Location search is slowly coming of age, after a childhood rich on promise but suffering numerous setbacks. Like all childhoods, it’s also seemed to have lasted forever, especially for the parents anxious to rid themselves of the endless expenditure and see their prodigy stand on its two financial feet. OK, enough of the childhood metaphor. [...]
Archive | December, 2007
Say It Ain’t So, T-Mobile — Stop Blocking Twitter
I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for several years now. I’ve always been happy with them — they offer good prices for their services, and their customer service has always been great (as I’ve written before. But I’m left reconsidering that this morning, as apparently T-Mobile has decided to block messages its users send to Twitter’s [...]
links for 2007-12-15
BREAKING: Officially unlocked iPhones not really unlocked – iPhone Atlas (tags: iphone apple) FT.com / Technology – High bills threaten iPhone‚Äôs US user abroad You might think the editor of Wired would know how these things work… and the “glitch” is that AT&T’s roaming and billing systems work… (tags: apple iphone whining) —–>Follow us on [...]
links for 2007-12-14
Qualcomm Fails to Block Nokia Handset Imports into the USA (tags: qualcomm nokia patents legal) Wireless E-Mail Set for Prime Growth in Europe (tags: email predictions) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Hippies, Mobile and Capitalism
Like so many other industries, the green business craze is evident in mobile. Nokia stressed its green cred at its event in Amsterdam last week, and just today, Vodafone and Ericsson announced that the operator would use Ericsson’s Power Savings feature in its base stations. The feature “significantly reduces energy consumption in mobile networks and [...]
A Few Words On Motorola and Palm’s Attempts To Turnaround
The WSJ has a couple of good articles about Motorola and Palm today, taking a look at their efforts to turn things around. First, the paper’s venerable Word on the Street column takes a look at what might happen if the company got broken up. A lot of investors, including Carl Icahn, think that Motorola [...]
BusinessWeek Figures Out That Analyst Predictions Are Mostly Worthless
A piece on the BusinessWeek site today, called “Mobile Ads: Not So Fast” caught my eye: Ads on cell phones have long been hailed as the next big thing. But flipping through industry forecasts, Didier Kuhn says, “I don’t believe the figures I am seeing.” And he doesn’t mean that in a rah-rah kind of [...]
MMS Better Than A Mobile Site For Small Businesses?
An interesting comment from Steve Procter of iTAGG over at SMS Text News. Orange UK released some usage stats this week which say its 15.4 million users sent 7 million MMS in August, leading with the fact that it’s up 37% from May, though overall usage still remains pretty low. But Steve raised an interesting [...]
Another Glorious Example Of Customer Service
A Canadian oil worker managed to run up an $85,000 phone bill with Bell Mobility after erroneously thinking he could use his handset, and its $10 unlimited internet plan, as modem for his computer. We’ve seen this sort of story before, dating back to Joi Ito’s GPRS roaming bill in 2004, and more recently with [...]
links for 2007-12-12
Music 2.0 – Exploring Chaos in Digital Music ¬ª Time for Luddite & Wanton Label Chiefs to go (tags: music) Mobile Phone Development ¬ª Blog Archive ¬ª LiPS vs OHA Android (tags: mobile-linux android lips) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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