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.)

• Report: Amazon, looking beyond Kindle, considers making phones
• Worldwide Mobile Device Sales Grew 13.8% in Q2, But Competition Drove Prices Down
• A Planet of Connected Devices
• Smartphone Bloodbath: Report Card at Half Point of Year 2010 for all major brands
• From Hot to Not: How Component Shortages Will Stifle the Smartphone Market
• Android Users Are the New Mobile Data Hogs
• RIM’s Flickering Torch Should Signal Defeat For The “Consumer-Grade” Blackberry
• RIM Must Switch To Android Now, Before It’s Too Late
• Handset exclusivity - One year at the FCC
• RIM is the New Palm
• Android Nation?

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.)

• GetJar tops 3 million application downloads per day
• Evaluating App Store Opportunities
• New apps make smartphones more valuable than stethoscopes to some docs
• iPhone App Exchange: Where’s the Open Source Love?
• Developer Community / Ingestion Management Taxonomies
• GetJar Enables Mobile App Recommendations to Get Social
• Social app directory Appolicious launches Android, Yahoo sites
• Android developer anecdotally claims AdMob brings home the bacon
• The New World of Infrastructure Apps
• Qualcomm launches incubator to foster mobile apps and services

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.)

• For Google, the Cloud Is Its Mobile Future
• News Corp. to unveil digital newspaper for mobile devices
• Apple Shutting Down Quattro Wireless Ad Service
• Hungry For Mobile E-Commerce, MasterCard Drops $520M on DataCash
• Feature Phones Rule the Mobile Web
• Mobile Impact of MasterCard API Move: Covering The Bases
• NFC Mobile Commerce? Verizon-AT&T Led Mobile Payments Consortium Faces Challenges and The Potential of Software-based Solutions
• The Next Big Thing in Location: Recommended Places
• Android web browsing surges 400 percent in Q2
• Is mobile voice being over-valued?

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.)

• How e-Books Won the War
• Global mobile data traffic nearly triples in 1 year
• US Mobile Revenue to Overtake All Fixed-Line Services by 2015
• Google’s Schmidt forecasts annual Android revenues to top $10B
• Google’s Hugo Barra On the Confluence of Mobile & Cloud
• Mobile Security and the Internet of Things
• Will all mobile business apps reside in the cloud?
• More Online Retailers Get Mobile Act Together – But Majority of Sites Lack Mobile Compatibility
• Gluts and glory
• Why Microsoft’s Mobile Gaming Strategy Is a Mistake

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:

• Paper thin speakers
• 128GB NAND flash
• Flash 10.1
• Augmented reality
• Micronavigation
• Bluetooth 4.0
• 3D Displays
• jQuery
• 1.5GHz Snapdragon
• Dual-Mode WiMAX/LTE Chip
• 64GB integrated SSD

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.)

• Massachusetts Transport Agency launches mobile parking payments
• iPhone 4’s motion detectors open up a new class of medical apps for British doc
• WellPoint, Aetna, Humana test wireless monitoring for congestive heart failure
• CardMunch Transcribes Business Cards Using Your iPhone Camera
• Kobo e-reader sashays into ten Fairmont hotel properties, adds to your poolside experience
• Observing Ramadan? There’s an App for That
• Using Mobile Phones to Improve Information for Brazil’s Fishermen
• Study: Remote monitoring cuts hospitalization, mortality for heart failure
• Testing Smartphones as Vocal Language Translation Tools
• Best Buy to Expand Location-based Smartphone Rewards
• Pleco 2.2 Chinese Dictionary uses iPhone camera to translate text in real time

Stephen Jannise of Distribution Software Advice has looked at Oracle’s history of acquisitions and reached the conclusion that RIM might be on their list of next targets. But he wants to know what you think, so he has posted his thinking along with a simple poll to collect the input of others.

Want to help him out?

I’ve always known that Emily Green was a smart analyst of what’s happening in the telecom industry, but her recent blog post shows she’s also a smart traveler.

Here are a couple of quotes to give you a sense:

“I have been on a family road trip for the past week. Writing today from Richmond, Virginia, I am here to tell you that the best way to vacation in 2010, at least in the U.S., requires the following:” (You’ll have to read the post to find out what 3 things are required for the best vacation…)

“Once you have these three elements … here’s what happens: … You ditch all other means of navigation. … You have a richer view of the changing world around you. … You skip the hotel room Spectravision. In a shocking turn of events, the TV remote has sat untended on the bureau, because no one wants to watch TV. …”

Check it out!

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• Amazon m-commerce sales top $1 billion over last 12 months
• Mobile Money- Are MNO’s Out of The Loop?
• Discovery premieres dedicated FLO TV mobile channel
• YouTube over a third of worldwide mobile video traffic
• Adoption of Mobile Banking Services Exceeds Expectations
• Dedicated Mobile TV Networks Face Uncertain Future
• Multi-Party Video Calling for Evo From Damaka
• Sonic Solutions teams with Widevine on mobile movie streaming
• Operators targeting Texas, Utah for contactless payment trials
• Apple Facetime Sounds the Death Knell for Upfront Per-Service Charging
• Mobile Data Mediation - profiting from the exponential increase in mobile data use
• Mobile TV: Bigger Is Better
• New York Times launches Press Engine mobile content platform

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.)

• Mobile operators’ future voice strategies decoded
• Best Buy to launch broadband MVNO using Sprint’s EV-DO network
• What AT&T should be saying to its subscribers
• 3 UK rolls out The One plan, promises not to use the word ‘unlimited’ when it’s not unlimited
• Sprint May, May Not Someday Cap 4G Service
• Mobile Broadband: Backhaul’s the issue not the air interface
• A Harbinger of Sorts: Build It and Will They Come?
• Mobile WiMAX is Rapidly Gaining World-Wide Adoption
• Devices 2.0: ‘Beyond Smartphones’ - Innovation Strategies for Operators
• U.S. mobile data service revenues top $13.2 billion in Q2