I went to my local T-Mobile store to check out the G1 over the weekend. The G1 is a nice device with what appears to be great software, but overall I wasn’t that impressed from my 5 minutes with it. Here’s why: – The G1 is chunky. It’s fairly thick, and it’s a bit bulky [...]
Archive | October, 2008
Reminder — Win Free Under The Radar Tickets
Just a reminder about our earlier offer of a couple of free passes to the Under the Radar Mobility event in Mountain View on November 12. The organizers are looking for input on a panel in which execs from major US carriers and other big players in mobile will get grilled with your questions. To [...]
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Apologies for the Slow Posting
Just a quick note to say sorry from my end about the slow posting rate of late. My main problem has been lots of travel in the last month and I’m afraid Blogging and exercise are the first two things that get jettisoned from my routine. First I had a little tour of South America [...]
Show Us The Money
If you’ve been living under a stone recently, you may not have noticed that we’re in the midst of a financial crisis. A bank seems to go bust every day, doom abounds and it’s probably the worst time to try to raise capital via VCs since the dawn of history. It’s particularly gratifying then to [...]
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Mobile Event Madness Part 3 — Under The Radar, November 12, Silicon Valley
The final event to tell you about today is the Under the Radar Mobility conference in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, on November 12. UTR picks a number of exciting startups, who pitch their products to a panel of judges and 400 attendees. They’ve announced the first batch of presenting companies, with more to follow, and [...]
Mobile Event Madness Part 2 — Open Mobile Summit In SF, Nov. 19-20
Another event in San Francisco in November, this one a two-day affair on the 19th and 20th, called The Open Mobile Summit. As you might have guessed from the name, it’s focused on the growing interest in “open” mobile networks. The organizers have lined up a list of high-ranking speakers from the likes of Nokia, [...]
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Event Madness Part 1 — Mobile 2.0 in SF, November 3
I’ve got several events to fill you in on today. The first is Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco on November 3. It’s organized by a number of MH pals, like Dan Appelquist, Rudy De Waele, Mike Rowehl and Peter Vesterbacka, and they’ve put together another great slate of speakers and presentations for the event, to [...]
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Verizon Wireless Doing Its Best To Strangle SMS Content
Verizon Wireless has put the word out that it’s going to start charging 3 cents for every mobile-terminated text message that goes across its network starting November 1, on top of the existing fees it already charges. That “poof!” sound you just heard was the SMS content and marketing business in the US vanishing in [...]
Great Mobile Marketing Apps
There’s a myth in the mobile industry that people don’t download applications. And yet, it’s patently not true as there are just too many examples of applications being downloaded in huge numbers. So it’s time we revised this tired truism. Buckley’s Law #31 says: Citizens will download applications, providing it’s very clear what the application [...]
‘Tomato Plus’ Launches in Croatia
One of the most interesting new business models to be announced at the MMA Forum this week was OutThere Media‘s Tomato Plus, launched in conjunction with mobile operator, Vip Croatia. OutThere is run by my pals Alexandra Deutsch and Kerstin Trikalitis and it’s great to see women leading the way in mobile. The core of [...]
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