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What 2009 Wireless Market Forecasts Lead Me To Think

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

OK, so I'm reading this thing in RCR, trying to suss out whether I should stay on a career path in the mobile/wireless industry, and, reading past the sway from optimism to skepticism about its future, I come to this sentence: "There is only one Internet and its users do ...

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recent MIT mososos

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

MIT students are developing some really interesting mobile apps, on various platforms. I especially like Mobile Trader (no link?) - there's much potential for enabling microeconomies using its "craigslist/1.5 mile diet" mashup for Symbian. However, CashTrack seems designed for cheap people, though. C'mon? Do we really need to track who ...

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Room Enough For Everyone :: Canada On the Web

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The Tyee is carrying Michael Geist's succinct report about the upcoming hearings at the CRTC over the future of Internet regulation in Canada. Most of these proposals don't make any sense - imposing Canadian content requirements on commercial Canadian websites is dubious at best - how would web content hosts ...

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Mobile Education Dreams

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Via Golden Swamp, via Mobscure comes this: Touching, in a Hollywood sorta way. Don't get me wrong; I'm not cynical about this stuff at all. I embrace social enterprise and believe in it. There are, however, more innovative and useful modalities by which education can be delivered via mobiles than via ...

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Commercial Whiplash: Nokia, carriers, and why Canada is still full of crap mobiles

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

On Nokia's shrinking North American market share: "(Samsung & others) were quick to meet carriers’ customization demands, an area in which Nokia proved reluctant." (http://bit.ly/zuSN). But this is precisely why Nokia ought to be lauded - for its efforts in putting out handsets that straddle grids/networks (3g/wi-fi) and balancing different interaction ...

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