T-Mobile has begun testing a new landline VoIP offer in a couple of US cities, offering unlimited calls for $10 a month (consumers have to buy a $50 Wi-Fi router that’s got some jacks for the landlines, and of course, supply their own broadband connection). A further sign of how mobile operators are racing to [...]
Archive | February, 2008
Some Good Dev Jobs Going In The UK
If you’re in the UK and looking for mobile development work, there are some openings with a couple of good companies. Trutap is looking for Perl developers, QA techs, Product Managers and sys admins; our pals over at Future Platforms are looking for people with solid Java skills to grow their engineering team. —–>Follow us [...]
The Black Swan Lands at MobHappy
I’ve written a few times about Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book The Black Swan. It’s one of those seminal books that everyone should read, or certainly be aware of the basic ideas that Taleb writes about. It manages to be both scholarly and readable and its implications are far wider than just “business”. A few weeks [...]
Google + Broadband + Anything = WSJ Story
“Stratellites” — giant blimps that could supposedly deliver wireless broadband to land masses the size of Texas — were, for a long time, my favorite BS broadband idea. The obvious pun, that the company behind them was full of hot air, was irresistable. A close second was the concept of putting reusable balloons in the [...]
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Sprint’s Nuclear Option
Following yesterday’s post about three US operators announcing flat-rate voice plans, today brings news of the fallout in the market. Many Wall Street analysts speculate that Sprint will undercut the other operators and could offer unlimited voice calls for as low as $60 per month in a bid to stem its subscriber losses. Such a [...]
links for 2008-02-20
Smugglers and friends help Chinese connect with iPhone РInternational Herald Tribune (tags: iphone china) More Cell Phones Recycled, But Numbers Are Still Low РYahoo! News (tags: recycling) Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Why I Don’t Care About LiMo (tags: limo mobile-linux) UK: Daily Mail announces free text service (tags: [...]
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Things Look Gloomy For Paid Wi-Fi
Last week, Starbucks announced that it was dropping T-Mobile, in favor of AT&T, as the Wi-Fi provider for more than 7,000 of its US locations. Along with the change of vendors comes some pricing changes — AT&T DSL and fiber customers will get free access at Starbucks, while anybody that uses a Starbucks stored-value card [...]
Voice Goes Flat Rate, Too
We talk about flat-rate data plans all the time, but on Tuesday, three US operators announced flat-rate voice plans. For about $100 a month, subs on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile can now get unlimited national calls, and T-Mobile will throw in unlimited SMS and MMS to boot. Sprint had announced trials of a flat-rate plan [...]
Mobile Gaming – Play But Not Download
M:Metrics‘ latest coverage reports mixed news for mobile game companies. The bottom line is that while there are more mobile gamers than ever, the number of people who have actually downloaded a game to their phone is fairly static. Drilling down a little, the percentage of people who had played a mobile game ranged from [...]
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Post MWC Thoughts
Mobile World Congress was a bit of a washout for MobHappy. Carlo already wrote about the shrimp wot did for him. In my case, I had about 10 meetings a day, plus the parties to handle. If that wasn’t enough to prevent blogging, no access to wifi in my apartment hammered the nail into the [...]
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