Disadvantage of VoIP
It seems that we’re all going mobile marketplace crazy. It’s an old idea of course, but the iPhone app store has reinvigorated our appetite for developing mobile apps and for spreading their mobile goodness. I doubt if there’s a good payback for most small developers, but at least their apps are in a sales funnel [...]
The Cloud, a UK-based operator of Wi-Fi hotspots in Europe, has closed a €15 million round of financing from its current investors (Ferd Venture of Norway and GP Bullhound). The company will use the funds to expand its network of locations across Europe. At present, their hotspots are mostly in the UK, Germany, Sweden and [...]
We’ve pointed to a bunch of stories that involved Apple somewhat arbitrarily forbidding or banning iPhone apps, but now it appears that the courts are getting in on the game as well. A German court has banned a VoIP iPhone app after T-Mobile, the mobile operator who offers the iPhone in Germany, complained. [...]
Professors Tom Hazlett and Vernon Smith have an op ed piece in the Oct. 3rd edition of the Wall Street Journal entitled “Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves.” Apparently advocacy by Google, Microsoft, the New America Foundation and others in favor of unlicensed access to unused broadcast television channels freezes out even better reallocation [...]
There’s a Business Week article making the rounds saying that it’s not Microsoft or Yahoo that’s a real threat to Google, but the rise of the mobile web, which will somehow shrink ad inventory and cause headaches for Google. It’s a nice theory, but it’s hard to square with reality. Increasing use of [...]
I recently had a chat with David Ward from DMNews regarding how telecom companies can engage social media to reach and get in touch with their audiences. To me it’s all about listening to your customers and fans - you, it’s the most valuable resource of feedback you can get.
“The combination of decades of government [...]
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ReadWriteWeb has an article claiming that the way to beat Google is by having a better ad platform (via Matt Asay). It says that “the company that can corner the mobile web ad market is going to be able to go toe-to-toe with Google.” This is getting things completely backwards. Google doesn’t dominate the search [...]
Picking up where we left off…
Market-Based Myths Abound
The argument against Net Neutrality really goes off-track when it gets into the nature of private property, the state of competition, and the effect of regulation. That’s more than one track to be thrown off of, so it’s quite the disaster scene. We may need CSI: [...]
Getting ready for Mobilize - GigaOM’s Next-Generation Mobile Conference in San Francisco on September 18th.
Mobilize is a one-day conference by GigaOM designed to bring to you the future of the broadband mobile web. Using the existing industry as a platform, it will examine emerging ideas and emerging markets.
GigaOM conferences consistently bring the most innovative and [...]