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Mobility

The future of the mobile won’t be defined by the majority

September 8, 2011

Today, looking for inspiration I was re-reading a proposal I’d written in early 2009 for a research project  looking to the 2012 future for mobility. It didn’t eventuate at the time. The lines below were part of the introduction to it. It remains salient today and frankly I’d propose a similar research design today (not [...]

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The Serval Project – MESH ROUTING

June 27, 2011

Paul of The Serval Project – Let individuals be their own telcos…. If we assume zero infrastructure.. then the phones have to solve the communications infrastructure problems! Example mesh network. What you must do… is make use of the infrastructure that is around you. ISM915 up to a kilometer in urban areas. 10 to 40 [...]

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Sensors and Frames by the end of the decade.

June 27, 2011

Szymon Slupik will talk about the mobile phone  in 2020. 1973 the original… and then 2007 the iPhone and a moment of proliferation. Looking forward am expecting internet glasses to replace the role of the smartphone. In the past the phone was just a phone. Today it is no longer a phone. Voice is now [...]

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Ecomm Intro – First Speaker Richard Nespola

June 27, 2011

I think I’ve attended every eComm that’s been held since Lee Dryburgh began them. Lee’s opening and mentioning the select group that is here. It’s true… and probably the only place in the world you can get the information that will be shared over the next few days.  Let’s hope it continues. I’ll try and [...]

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Let’s Tango – VoIP’s Emerging Mobile Model

October 14, 2010
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So is Tango better than Apple’s FaceTime? On the face of it (haha) – today it is. Longer term the question is. Can Tango beat Apple Facetime? Then there’s the usual questions about how will Tango make money. Where’s Tango positioned vs the VoIP gorilla – Skype? etc. So what is Tango? Tango is a [...]

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iPod Touch4 and #FaceTime – This Disruption is Going to Hurt Google.

September 15, 2010

Over the weekend  Andy Abramson received his new iPod Touch 4 in the mail. Apple’s New iPod touch Part One-VoIP on the iPod – VoIP Watch. What he’s yet to reveal is his experience with FaceTime – Apple’s new video call solution which I’ve written a series of posts on. We had our FaceTime call [...]

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AT&T Fails A Social Media Marketing Test – The Terry Stenzel Letter Response

September 8, 2010

If you were the VP and GM of AT&T what sort of letter would you send your customers and why? As an ex-VP Marketing I would not have sent out the letter many received from Terry Stenzel at AT&T today. For me it makes a number of mistakes serving to highlight the gap between old [...]

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Is an iPhone Nano Good Strategy for Apple? – @tomiahonen believes so.

August 5, 2010
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Tomi Ahonen outlines his strategic reasons why Apple should launch an iPhoneNano. It’s a rather loNg post I point you to, a little too much history and some stories you may or may not agree with. Still it is a thoughtful piece and after sharing his definition for the iPhoneNano I’ll share a few of [...]

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FaceTime – Call it SIP 2.0?

August 2, 2010
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This is a second in a series of FaceTime posts I wrote privately a month ago. I referenced them here. and asked yesterday “FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again?”. I also posted on the “Scramble” this creates. FaceTime – What It Really Means? Apple launched FaceTime video calls with the iPhone4. Most of [...]

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FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again?

August 1, 2010

This is one of three posts I wrote on FaceTime just after purchasing my iPhone4 and mentioned  here. There is a hidden trojan horse story behind FaceTime – Apple’s new video calling solution. This post highlights why it is more than just video and suggests reasons other handset manufacturers should take a closer look. Then [...]

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Our National Parks and Cell Phone Coverage is a National Disgrace!!!

July 31, 2010
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National Parks are some of America’s most important assets. Some are quite off the beaten track… others are more accessible. All are spectacular in their own way. All of them seem to SUCK for cell phone coverage. What was your experience this summer? Did you just put up with it too? In the last few [...]

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iMoto – Apple iPhone Intercom system for Bikers – Excellent!

June 30, 2010
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Why do apps fail? Mostly due to poor marketing. Here’s an absolutely fantastic app that I’m sure almost no-one has heard of. It’s also destined to be like a voice recorder or alarm clock – just part of the apps that come from the manufacturer with the handset. iMoto is a bluetooth based intercom system [...]

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Skype’s Face Slap – FaceTime comes with Apple iPhone 4.0

June 7, 2010
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So FaceTime will be Apple’s answer to Skype Video, the Jetson’s or StarTrek communicators. Apple just released the fourth generation iPhone details. Few surprises from my perspective. I liked the way elements are positioned with a technical argument underpinning them. Eg the pixels on the camera or the screen construction. Yes I want one, and [...]

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Palm means HP takes control of their destiny. For Windows, it’s another blow

May 6, 2010
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I feel HP buying Palm was a gutsy strategic move. Will it work… only time will tell. They certainly have time working against them. I wrote a post below commenting on why this leap of faith was necessary. It’s inferred. Tomi T Ahonen set this up with a question: “Will two years from now there be [...]

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#ARConf and #Ecomm – Surprisingly Interrelated

May 5, 2010
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Finally I’m getting to my eComm posts and notes. On the third day, AR or Augmented Reality came to eComm America2010 in the form of ARConf.  I know many of the telecom crowd didn’t stick around for day three and I feel they missed out big time. Almost 12 hours long, Lee Dryburgh and team pulled together a [...]

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