Mar 8 2010
29 € for 60 minutes on Orange, ready to use and contract-free. Jason Bourne would be proud. Wonderful concept.
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Posts tagged “Mobile”
Feb 16 2010
“Windows Phone 7 is hanging over them (Windows Mobile 6.5 phones) like a particularly sharp and heavy Damoclean sword.”
Feb 11 2010
Will we get bored of Four Square or is there a generational shift at play?
Jan 19 2010
Mobile app predictions for 2013 from Gartner:
- 21.6 billion apps downloaded (about 2.5 billion in 2009)
- $29.5 billion revenue
- 25% of revenue will be free apps using advertising ($7.3 billion)
- 2009: a downloaded app generates $1.68 of revenue
- 2013 (estimated): a downloaded app generates $1.36 of revenue
Jan 7 2010
“Sam Altman, the chief executive of Loopt, a mobile tracking service that allows users to monitor friends’ locations using the G.P.S. software on their cellphones, said he was seeing social mores shift firsthand. About 20 percent of Loopt’s users are couples who buy the service to keep track of each other’s whereabouts. But in the past six months, there has been an increase in the number of customers who use fake locations as a decoy so a person doesn’t know where they are, Mr. Altman said, a service that Loopt offers.”
Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl - NYTimes.com
Fascinating consequence of using mobile tracking services.
Dec 8 2009
developers, carriers, publishers and others in the ecosystem should consider it a new operating system. That’s because Samsung has built an accompanying SDK today, which will act as the blueprint for anything that is built for the platform. In other words, applications built for Java, Android, Symbian, the iPhone, or any other smartphone platform won’t be compatible. Welcome Samsung to the world of more fragmentation.
Welcome to the exciting world of the walled garden.
Nov 11 2009
“The company wants to be a total provider like Apple, with its own platform and app store… Being a total provider is every company’s dream right now.”
— Greg Noh, analyst at HMC Securities in Seoul
Samsung Offers Software Platform - WSJ.com
Why Microsoft has XBox and Zune, why Google has cloud everything and why Apple is winning.
Oct 28 2009
Amazing story of Motorola’s 2009 Q4 offerings from a year ago. How’d they get so lucky with Verizon?
Moto’s CEO is one of the highest paid CEOs anywhere, if he makes Droid work, he’ll have earned it.
Sep 23 2009
Oh benevolent bureaucracy, you can help create domestic saturation of markets and build world handset manufacturers but then you fail to make any decent smartphone to take on the world.
The iPhone entering Korea after 190 countries have already approved it is an embarassing test of regulatory failure. Opening markets will undoubtedly help but it will take time for Samsung and LG to catchup.
