Business Observations: May 12, 2008 Edition
Update: Since I’ve broken my schedule for weekly posts, I might as well break my schedule for monthly posts. From now on, I’ll be providing updates as I collect a readable collection. Today, it’s all about business observations (previously called “business models” but it was always more than just that…).
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):
- BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone
- The sad (but respectable) demise of Microsoft Spot
- Why mobile social networks are a unique and a powerful medium for advertisers
- Judging When An mPayment Makes Sense
- Mobile TV still Wandering in the Business Model Wilderness
- TomTom profits drop 83% due to price cuts
- Are Personalized Mobile Ads Evil?
- Mobile data can change the game
- High-Accuracy LBS Key to Offsetting Federally Mandated E911 Costs
- The Real Threat to Google
- Exaggerating The Mobile Threat To Google
- Adobe plans to give away Flash for mobile devices
- Adobe frees mobile flash: It’s about time
- Nokia Starts Listening
- Flat-Rate Data Is Good… Free-Rate Is Better
- Dear T-Mobile, The Point Of 3G Is For Data Speeds
- Mobile Internet Extends the Reach of Leading Websites by 13%
- Of TMT industries: America is IT centric; Asia is Entertainment centric; Europe is Telecoms Centric
- IDG’s move to “the third screen”
- It’s the Data, Stupid
- MVNOs Could Drive First Phase of Mobile VoIP Services
- Mobile WiMAX to Level the Asia-Pacific Playing Field
- Poor User Experience Costing Tier 1 Operators $30 Million Per Month
- Nokia decks execs as it counts cost of free music
- Nokia confident free music downloads will profit
- Bonanza or bust for termination fees?
- iPhone non-exclusivity in Italy - it’s all about prepaid
- Telco 2.0 FAQs: A Starting Point for Change
- Intel Wins Piece of Swedish Spectrum
- MeM Cannes: Making money from social networks
- Will iPhone Reignite Interest in Mobile Video?
- Blackberry Fund + iPhone Fund = Quarter Of A Billion
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