Category Archives: mobile

Pipe, Platform, Application

Some great ideas for operators to better utilize (and monetize) their assets: expose users’ location data, expose their social graph, building micro-payment systems that make sense, become verified ID providers. Just reading the article will set your head abuzz. These … Continue reading

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Phone manufacturers != manufacturers of phones

Podcasts have changed my commute since I got the iPhone. I’ve discovered NPR’s This American Life and Fresh Air, BBC’s Excess Baggage and Click, Gruber’s and Dan Benjamin’s The Talk Show and the NYT’s Times Talks and Bits. All of … Continue reading

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Curated computing: jargon (sometimes) is a good thing

Curated Computing: Fancy cynical analyst term. Here is Forrester Research declaring a new era (‘Post-iPad’, no less). A consumer can do anything with a Windows PC or Mac… the iPad operates very differently. [It] works more like a jukebox than … Continue reading

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Bigger pie, more slices

For the longest time, the only two entities that made money from a mobile phone were the carrier and the handset manufacturer. Open and shut [1]. No longer. Not only are more mobile phones being sold now than ever before, … Continue reading

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Building a large Internet business in India (in the incumbents' face)

When it comes to the Internet in India, the low-hanging fruit has beeen picked, across sectors. Think Travel. Books. Jobs. Dating. Electronics. Money. In his post today, Rajesh Jain lists a few more: Search (dominated by Google), News (Rediff, NDTV, … Continue reading

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Why the Kindle can save the U.S. newspaper industry

The Silicon Alley Insider recently calculated that the New York Times could actually cut down its costs in half by gifting all its subscribers a free Kindle. The immediate conclusion seems to be that the Kindle is the end to … Continue reading

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The real problem behind Microsoft's layoffs

Microsoft will lay off 5000 staff over the next 18 months. This is partly due to an 8% decline in client revenue attributed to “continued shift to lower priced netbooks”. Netbook sales have been robust. Buyers prefer Windows XP over … Continue reading

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Digital Cameras – Losing Focus? (1 of 2)

At an engagement ceremony I attended this October, every one of the guests was a photographer, clicking away at this, that or the other all the time. Not only have you seen this; over the past couple of years you’ve … Continue reading

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Opera Mini and S60 Browser – both not quite there yet

On my N82: spent some time with Opera Mini after a while – had been using Nokia’s built-in S60 Browser exclusively over  the past few months. Here’s a list of peeves and loves about each browser.   Opera Mini Good … Continue reading

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Can Nokia take on Blackberry in the Enterprise?

Last week Nokia announced that its Mail for Exchange application would now be available for any Nokia phone that ran the Series60 3rd Edition platform. Immediately, about 80 million users across forty-three S60v3 phones can now integrate into a Microsoft … Continue reading

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