Big Bell Dogma: July 2009
As we work to build mobility into every product, service, and process, our greatest inhibitor is the mindset represented by those who defend the tethering of products and processes to specific places. This mindset is fueled by the investments that have been made that establish power in the companies, departments, and individuals that stand in the way of mobilizing our lives and our businesses. These investments are not always in hard assets, but often are investments of time and experience to establish intellectual and relational assets. We should expect our assault on these ways to be defended to the death. Here are recent examples:
- IRS may tax work cell phones as a ‘fringe benefit’
- When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong
- ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings
- Amazon policy change torpedoes iPhone app
- AT&T Will Scare You Into Keeping Your Landline
- Department of Justice casually looking into abuses of power by big carriers?
- DOJ Wants to Probe Telcos? It Should Take a Number
- Verizon: Please Stop Disabling GPS in Smartphones on Your Network
- The Problems Of A Legacy Business: Verizon’s Union Freaks Out That Verizon Wants To Look Forward
- Verizon to Open App Store- Nobody Wins
- Ofcom goes nuts - will they regulate visible light next?
- Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native App? Because Apple Said So.
- Leap blasts Verizon’s proposal on roaming agreements
- Rural carriers scoff at Verizon’s exclusivity compromise
- FCC investigating rejection of Google Voice apps from iPhone store
- Fact Checking? UK Paper Simply Takes The Word Of Guy Who Claims WiFi Allergy