Reading all the 2006 recaps and 2007 predictions (and writing my own) has put me in something of a big-picture frame of mind lately. It’s far easier to focus on the things the mobile industry tosses up each day, like a new device or service, rather than keep the bigger picture in mind. This all [...]
Archive | January, 2007
Carnival 58 at TomSoft
Thomas Landspurg has Carnival 58 up at his TomSoft site, so be sure to check it out for week’s best writing about mobile.
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Hooray for Spammers
You might have noticed that we’ve been having some troubles staying up today. It would appear that this is due to an onslaught of comment spam, causing the site to eat up resources on the shared server we use, which tripped some limits at the hosting provider and led them to choke the site.
The upshot [...]
2007 Predictions 8 and 9
Here’s my penultimate burst of predictions for this year – don’t forget to add yours in a comment or link from your own blog.
 
Prediction 8 – Mobile Payments
 
Carlo has already given his take on mobile payments next year and to a large extent I agree with him that the future probably lies with contactless payments (such as [...]
2007 Predictions
As Russell promised, here are my predictions for 2007 following my stellar performance last year. You get all ten of mine in one go, though. Be sure to add your own predictions, or link to them elsewhere, in the comments.
1. Lots of mobile TV hype, but little in the way of actual success.
CES saw some [...]
TOMMIE Gets it Sorted
We don’t cover many enterprise type applications here, but that’s no reason not to when one comes along that’s neat and produced by some old pals, which you can take as a sort of declaration of interest. Having said that, no matter how well you might know me, I won’t write about your stuff unless [...]
2007 Predictions – 5, 6 and 7
A couple of quick ones today, as we continue to look at what’s going to happen this year, in my humble opinion.
Prediction 5 – European Data Tariffs
The Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge’s¬†colloquial little fella has taken his finger out of the dyke and flat rate data packages have started to trickle into the marketplace with products [...]
More Views On The iPhone
Obviously the big story of the day is still the iPhone. In addition to Russell’s thoughts and my own, plenty of folks are weighing in. Interestingly, there seems to be a trend developing — picking out plenty of flaws, but ending with “I still want one.”
Mike Rowehl: “The mobile gardens have been tending toward unwalling, [...]
iPhone Thoughts Part 2
Well, what is there to say that hasn’t been said already, both by Carlo here and everywhere else on the web?
Great product, great showmanship, can’t wait to try it.
I do have a couple of thoughts though.
On the downside, outside the US, as Tomi points out, the killer app on mobiles is still dear old sms. [...]
Finally, the iPhone
Well, it’s finally here: Steve Jobs is onstage announcing the iPhone at this moment. Follow the action at Engadget.
I’ll have more thoughts on it later, but my initial reaction: shiny. And that’s about it.
Update: Wow, not sure where to start. First, I don’t think you can think of this as a phone, really (nor does [...]
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