The last three years have been pretty amazing. Thanks to Apple's iPhone we finally got to see what its like to have "full" access to the Internet. The iPhone shifted everyone's strategies, and where LTE looked like it would...
Rich Tehrani was sitting with his wife and kids and his IPad at the lunch table.The discussion turned to why the IPad was acceptable at the lunch table while a laptop would not be.Here at Mobilize I am hearing the...
At Mobile World Congress Vittiorio Colao the CEO of Vodafone made mention of the fact that regardless of what smart phone your were using over 80% of the time was using Google. This pointed to the latest love hate the...
Google and Apple are vying for your attention today. If you are a carrier, your bed fellows are not staying the night! Google with the Nexus One announcement that is all about the Android operating system and not a carrier....
The smartphone marketplace is heating up and its not just because Apple has the iTablet on the way. The carriers are working hard to find the right device to catch the growing market, but I am not sure that anyone...
It may be that ATT is good as it gets with the iPhone.I have already commented on the fact that Telefonica is not having the same dramatic impact with the iPhone as ATT (Verizon [ NYSE: VZ] announced a 30%...
It will be interesting to see what happens next, now that the Korean Communications Commission has okayed the importing of iPhones and Blackberries. Korean has a very saturated market, so I would not expect a fast migration. However I would...
As my regular readers know, I am Apple user but not and Apple fan.As so many of my friends around me are using the iPhone and telling me how cool it is, while never making a call with it. I...
There was a little cold-water type reality splashed on the audience at the morning panels here Thursday at the 4GWE conference, specifically around the notion of 4G network and device testing -- a relatively non-sexy topic that may nevertheless slow down...
Some good friends and I keep a dialogue going about the industry. We don't make public our views, so as to protect the people from being exposed with their views versus their consulting / job opportunities.A thread that I thought...
Of course, I would like to talk about Apple's FCC letter regarding GoogleVoice, but Steve Jobs is in the news with the iTablet. So the distraction has worked. The iTablet is probably not a netbook strategy, but a MAC that supporting...
Lately, I am feeling right at home. Regulatory is rearing its head and as some one no longer trying to navigate it, I can just sit back and watch the events.Nothing is more fun to look at then the tenor...
Andy Abramson sent me a note about the Truphone announcement regarding an iPhone bug. It is not that Apple targeted Truphone its just a bug. Here is the post,Apple iPhone Bug Isn't Truphone's Problem I'm posting is a Public Service...
As a bell head the concept of state was indoctrinated into me. I am not sure if this was through Osmosis, the continue using of the Bell System Practice as a head rest, or the "My Network" mentality.Today the peers...
Last week while Verizon Wireless was trying to draw the attention of the developer community, the press was all a buzz about their relationship with Apple.The problem is two fold. The first is that ATT is the only one allowed...
While the California Titans get into a contest of wills, ATT's congressional nemesis is looking to add to the battle.I have to say it's pretty amazing to me what Congress focuses on, but the letters from the FCC inquiring about...
The Wall Street Journal was pretty hard on Sprint as was the Kahuna on CNBC. However the reality is the losses to the iPhone are proportionately less than Verizon has suffered. It may be for a few reasons. First of...
The Wall Street Journal has it right in pointing out that Ericsson has positioned itself well in the US Market. The acquistion of the Nortel assets, its selection by Verizon as an LTE supplier and its deal with managing Sprint's...
It's official Apple has proven themselves to be just one more brick in the walled garden.Apple provided their equivalent of the Carterphone decision was needed when they blocked the PalmPre from using Itunes. In other words, it was okay to...
I hope you are a subscriber...Turns out I have taken a contrarian view from our friend's at Gigaom. The second paragraph in particular is mind boggling to me.The App Store is just the latest game changer to come out of...
Finally some sense out of someone about the App Store.Today's Journal calls Malcolm Gladwell out on his favorable view of the ability to charge for content thanks to the app store. Shaw Wu from Kaufman Brothers points out that at...
I walked over to Best Buy with Rich Tehrani, as a result of the 99 cent promo for a Compaq netbook with Sprint service. Counting the floor model which had to be initialized while we talked, they had 2 in...