Business Models: April 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):
- Texas Instruments: Mobile Market Strategy
- Mobile advertising evolving: user-distributed ads, user-created ads, user-priced ads
- Mobile context firewalls - aggregated mobile membership clubs??
- Between a place and some location
- Music 2.0 the Telco 2.0 way
- After the Click
- Personalization is not a substitute for critical mass - from Zagme to Blyk
- Critical mass (reach) is a prerequisite to personalization
- Datamining our identity, digital footprint, and social context
- Qualcomm Sharpens Its Focus on Services; Roadmap Takes Shape Around Mobile Content Upsell, Dynamic Personalization, Recommendation & Mobile Advertising
- Marketing vs End Users
- The end of Mowser
- The Mobile Web Is Dead. Long Live The Mobile Web.
- Mobile VoIP - nobody’s a pure play
- To Mobile Widget or Not To Mobile Widget
- Ringbacks underline mobile, music biz divide
- How “Comes With Music” makes economic sense
- The Future of Mobile Advertising
- Is it possible to streamline LTE IPR costs?
- Is there much value in push-to-talk offerings from operators other than Sprint Nextel?
- Cellular South will pay customers to switch carriers
- A great wireless leap forward
- Apple: Number of Unlocked Iphones Bought in Usa is “significant”
- Questions Abound In Apple Chip Deal
- NextWave shares soar on plans to sell spectrum holdings
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