McGuire’s Law

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• Nokia’s Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week
• Europe to Drive Demand for Mobile Tickets
• YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever
• Is 2010 the break-out year for mobile TV?
• Sprint standardizing on RealNetworks’ platform for music delivery
• Facebook mobile usage jumps 600 percent in 2009
• Mobile Money 2.0: strategic lessons from top case studies
• Smartphone market drives 600% growth in mobile web usage
• Stop Cramming the Mobile Web Into the PC Box
• Are We Getting Closer to an All-VoIP Mobile Phone?
• Google: The Mobile Web Could Be Better Than the PC Web
• Mobile VoIP – Approaching the Tipping Point
• BBC launches new mobile apps, slams device fragmentation
• U.S. Mobile Payment Market Expands
• New Audio Ads Target Mobile

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• Smartphone Share — Google Grows While RIM Slows, Palm Reverses
• Majority of smartphones now have touch screens
• Stat Shot: How the iPhone Changed the Handset Market
• PUMA to announce a sports-centric, solar powered cell phone next week
• Samsung details aggressive smartphone plans
• Tracking the latest handset design trends
• I, hotspot
• Samsung unveils new smart phone with own software
• Microsoft replays Zune design for phone comeback
• ZTE Shows First BREW Based Smartphone
• Dispatches from the front line - War reporter checks in from smartphone battle zone
• The Changing Smartphone Landscape
• Smartphone Sales Up 24 Percent, iPhone’s Share Nearly Doubled Last Year (Gartner)
• Top-5 Mobile Phone Vendors Lost Market Share in 2009

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• Mobile phone operators unsure that data will drive growth
• Is usage-based pricing inevitable?
• Traffic management and offload - diverging solutions
• Mobile Industry Dances Toward Consolidation
• Evangelical churches to launch MVNO
• AT&T forcing smartphones (even unlocked ones) onto smartphone data plans?
• Customer loyalty, tolerance and contempt
• Mobile broadband: When is it profitable?
• Orange to Charge for Smartphone Customer Care Services
• Keynote sparks debate on carriers’ role in the world of apps
• Mobile operators embrace app store mania
• Skype deal ensures Verizon won’t become a dumb pipe

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• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Location
• Context is the killer application for mobile
• One quarter of all game developers now creating mobile titles
• The Big Picture “All the Stats” Total View to Mobile Industry, 2010 Edition
• Planet WiMAX
• Broadband “Overshoot”: How Big an Issue?
• Selected finer of details of mobile, taken from Almanac 2010
• Massive Wireless Business Model Shift Is Imminent
• The connected object…a new era for mobility
• Can Qualcomm Compete As Smartphones Become Computers?
• Amazon Is Doing to Publishers What Apple Did to Record Labels
• Study: Embedded wireless market stalled on pricing concerns
• Newspapers up in arms over BBC’s mobile expansion
• Google Leverages Wireless Supply Chain to Reshape Mobile Business
• How Google’s Chief Magician Stole the Show
• Could the Kindle and iPad Kill Quality Content?
• Smartphones Causing Carriers to Rethink Business Models

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• Mobile Apps Beware — Rapidly Accelerating Mobile Touch Web Is Perfect Example of Mobile Cloud Computing
• Mobile web may beat out mobile apps in the long run
• Promiscuous Developers Want Downloads Not Dollars
• Cross-platform apps are the only way forward
• Users ignoring carriers in search for mobile apps
• Sprint adds GetJar’s free mobile apps catalog
• Handmark’s Reddick on the future of applications, app stores and the smartphone battlefield
• Five Reasons Not To Get Swept Up In App Madness
• MNOs Can Change the Game With Web-based Apps
• Canadian Operators Start Trials of Single API for 3rd-Party Developers
• Appcelerator: Over 90% of Developers are “Very Interested” in Building Tablet Apps
• Why the WAC Is Whack
• The App Developer’s Guide to Choosing a Mobile Platform

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• Meet a Presenter’s Nightmare (or Friend): The Backchannel
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) 2.0: mHealth Opportunities
• An ‘army of fanatics’ yes Real Madrid has that and uses mobile to monetize
• Healthy baby campaign uses texts to reach mothers
• Government Payments Through Cell Phones Could Kick-Start Financial Services for the Poor
• WFP, Vodafone Project Distributes Food Vouchers by Text Message in Burkina Faso
• iPhones keeping ski resorts honest on snow reports
• Target Offers Mobile Gift Cards
• Google working on voice translator phone, redefining synergy
• Broadcom Bets on New Bluetooth Tech for Mobile Health
• Anywhere school buses

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:

• Optical wireless broadband
• Energy harvesting rubber sheets
• Pressure sensitive touchscreens
• Beamforming
• 802.16m
• WiLink 7.0
• Dalvik Turbo
• QTC sensors
• BCM21553
• SDR

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• Why Verizon Did It
• Jajah + Telefonica
• Why Carriers Should Care About Customer Care
• Econ 101 For Operators
• Verizon Wireless-AT&T ‘Price War’ May Boost Revenues
• Roaming Agreements Could Expand the Wi-Fi Renaissance
• Time Warner open to idea of WiMAX voice service
• What the iPad Tells Us About Mobile Broadband Pricing
• Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked
• Econ 102 for Operators

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• Most Americans say mobile tech is a change for the better
• Enterprise Communications Forever Changed by Mobility and IP
• Kids’ Cell Phone Ownership Has Dramatically Increased in Past Five Years
• MagicJack femtocell sure to face legal battle royale
• Major milestone has passed, over half of internet access is now from mobile (says Nokia)
• Mobility Matters
• In A World Of Bottom Up Technology, Should IT Support Your iPhone?
• So what are the capacity hogs? And where are the solutions?
• Wi-Fi’s likely impact on 3G/4G services and operators
• Awash in Cash
• As Devices Pull More Data, Patience May Be Required
• Wi-Fi offload, not Femtocells
• Augmented Reality Apps Will Change the Way We See the World

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• Android: The Wild West of the Smartphone Space?
• The Purpose-Driven Device
• The Rise of Connected Devices
• How Microsoft Can Get Back in the Mobile Game
• Why Google will win the smartphone race: Products in the pipeline
• Windows Mobile Is Dead! Long Live Windows Mobile!
• Should Google Kill the Nexus One?
• Are two types of smartphones necessary?
• Google shoots itself in the foot in mobile
• Microsoft to introduce Zune Phone with Windows Mobile 7 at MWC