The US smartphone landscape in the US has, for the most part, been dominated by two kinds of devices — Treos and BlackBerrys — sold to a narrow group of enterprise users and prosumers. Certainly other devices have been sold to other types of users, but not in very high numbers. But I spoke to [...]
Archive | September, 2006
Pressies by SMS
Being so involved involved in the new new world of wap these days, it’s useful to be jerked back to reality and be reminded that sms is actually far bigger and far more mainstream for the majority of people. So I liked this idea from the Netherlands, that allows you to send your buddies a [...]
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How To Be Taken Seriously
When you’re trying to look like a serious company, and not a patent troll, it’s probably not the best idea to kick off your press release announcing a lawsuit with “Cingular: You Got Served!” I mean, how are we supposed to take seriously a company that thinks advertising-based ringback tones will be worth $12 billion [...]
Clever Musical Marketing From Cingular
Here in Austin this past weekend was the Austin City Limits Music Festival, a 3-day concert featuring 130 bands, and 65,000 or so people sweating their butts off in a field near downtown. Cingular and AT&T are big sponsors of the event, and Cingular had an interesting little promotion, where they let people record their [...]
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Carnival 45 at MobileCrunch
Oliver Starr’s got a thorough writeup of the latest edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists over at MobileCrunch. Check it out for the week’s best blogging about mobile. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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CTIA – Just A Quiet Week In LA…
As I wrote last week, Russell and I were in LA for the fall CTIA show, which they pitch as “Wireless IT and Entertainment”, as opposed to the bigger, more general spring event. I don’t know if it’s this supposedly narrower focus, a lack of interest in traveling to LA, bad timing or what — [...]
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Back Up by Zyb
One of the missing services that aren’t provided by operators and handset manufacturers is good back up of data sitting on the device itself. Anyone who has ever lost a phone or dropped one into some kind of pool of water that seem so¬†irresistible to mobiles will know the pain involved. But even if you [...]
Loopt Launches Mobile Friend Finder
A few months ago, I did a little consulting for Loopt to help them get a toe-hold in Europe, so it’s great to see the product finally come out of stealth mode and get into the market. They launched last night¬†on¬†the¬†youth focused,¬†Boost Mobile network and I’m sure it’ll be a great success. The friend finder [...]
MobHappy @ CTIA
Posting might be light this week as Russell and I are both at the annual fall CTIA confab in Los Angeles this week. But we’ll have plenty to report, whether we get to it this week or next, so be sure to check back. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Carnival 44 at Software Everywhere
David Beers has done a great job of putting together
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