Business Models: February 2008
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):
- Nokia, the OS company
- Is Mobile Music ? Finally ? About To Take Off?
- Location is Back
- Customer data: Goldmine or Quicksand?
- Motorola to Explore Structural and Strategic Realignment of its Businesses to Enhance Shareholder Value
- Sprint Mobile Losses Not a Sign of Recession
- The Spring Melt of Data Tariffs
- UK Operators to Merge Their 3G Video Content Platforms
- Telcos Realizing Markets Don’t Just Grow Forever
- Open access: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
- Are You Ready for Location-Based Advertising?
- The True Cost Of SMS Won’t Matter Much As Mobile Devices Advance
- Getjar: A Mobile App Portal With a Community Twist
- Is mobile really a sure thing for Google?
- Of Trolls and Droids: on cross-species development and the evolution of mobile tools and platforms
- Part 2 Of Trolls and Droids: mobile platforms and ecosystem taxonomies
- British Telecom Drops Fusion Fixed-Mobile Convergence System; Is FMC DOA?
- Luxury Mobile Operator Not So Luxurious Any More
- Why U.S. Telecom Is Losing Juice
- Apple lost $400M from unlocked phones
- US Mobile Operators Can Minimize Impact of Market Saturation
- Microsoft Buys Sidekick Maker, Danger
- Motorola handset unit, its a rough game in mobile
- Mobile as 7th Mass Media, now comparing ad performance vs 6th Media ie the internet
- Microsoft-Yahoo: What does it mean for telcos?
- Who is ahead and who is behind on mobile telecoms
- US Mobile broadband access about to become extremely competitive
- Modu CEO says all Nokia can do is pray
- Nokia and Google Vie for Mobile Web Role
- Using the Mobile Web is a Sticky Proposition
- Pocket battleships v pipes in the air: mobile players vie for $600bn prize
- Focus on Market Needs, Not Technology, Will Drive Fixed-mobile Convergence
- Might femtocells be the personal computers of the wireless industry?
- Post MWC Thoughts
- The Effects of Unbundling Mobile Distribution
- Motorola: Since We’re Not Innovating, We’ll Litigate Over Patents
- Geography: a Killer App
- 3 Cell Carriers in Price Battle
- Consolidation; Convergence; Context; Content; Consumer Experience
- Palm Centro Hits Market Sweet Spot; Making Smartphones Affordable
- WiFi vs 3G and session-based mobile broadband
- Wireless Price Wars Likely To Hurt Landline Carriers
- Qualcomm and the real story behind Mobile World Congress
- How Quaint: T-Mobile USA Gets Into The Landline Business
- More mobile business rethink, dumb pipes and un-innovation?
- Social network - *the* platform for Mobile 2.0?
- We?re in the experience business?
- Mobile TV 2.0 - it?s not DVB-H!
- Implementing Mobile Web 2.0 ? The eleven architectures of Mobile Web 2.0
- Mobile Youth is a myth ..
- Blyk Advertisers, Skeptical On Subscriber Numbers, Just ?Don?t Get It?
- Executive Interview: Trip Hawkins
- Inside the iPhone Gray Market
- Cellular Biz & Its $99 Problem
- Hypertext to Hypercomm
- Is Local faster, fresher, better? Many say Yes?
- Mobile applications, RIP
- Native Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web Apps
- The evolution of MVNOs
- Vodafone and Orange Outline Next Steps of Vision to Give UK Consumers Better Mobile Coverage
- Qualcomm?s Gobi Ambitions
- Airline 2.0: How Telcos can do miles better with minutes
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