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January 2011

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Why Does SMS Continue to Grow? Personal Communications, Social Networking and M2M

January 24, 2011

Many consumers view SMS as an essential function of their phone.  From a service provider perspective though, it is one of the more highly utilized and profitable value added services, with an estimated over 6 trillion SMS’s sent in 2010.  What’s going on with this seemingly basic function?

Using the Mobile Phone Navigator App

January 18, 2011

While I have the AT&T navigator app on my Blackberry and have had it for some time, I never used it until, amazingly enough, I needed it twice in the same week this past December.  I always just either printed out directions from Mapquest or took my old Garmin with me when I needed this kind of thing.  Well, in December I needed it since I didn’t have either of them since, well, I knew where I was going!

Would I Use an iPad on a Business Trip?

January 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the use of iPhones in the enterprise and mentioned iPads will runneth over the enterprise, but many will end up not being used.   In fact, if CES from last week is any indication, tablets of all sorts will descend upon us like locusts (and depending on your point of view, it could be a plague).

What did I mean, though, when I said that many iPads would end up not being fully utilized? 

Smartphone - Shop and Pay!

January 4, 2011

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about people using their smartphones in ways I’ve never seen before during a key shopping trip, namely comparison shopping by taking pictures of barcodes.  And since I witnessed that on more than one occasion, I figured this must be taking off.  So I did some research yesterday figuring that since the holidays are over, some articles and/or research would have been written on this. 

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