McGuire’s Law

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• Use Your Phone to Lock Up Your Laptop When You Walk Away
• The lawnmower sent me a text: It’s lost
• Sky Map for Android - A Mobile Planetarium
• Startup Designs Shoe-to-Phone Product
• USA Today publishes free Android app
• MasterCard to launch Mobile MoneySend in U.S.
• Google Product Search for Android now with Barcode Scanning
• Parents turn to cell phones as high-tech rattles
• UK Government’s Smart Metering Initiative Calls for Expert M2M Capabilities
• Beyond demographics, how marketing will use mobile to collect better insights
• When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best (From Your Phone)

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• Nokia to launch gigantic app store
• Is There Any Money in Service Exposure for Consumer Services? + Smart Pipes Conference (18-20 May) Update
• Vodafone Shakes up its Own Mobile Apps Platform
• A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where we’re going
• A Consumer iPhone App That Boldly Goes Beyond The $9.99 Threshold
• Google’s mobile jihad: Support the web, but live with the app
• Vodafone Wants to Take a Bite Out of Apple’s App Store
• Vodafone announces mobile app store — but will it be enough?
• Microsoft wants you to share WinMo apps with yourself; others, not so much
• What does the App Store mean to Apple’s bottom line?
• Will Apple’s Low Revenues Slow Down The App Store Phenomenon?
• Lowenstein: A more personalized app store
• Managing the app store fragmentation

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• Eye on the UI: the need to differentiate
• MobiTV demonstrates mixTV mobile DTV service
• Smartphone Deployments Accelerate in USA
• Dell adding WiMAX to laptops, contemplating Android netbook?
• ViewSonic throws caution to the wind, plans own 3G smartphone
• RIM: Smartphones will dominate netbooks
• Wanted: One Mobile Device, for a 24/7 Life
• The One Thing the Palm Pre Must Do To Succeed: Good Web Browsing
• Netbooks Will Drive Future Uptake of Mobile Broadband Services
• Sprint to launch Palm Pre June 6

This past Monday I had the pleasure of speaking at the CIO Bootcamp at Interop. It’s a great event and this was my second time to participate.  I promised the participants that I’d follow-up with a posting summarizing my talk and providing links to some of the case studies I mentioned.  And here it is!

The outline for my talk was taken from a post I wrote at Seamless Enterprise early this year including my predictions for 2009:

• VoIP is dead. Long live AoIP!
• B’bye desk phone
• IP surges ahead
• Economic challenges drive mobile productivity
• Mobile Broadband becomes standard configuration
• Outsourcing explodes
• Unified Communications make real inroads

I talked about the challenges that come from our current economic conditions. Borrowing a phrase that Bruce Barnes had introduced earlier in the morning, I challenged the group to consider how mobility can help them transition from “order takers” to “value creators.” There are two ways to create value - increase revenue (I again borrowed from Bruce in referencing Blue Ocean strategies), and increase productivity/reduce costs.

For revenue growth and really for changing the rules of competition, I referenced a number of examples including:

• Avis Roaming Rapid Returns
• TeleNav
• Montclair State University
• Portable-On-Demand Storage (PODS)
• Sand Springs Police Department

From a cost savings perspective, I talked about how IDC estimates that 2/3 of workers are already mobile some of the time. At Sprint, we’ve translated this into $20M/year in real estate savings. Further, I provided a more detailed case study of our implementation of Unified Communications which is providing an incremental $6-8M per year in telecom cost savings by eliminating hundreds of PBXs and the associated ILEC circuits.

Once again, the Bootcamp was a wonderful event and I was pleased to be a part of it.

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• Mobile VoIP Poses a Huge Challenge for Traditional Mobile Voice Providers
• Mobile Internet revenue rises as ARPU falls
• The iPhone Will Not Destroy the Wireless Business
• U.S. mobile data revenues cross $10 billion milestone
• Clearwire: We’re Not Like the Cellcos
• Carriers – the giant in the room
• Is prepaid becoming a haven for voice-heavy users?
• Can mobile operators revenue-share with handset vendors?
• Are Cellphone Carriers Like Gas Stations?
• Operators must take their IN Open Source

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:

• Hydrogen fuel cells
• OLED
• Fragrant strips
• Integrated GPS
• E-paper
• 1080p decoding processor
• How can phone input be BETTER than that of a laptop
• Sony develops “world’s smallest” HD camera module
• A Third Dimension for Mobile Phones
• oFono

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• Shazam Turns the Corner
• As LBS Subscribers Multiply, Sustainable Business Models Emerging
• Mobile advertising creates profitable revenue streams for telecom operators
• Can you find me now?
• Medialets gets $4 million for mobile ad, analytics service
• Blyk and Vodafone: Possible partners of convenience in mobile ads?
• Finding the future of navigation and LBS
• Western Union: Wisely Advancing Mobile Payments
• Half of U.S. Mobile Phone Users Access Mobile Content on a Weekly Basis
• Itsmy free mobile tagging game gets 1.5 M uses in 8 weeks out of 2.5 M users
• Ovi Share put on pause

I love this tweet from Guy Kawasaki:

@GuyKawasaki The Sprint MIFi gadget is lifechanging. Now my iPhone is fast! And I can Skype from anywhere.

It says so much…

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• Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
• Cell Phones Make Another Move On The Landline
• How Cloud Computing Makes Enterprise Mobility Compelling
• The impact of economy on mobile
• Enterprise Mobility: An Investment That Works Harder, Smarter
• Untethered Life Becoming Reality
• Clearwire’s Barry West Explains the ‘Sandbox’
• U.S. Core Wireless Services Remain Strong; Recession Impacts Expected in ‘09
• Google Knows the Mobile Web Isn’t Only About Phones
• Cell-Phone-Only Homes Top Those with Landlines
• hints for contextually-intelligent design

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.)

• Nokia’s Strange Services Strategy - Lessons from Apple iPhone and RIM
• Mobile Social Contextual Applications & Services
• One in 10 online shoppers makes purchases via mobile
• Thoughts on managed identity services by mobile operators
• The Digital Klondyke, inside the Cyber Eldorado. Why YOU should go mobile now and fast
• Beyond reach, beyond revenues, beyond growth rates - there is more..
• Here a pattern for mobile coupon campaign redemption from Borders Books
• Blyk concept validation, if clone can make big success out of it, then..
• The iPhone effect: will it work its magic on mobile advertising?
• Tomato Plus Seems to be a Winner