McGuire’s Law

Standard disclaimer: 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.)

• Congatulations to Bahajob of India, winner of MoMo Peer Awards
• Memphis police purchase and deploy 1,200 REDFLY units
• Cell Phones Are Helping Kids Learn in the Classroom
• New Innovations Show How Mobile Devices Can Be Helpful To Learning… Just Not In Pennsylvania
• Your cellphone as a boarding pass? Some airlines are testing it: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, others incorporate wireless into operations
• Asset, energy management to drive M2M revenues
• WikiPock Will Put An Entire Copy Of Wikipedia In Your Pocket For $10
• Wordds- read magazine articles on your phone
• Business survival down to agility and mobility
• InfoLogix Implements Wireless Multi-Site Medical Communications Solution for Sisters of Mercy Health System
• Remember 007 car controlled by phone? Now Rinspeed has car run on iPhone

Standard disclaimer: 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.)

• ‘Light’ PC Web users are more likely to surf mobile
• The Future of the Mobile Internet
• Rich people embracing the mobile web too
• Jaguar, Land Rover make $1.6M mobile advertising buy: Despite recession, past performance in medium leads to spending increases
• The Mobile Web Is for Fun and the PC Web Is for Everything Else
• For mobile advertising, orchestrate don’t dominate
• Air2Web inks mobile coupon deal with Domino’s Pizza
• 3 billion use SMS, what does that mean?
• Mobile Social Networking is Key to Stay Connected with Consumers
• Bebo: Mobility Driving Massive Page Views
• Google CEO: Mobile search to eclipse PCs in next few years
• Call toktok for easy everything
• Recession to stunt mobile entertainment revenue growth
• Mapping a new, mobile Internet

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• 300M smartphone sales by 2013 (Juniper Research)
• Location-based ads top mobile marketing opportunities (KPMG)
• Global Mobile Market to Exceed US$900 Billion in 2008 (IDATE)
• GPS chipsets to be in 9 of 10 smartphones by 2014 (ABI Research)
• Half a billion mobile TV viewers and subscribers in 2013 (ABI Research)
• 30% of smartphones to be Linux-based by 2013 (IMS Research)
• WiMax to cover 800M in 2010 (WiMax Forum)
• Dual-Mode Cellular/Wi-Fi Handset Shipments to Double from 2008 Through 2010 (ABI Research)
• By 2012, mobile will account for 4% of European advertising spend (Analysys Mason)
• 90% have increased mobile Internet usage in past year (SurfKitchen)
• Mobile Music Revenues to Reach $14.6bn by 2013 (Juniper Research)
• Mobile local search ad revenues to reach $1.3B in 2013 (The Kelsey Group)
• LTE will have 23M subscribers by 2013 (In-Stat)
• $3.1B in mobile advertising revenues in 2013 (The Kelsey Group)
• Mobile banking revenues to top $5.5B in 2013 (Informa Telecoms & Media)
• Shipments of cellular modems to double in 2009 (ABI Research)
• Push-to-Talk penetration to reach 8.5% by 2013 (ABI Research)
• Mobile commerce spending to reach $18.4B within 5 years (ABI Research)
• Nearly 82 million mobile PCs with WiMax will ship in 2013 (In-Stat)
• 330M mobile TV users by 2013 (Juniper Research)
  

Standard disclaimer: 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.)

• Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
• Yet Another Study Shows Txting Is Good For Kids
• The internet, the mobile internet, and nothing but the internet? No. Actually.
• The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Mobility
• Mark Cuban Agrees
• Mobile industry greenlights eco-friendliness
• big screen, small screen, two small screens. Beyond copying the web to mobile
• Is touch phone syndrome a real affliction?
• Worldwide cellphone use hits 60 percent, developing nations largely to thank
• Landlines Are Obsolete in Less Than a Generation
• US Wireless Industry in Recessions

I’ve mentioned before that I was recently interviewed by Kevin Fitchard of Telephony, and that interview was published last weekend. Well Kevin’s been talking to other folks in the industry, and mid-week he put together a piece pulling together my comments with those from AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega. Perhaps surprisingly, our observations weren’t that far apart. We both talked about the connecting together of different devices and content in ways that don’t require a PhD to make work. I guess Mr. de la Vega is pretty on top of things after all.

All of these articles are part of an interactive feature at Telephony on “The Future of Mobile” which will be developing over the next several weeks. It’s worth tuning in to.

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