Business Models: November 2007
As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):
- Carphone Warehouse takes the big leap from retailer to postpaid MVNO
- Garmin’s Tele Atlas Acquisition Rationale
- Mobile Portal vs Everything Else
- Suggestion For Mobile Phone Operators: Be Upfront And Honest About Plans
- A lot of enterprise FMC vendors still don’t get it
- MetroPCS Ends Merger Talks With Leap Wireless
- Nokia’s Push Into Content Services Off To Shaky Start
- The Price Is Right For Challenger Mobile’s Phone Platform: Free
- UK Cross-Carrier Cell-ID Location Access (Revisited)
- Mobile Advertising from ?The Experts?
- Palm, RIM and the Red Hot Smartphone market
- Creating mobile buzz: Survival of the fittest
- Pricing: THE “Make or Break” Factor
- What if handset features could shape and evolve with the user? the user side of mobile software management
- A prelude to Mobile 2.0?
- Palm: assimilate with Android or die
- Most Telecom Carriers Will Fail to Transform into Successful Content Enablers
- Voda data ‘pipe’ revenues up… and has content revenue fallen?
- Operator VoIPo3G in Taiwan
- It?s Time for Skype to Spring for Its Own Infrastructure
- Beyond bundling: the future of broadband
- How Amazon Could Kindle Some Interest in E-books
- European Blackberry Users Get Trimble Gear
- Amazon Kindle: Not a home run, but an interesting start
- The Paperless Map Is the Killer App
- Us Independent Operators - All Losing Ground - is Further Consolidation Inevitable?
- Calling All Shoppers
- Open wide
- Alltel goes private, but can it grow?
- Blyk’s Mobile Ad Strategy Seems Working
- RaaS?Reading as a Service and the New Amazon Kindle
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