This week, I’ll be speaking at the Guardian’s Mobile Business Summit, which has an excellent line up, as you would expect. If you’re going to be there, please come and say Hi. My session is about mCommerce – no surprises there. But I think we often lose sight of what mCommerce is as it embraces [...]
Archive | Analysis RSS feed for this section
SOS – Support Our Stores
by Russell Buckley on 04. Dec, 2011 in Analysis, Mobile coupons, Mobile Phone Evolution
Gen MO – Mobile-Only Generation
by Russell Buckley on 15. Dec, 2010 in Analysis, Mobile Society
One of the theories many of us have been writing about for ages now is that there’s a whole bunch of people who are part of Gen MO. Or people who use the mobile exclusively. To be clear, this is not about cutting the cord and getting rid of landlines, but people who only access [...]
Blacklist of “unsavoury characters”
by Russell Buckley on 30. Nov, 2010 in Analysis, Services
TechCrunch covered an interesting story this morning about a blacklist of people and companies to avoid doing business with if you’re a startup – or anyone with access to the database, I guess. It’s the brainchild of The Founder Institute, a very early stage startup accelerator and entrepreneur training program, with branches throughout the world. [...]
MMS Officially Huge
by Russell Buckley on 08. Jun, 2010 in Analysis
If you haven’t read our friend, Tomi Ahonen’s post “Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile, but were afraid to ask” over at Communities Dominate Brands, you really should. It’s a little long (no surprises there from our Tomi!) but is worth every minute you invest reading it. This applies if you’re a died-in-the-wool [...]
Unintended Consequences and the Success of Blackberry in the Middle East
by Russell Buckley on 25. Mar, 2010 in Analysis
I’m attending ArabNet currently, which is a large web conference taking place in Beirut. I’m speaking tomorrow, so if you’re here too let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to cover – and come and say hello. One of the interesting aspects of the region is the huge success of Blackberry over and [...]
Offensive Advertising
by Russell Buckley on 12. Mar, 2010 in Analysis, Marketing
French Connection, (aka FCUK) no stranger to courting controversy, announced today a joint promotion with Chatroulette. If you’ve been on digital hunger-strike recently, Chatroullette is a service which allows you to video conference with a series of random sad blokes and their penises. Rumours of girls using the service are yet to be confirmed by [...]
Mob4Hire Taking Off
by Russell Buckley on 19. Feb, 2010 in 3GSM/MWC, Analysis, awards
One of the finalists of last year’s Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona was Mob4Hire, which showed an awful lot of potential. I caught up with them this year again at MWC and was really pleased to see that they were fulfilling their early promise and adding new services to their core offering. Mob4Hire is the [...]
Digital Trash II
by Russell Buckley on 12. Feb, 2010 in Analysis
About a month ago, I wrote a post exploring the potential downsides of the new hot topic of Augmented Reality. As a reminder, while I’m a huge fan of AR and have been for years, but that doesn’t mean that I’m blind to future problems, unlike many pundits who are busy hyping it up. One [...]
How To ….. Do Well at the Mobile Premier Awards
by Russell Buckley on 03. Feb, 2010 in Analysis
As I wrote on my previous post, this is my fourth year judging the Mobile Premier Awards, so I thought I’d give you some tips about how to put your company in danger of winning something. If you know someone who is presenting, you might like to point them over here as a kind of [...]
The Disruption of Politics
by Russell Buckley on 26. Jan, 2010 in Analysis
There are a bunch of sectors going through huge disruptions at the moment, whether it’s newspapers, telephony (via VoIP), books, TV, music, film, mobile handsets and if those rumours are right, the PC might be coming in for a fair bit of disruption tomorrow too. But one sector that is changing and doesn’t get a [...]
Recent Comments