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.)

• Verizon ups the smarm, mocks AT&T
• Subsidized Mobile Internet Devices a Not-so-Nuts Proposition for Carriers?
• Ask What A Carrier Can Do For Your Enterprise Mobility
• Playing with Fire: A new MVNO, Simple Mobile, has entered the arena
• Vodafone Pushing for More Dividends from Verizon Wireless
• T-Mobile Seeking Partners for its US Network
• The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
• Will Carriers Teach Grid Some Smarts?
• Cox Becomes a Carrier with Wireless Launch
• Emerging Devices and Next-Generation M2M to Fuel 3G to 4G Network Transformation
• Virgin Mobile unveils free service for low-income customers
• Carriers Get a Wake-up Call

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.)

• Increasing Use of Mobile Phones to Listen to Radio Broadcasts
• Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million
• Google-Admob: A storm for Weather.com?
• “If the mobile internet turns into the general internet, then shame on us”
• Google CEO Schmidt: Why We Bought AdMob
• Non-Voice Smartphone Usage Up Significantly
• Almost All UK Digital Media Advertising Budgets Now Include Mobile Ads
• Location, Location, Location: SimpleGeo, Twitter, Flook
• So Google bought Admob.. What will they do with it?
• Mobile Internet and E-mail Services Jump in Popularity Among U.S. Consumers

Converging products into a cellphone is one way that mobility is getting built into every product, but it’s not the only way. Every month, I’ll focus on devices that are integrating the power of mobility into products themselves in ways that create new value for the customer. Power up!

• Cars
• Dutch cars
• Photo frames

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:

• AT&T Sues Verizon Over ‘There’s A Map For That’ Ad Campaign
• Verizon doesn’t seem to know what “unlimited” means in Droid contracts
• MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download
• Australian Operator Optus Deliberately Blocking Android Paid Apps

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

• Mobile Coupon Redemption Value to Approach $6bn Globally by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Cellphone Memory Card Revenue to Reach $9 Billion By 2013 (Strategy Analytics)
• Smartphone sales to overtake standard mobile phones by 2012 (Infonetics Research)
• Mobile Coupon Redemption Value to Approach $6bn Globally by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Mobile subscribers to hit 5.9 billion in 2013, driven by China, India, Africa (Infonetics Research)
• Quarter of All Cars to Support Remote Cell Phone Control by 2016 (iSuppli)
• Mobile broadband to overtake fixed-line internet connections in the UK in 2011 (MobileSQUARED)
• One in six users to own NFC-enabled phones by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2009 (Chetan Sharma)
• Wi-Fi Hotspot Market Surge to 1.2 Billion Connections (In-Stat)
• Mobile Handset Accessories Market to Turn Over Nearly $55 Billion This Year (Michael Morgan)
• International mobile money transfer services to exceed $65bn by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• 88 percent of PNDs sold in 2015 will have integrated cellular connectivity (Berg Insight)
• Shipments of Mobile WiMax Chipsets Will Reach 4 Million by Year’s End! (Maravedis)
• International mobile money transfer services to exceed $65bn by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Augmented Reality on the Mobile to Generate $732 million by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Mobile will account for 11.7% of digital ad spend in 2014 (Berg Insight)
• Unified Communications Market to Approach $4.2 Billion in 2014 (ABI Research)