McGuire’s Law

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• Symbian Foundation talks about its move to open source
• Creating the unwired world
• Is fear the driving factor behind carriers’ ‘open’ claims?
• When Open Platforms Get Closed: AT&T Cripples Backflip
• A Belated New Year’s Resolution: No Walled Gardens!
• The Pressure to Be Open: How Are Network Operators Coping?
• Operator API Business Models: There’s two of them
• Open vs. Closed: In the Ongoing Battle Over Control, How Much Is Too Much?
• Open vs. Closed: What Does Open Really Mean?
• Carriers Must Open Up to Be Successful With Their Mobile App Market

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• With More Cores, the Cell Phone Closes in on the Computer
• Four key trends for designing better mobile devices
• The impact of Connected Devices
• Reading your Palm. Who should buy the smartphone manufacturer?
• 4G phones: The promise and the peril
• Quick notes on phone market: Android/Google and SonyEricsson quarterly data
• Lenovo Refocuses on Smartphones to Bolster Sales
• Lessons From the Fall of Palm
• Why Nobody Wants Palm — Except Maybe Facebook
• HP: opportunities for webOS ’smartphones, slates, and potentially netbooks’
• Microsoft Responds About HTC Deal– Concerned About Android
• For Nokia, RIM and others, the innovation window is closing fast

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• LBS 2.0: Don’t Just Map It, Manipulate It
• Apple Debuts Both Ad Platform and Ad Network: iAd
• Mobile video calling: Possible, but not necessarily worth it
• Mobile social networking doesn’t really deal with networks very well
• Broadcast Heavyweights Launch Mobile TV Venture
• LG, Harris team for mobile TV spectrum solution
• Do Location Apps Need to Show Users the Money?
• Sprint Makes Mobile TV Easy
• Half of All Time Spent on the Mobile Internet Is on Social Networking Sites
• Multitasking OS Background Location Limitations
• MoneyGram Expands Mobile Money Transfer Service to 40,000 US Agents
• Searching for the Location Gold Mine

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• Cell Phones That Protect Against Deadly Chemicals? Why Not?
• iPhone application to scan for food allergens
• Mobile, wireless technologies help personalize care, change behavior
• A phone in the hand maps bird in the bush
• Samsung’s TV Remote app makes HDTVs do as your iPhone / iPad commands
• Augmented reality for real estate search
• Simple mobile technologies could save British NHS billions
• Imagine Cup Contestants Aim to Use Phones to Help Stop World’s No. 1 Killer
• Transit Riders Hail the New Killer App
• Working in the Dark: Mobile Tech at Home

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• US Operators Tapping Wholesale Market for Growth
• Do Neutral Wireless Networks Require an End to the Flat-rate Plan?
• Mobile Data Can Stabilize Operator Revenues by End of 2010
• AT&T Feels The Thrill Of The iPhone
• What’s so bad about being ‘the pipe?’
• Mass adoption of smartphones is eroding operator profitability
• A grim earnings season ahead for operators?
• Three Headlines No Telecom CEO Wants to Read
• Google: Where to Collaborate, Where to Compete?

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• Mobile Increasingly Important for Small Biz
• How much mobile broadband traffic is outside the user’s awareness?
• Game Industry Growth to Come From ‘Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere’ Devices, says DFC
• Wireless Broadband Disruption – WiMAX, LTE or Wi-Fi
• Mobile data traffic surpasses voice
• IPhone App to Sidestep AT&T
• The (R)evolution of Mobile
• The smartphone: a shackle once more
• No such thing as a smart pipe...
• Nokia’s CEO on the Challenges & Promise of the New Mobile Industry
• What Will Be the Next Big Thing in the Mobile Space?
• Jarich on death and mobile broadband
• Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet

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• Every New Lenovo Thinkpad Will Integrate Sprint 3G/4G
• 1 in 2 Americans Will Have a Smartphone by Christmas 2011
• Final 2009 mobile phone market numbers as all have reported: we have big news
• For HTC, Android Brings Growth & Profits
• All Quiet on Western Front - Smartphone battle update: RIM is NOT in trouble
• Google Is Missing an Android Opportunity on Non-smartphones
• Chipset vendors’ challenges multiply amid smartphone upheaval
• Microsoft Pink, Why is this Big News in smartphones?
• iPhone in Memoriam: A History from its Peak Moment of Success. But who copied whom?
• Editorial: HTC and Palm should get hitched and make beautiful babies
• Think Pink - First take on Microsoft’s Kin
• Palm’s Road to Nowhere — Is It Really Worth $1B?

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• Apple vs. Nokia: strategic lessons from the Smartphone / Appstore Wars
• How Google Is Managing the Android Fragmentation Issue
• Mozilla halts Firefox development for Windows Mobile, won’t offer it on Windows Phone 7 without NDK
• How The Discovery Channel Makes Mobile Apps Pay
• Has Google Solved Its Android Fragmentation Problem?
• When It Comes to Apps, Feature Phones Are the New Black
• In the App Economy Does the Mobile Browser Matter?
• App Dilemma – Who’s Going To Tell Me What I Want?
• Android Market gets 9,000 new apps in March, world domination can’t be far behind
• Steve Jobs responds directly to developer over new iPhone SDK rules, cites blog for explanation
• Opening Up Mobile Monetization

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• Giving fax the axe
• RainedOut Wins Mobility Award for Best Alerting Service
• Nokia N900 controls a full size helicopter
• Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans
• Our newest Mobile Search feature: Where am I?
• Seeking Jumbotron Fame? CrowdCameo Lets You Upload Mobile Photos To The Big Board
• Remote home monitoring makes nurses more efficient
• Sports on mobile: Driving more revenue through personalization
• Greater Chicago Food Depository adopts 4G
• Reach Out, Touch Faith and Donate on the Mobile Web

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• Sprint 4G Now in Houston — Bye-Bye MiFi
• Vodafone to Verizon: Pay, Buy or Merge – Your Call!
• Who Controls Verizon Wireless?
• The dangers of over-reliance on simplistic metrics
• Telcos can’t avoid ‘pipe’ black hole
• Are Harbinger’s LTE Network Plans a Red Herring?
• Everyone Must Innovate — That Means You, Too, Carrier Networks
• Prepaid wireless picking off two-thirds of new subs
• Telcordia Warns of Mobile Operator Marginalization
• Industry losing billions through revenue leakage according to KPMG survey
• Wireless Net Neutrality: Dead?