semi-pheonix operation that rose out of the insane Gizmondo company that was [...]
The Death of Intel
What would you think about a company in 1960 that decided to withdraw from the colour television market and focus on black & white TVs? Or a software company in 1997 that decided that this internet thing really wasn’t worth pursuing? Well, I think we’ll look back at Intel’s remarkable decision today in the same [...]
When Things Go Wrong
UPDATE: Very funny video on the same lines here. Thanks, Mark. Please forgive this slightly off-topic post, but I think it has important lessons for any organisation with customers, and is therefore worthy of consideration. I came back from a week in Silicon Valley on Saturday morning, flying with Delta via Atlanta to Munich. A [...]
LBS Coming of Age?
I had a great chat yesterday with the LBS team at Openwave here in California. They read MobHappy and invited me in for an exchange of views while I was here. It’s nice to meet other people who are still true believers in the success of LBS, albeit with a realistic view of the market [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists # 33
Head on over to Rudy de Waele’s m-trends for this week’s ‚ÄúL‚Äô?¢ge du Christ‚Äù edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. Rudy’s done an excellent hosting job and there’s some very interesting stuff contributed by quite a few newbies, lots of women, which is cool, and some old hands too. Your must-read of the week. [...]
Growing Interest In Backup Power Supplies
As the batteries in mobile handsets have improved, running out of power seems to have become less of a problem. But as battery-draining features like Wi-Fi and mobile TV proliferate, perhaps it will be a bigger issue. It’s interesting, then, to see companies announcing different products to give mobile users a boost when they’re low [...]
Palo Alto or Bust
A bunch of MobHappy readers and Mobile Monday peeps are meeting up at about 7.00 at the upstairs barhere at the Blue Chalk. Feel free to pop by if you’re in the area. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Stupid Analyst Report To End All Stupid Analyst Reports
Regular readers will be familiar with my fondess for stupid analyst reports, but this latest one really takes the cake. Stupid topic, stupid theory and stupid all around: Text-savvy Southerners may help explain why all five “American Idol” winners hail from south of the Mason Dixon line, according to figures from The NPD Group. Cingular [...]
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