McGuire’s Law

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• How To Make Money From iPhone Games
• T-Mobile: Android Market needs more filters
• So Just what are you developing for the App Store?
• App Stores: Boon, Bane or Both for Mobile Handset Platforms?
• Skype picks a fight with carriers over apps
• eBuddy surpasses 10M downloads on GetJar
• Mobile Applications Stores: A Virtual ‘Farmer’s Market‘
• Apple Making Developers Pay Up For Any Refunded iPhone Apps?
• eBook Market gets serious
• iPhone app developers gripe about payment delays and dismal customer service

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• Mobile TV Backers Figuring Out That People Don’t Want To Pay For It
• Apple Lifts Ban on Nav; Let the Commodity Madness Begin
• Tony Jebara’s Keynote Transcript
• Orange UrbanMobs
• Nokia to Shut Down Mosh
• Mobile Commerce: A Loyalty Lever?
• Mobile Advertising Myths #1
• Mobile Banking is Emerging as a New Revenue Stream for Mobile Operators
• Free-to-air mobile TV services hold the key to the consumer adoption
• Nokia making payments mobile

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• How long can operators ignore VoIP?
• Wireless carriers: Is it time to launch a premium brand?
• As Mobile Data Grows, People Want Wireless Carriers To Buzz Off
• The Gap in Call Quality Performance among US Mobile Networks Narrows
• Business Week article: Prepaid Wireless Takes Off
• Are postpaid subs switching to prepaid?
• Telefoncia and Vodafone share European network
• Like Facebook or Google, Wireless Carriers Need to Scale
• Will mobile carriers charge different rates for data during peak / off-peak times?
• Sprint Extends 4G Leadership by Announcing Next U.S. Markets to Experience Sprint 4G

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• Fox Soccer Channel kicks off mobile text alerts
• Wireless Technology Revolutionizing the Health Industry
• Deutsche Bank to Roll Out Mobile Payments to 80 Countries
• Businessmen Want Mobile Video on the Move
• Live Railway Service Information on the iPhone
• Buy me a Ticket dear BlackBerry
• Simple engagement campaign with frozen food brand Birds Eye via SMS
• Using Mobile Phones as “Teachers” in The Philippines
• Dutch Railways launches mobile context-aware travel application
• Texting trash cans hit the streets
• Medical shoe phone for patient tracking

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• What’s your carrier strategy? Go Global or Go Small?
• U.S. now accounts for 29% of mobile web browsing
• Three-Quarters of All Electronic Messages are Sent Via Mobile Phones
• Cell-Only Households Growing At The Expense Of Landlines
• Oklahoma, Utah lead going cell-only; Calif, NY lag
• The Three Dimensions across which customers pay: ‘Customer Pay-Space’ or a 2 State System?
• Four ways vendors hinder enterprise mobility
• Downturn or Not, Mobile Broadband Is Growing Fast
• Why the Mobile Industry needs to keep an eye on Cable’s Canoe Ventures
• Growth in Number of Mobile Workers Driving Demand for Enterprise Mobile Solutions

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• Will iPhone Users Defect to Palm’s Pre?
• Android to surpass Apple by 2012
• Smartphones account for 23% of all handsets sold in US
• Next-generation consumer products mobilized with 3G capability
• Tweet-a-watt crowned winner of Greener Gadgets 2009 design competition
• Jeff Bezos on The State of Kindle
• Winners and Loser in the Smartphone Market: Q4 2008
• Wireless embedded in every device
• When It Comes To Today’s Cell Phones, The Hardware Is The Easy Part
• Americans Want To Customize Their Phones, But Don’t Want To Pay Extra For It

The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:

• Cortex-M0
• Lincroft
• Universal femtocell
• Fingertouch
• VoLGA
• Atom Z5xx
• Self-assembling nanoscale technology
• Microwave photonics
• Fast charging lithium ion batteries
• OMAP-4

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• Zer01 offering unlimited Data and Voice
• At SXSW, Location Awareness Is The New Black
• Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones
• GrandCentral Reborn as Google Voice, a Suite of VoIP Services
• Mobile Payments Proliferation
• Dockers shakes up mobile ad space with motion-sensitive iPhone plugs
• Loopt on Solving the Pricing Problem for Location Based Services
• Inevitability, meet mobile TV: FLO Forum boss talks free content
• Advanced Mobile Services Attract “Media Techies” and Others
• Barcodes step into the light
• 3 Reasons Why Mobile Browsing Doubled Last Year

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• Telstra’s Planned App Store Is a Shift for Carriers
• LiMo - The Tortoise picks up Momentum
• Apps stores and mobile broadband: the need for smarter pipes dominates the MWC
• Google blocks unlocked G1s from downloading for-pay applications, upsets developers
• Palm Pre Losing Mojo Each Day the SDK is Held Close
• BlackBerry App World sets $2.99 minimum price
• Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store
• iPhone apps are the real money-maker, analyst says
• App Stores - from exciting to boring (in just one week)
• What matters most- operating systems or applications?
• New apps are changing how people use cell phones
• Symbian remains most dominant mobile OS in the world
• Options on how the Telco industry can work with the App Development Industry
• Two thirds of mobile game execs expect sales growth in ‘09
• Will $99 Keep the Microsoft App Store Fartless?
• Want To Create A Simple App To Tell You Where Someone Is Calling From? You Can’t, It’s Patented
• Microsoft unveils Windows Marketplace fees, splits, hopes, and dreams
• Google blocks Infinite SMS app

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• Mobile Data Traffic to Outstrip Revenues 100-Fold by 2015
• U.S. carriers to closely monitor GSMA’s plan to give advertisers user behavior info
• Wireless-Phone Companies Fight Rising Churn Rates
• Nokia irks UK carriers with decision to include Skype on N97
• Is a closed deal a done deal? Reports of Alltel death greatly exaggerated
• Why We Need Fat Mobile Pipes
• AT&T says subsidy model good for business
• How long can mobile operators institute data usage caps?
• Boost Mobile’s Matt Carter says the $50 rate plan isn’t causing a price war
• Variable Pricing Coming to Mobile Broadband?
• The battle for the $50 per month customer
• Vodafone: “Smart Cooperation” = Telco 2.0
• Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?