McGuire’s Law

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• How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard
• Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not)
• How to do Clever Mobile Advertising in 2010? Don’t copy web!
• If the desktop is dying, mobile sync is king
• Nuance Killing SpinVox’s D2C Service
• Google: One in three mobile searches has local intent
• Fox Mobile Offers Hulu-like Subscription Service for Smartphones
• Fox Mobile premieres Bitbop on-demand mobile video service
• Mobile Banking Overtakes Telephone Banking in the UK and USA
• Bitbop hands-on: is this the Hulu of mobile?

From last Friday’s Dilbert:

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• What is the future of prepaid unlimited?
• Operators must act to escape from the low-profit spiral
• Mobile Carriers’ Growth to Come from Existing Customer Base
• The new world of the wireless operator
• Mobile’s Data Usage & Revenues Disconnect
• Clearwire: Mobile WiMAX subs eating 7 GB per month
• The Challenge for Network Operators in Mobile Web 2.0
• How Mobile Network Operators Must Evolve as Data Ramps Up
• AT&T says Verizon’s first LTE phone is ‘going to be a fat brick’
• Abundant spectrum driving Clearwire’s mobile broadband strategy
• Sprint Nextel expands mobile phone program for low-income households
• Sprint’s Hesse: Mobile WiMAX ushering in a revolution (I couldn’t have said it better myself )
• Deutsche Telekom CEO tackles ‘dumb pipe’ worries

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.)

• Android Equals iPhone in Smartphone Loyalty: 90% Won’t Change Brand
• Qualcomm’s multi-fold mobile device is the future we keep waiting for
• Lower Prices Driving Sales of Smartphones
• Google’s Multi-Hundred Million and Multi-Billion Dollar Wireless Problems
• Palm: this is your survival guide
• Who Will Pick Up Palm?
• Nokia’s Design by Community makes smartphone concepting a multiplayer game, with limits
• HTC EVO 4G is Sprint’s Android-powered knight in superphone armor
• Top 5 Superphones to Watch
• Samsung outlines smartphone strategy with Galaxy S, ‘Smart Life’

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.)

• Cell Phones Could Change the Face of Real Estate
• Target launches first scannable mobile coupon program, frugalistas going wild
• Sprint and Walsh Wireless Launch M2M Device to Drive Usage-Based Insurance for Vehicles
• Mobile system helps caregivers follow childcare protocols in rural Tanzania
• Helping Universities Go Green with Wireless and Unified Communications Technology
• New Smartphone Apps Let Politicians Call for Cash
• Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless
• 8 Elite Mobile Methods to Watch March Madness
• House Hunting on Handsets — Zillow Now Occupies Android
• Blackboard and Sprint Team Up to Bring Mobile Learning to Students at No Additional Cost to Schools

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.)

• Google CEO: Mobile Computing Reshaping Internet
• Lenovo sees mobile as a money maker
• Clearwire’s Big Bet on Our Broadband Addiction
• NBC’s Wurtzel Suggests Mobile Is On TV’s Radar More Than Web
• Smartphone users constantly connected
• Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for ‘70 to 80 percent’ of sales
• Mobile Services Impacting All Spheres of Nigerian Life
• Docs, it’s time to embrace online chat and texting with patients
• Wireless Technologies Crucial to Nearly Two-Thirds of Small Business Owners
• FCC’s Broadband Plan: Mobile Broadband Will Save Us!

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.)

• Scribd Unveils Mobile Strategy for Online Document Viewing
• Facebook and Twitter Access via Mobile Browser Grows by Triple-Digits
• Mobile Ticketing Reports Surge in Mobile Tickets for Airlines
• 26 pct of Americans get news via phone
• Four in Ten Consumers Watch Broadband/Mobile TV at Least Once Monthly
• Curling on Mobiles: The Winter Olympics By the Numbers
• Carriers Are Playing the Field When It Comes to Search
• More on Geofencing and Location-Based Messaging
• Use of Social Media via Mobile Sees Considerable Gains in Past Three Months
• More than a third of users want mobile coupons
• Vodafone’s Wayfinder is first victim of free smartphone navigation services
• Are Mobile Coupons Finally Ready for Prime Time?

Raleigh, North Carolina has just been named “America’s Most Wired City” by Forbes magazine. Ironically, it’s Raleigh’s wireless chops that earned it this title!

“The city’s downtown is covered by a wi-fi network that is free to users. Operator Sprint Nextel ( S - news - people ) recently launched its “4G” next-generation mobile broadband in Raleigh and the rest of the ‘Triangle’–months before larger cities like Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., will get the service.”

Having started my telecom career working in Research Triangle Park, and enjoying the benefits of being surrounded by North Carolina State University (Raleigh), Duke University (Durham), and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), I can appreciate the forward thinking-ness of the Triangle and why it’s been a great place for Sprint’s 4G service.

In fact, the Triangle was the first place we ever trialed “4G” services - way back in 2004, Nextel launched trials of a new service using technology from Flarion. What we learned there was instrumental to the definition of the services we later launched as Sprint 4G.

Way to go Raleigh! Maybe next year you can win the real prize - being named by Forbes America’s Most Wireless City!

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• Garmin admits nuvifone a ‘disappointment’
• Smartphones are adjuncts to PCs, not replacements
• Editorial: the American phone subsidy model is a RAZR way of thinking in an iPhone world
• More WiMAX Products from Cellular Modem Vendors are a Sign of WiMAX Growth to Come
• Sony Developing PlayStation Branded Smartphone
• Over Half of Smartphone Users Are Disappointed With Handset and Apps
• AT&T Introduces the First…Yahoo Phone
• Smartphones are booming, but is there room for all the players?
• IBM to Collaborate With Universities to Make Mobile Devices More Accessible
• A Brief History of Smartphones
• Sony Takes a Unique Approach to Challenging the iPhone
• Palm Inc. teeters in crowded smart phone market

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.)

• App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)
• Developers, Developers, Developers
• OneAPI - Canadian Operators Show Us How To Do It!
• App Store Consolidation - PocketGear Buys Handango
• App Stores Stealing Brand Loyalty from Handset Manufacturers
• Mobile apps - will the fickle hand of fashion swing against them?
• In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It.
• WAC, Meego, eStore: Three Big Moves in Mobile Platform Consolidation
• Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform?
• Google Apps Marketplace opens for business, for business