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.)

• Is Apple About To Cut Out the Carriers?
• Mobile Carriers Must Focus on Data Services as Smartphone Sales Exceed 215 Million Units in 2010
• Mobile operators have lost their chance at owning the social graph
• The SIM card. The single point of failure for the mobile industry as we know it.
• Smartphone users: I want my unlimited data
• Smartphones, data hogs causing wireless network capacity crunch
• Volume Cap Based Pricing Kills Appetite for Mobile Data
• Cox unveils quad-play incorporating CDMA wireless service
• Is There Money for Carriers in the Mobile Wallet?
• Carriers Have a Hunch There’s Money in User Data

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.)

• US Students View Mobile Devices as Critical to Learning Process
• Find your polling place and follow the US Election on the go
• 5 ways mobile car apps will change the way you drive
• Alcatel-Lucent solution helps service providers turn mobile phones into life savers
• MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. CONSUMERS PLAN TO USE THEIR MOBILE PHONE FOR HOLIDAY SHOPPING
• Want Your Kids to Learn More? Use m-Learning Tools. My Art Space with UK Museums
• Workforce management solution increases merchandisers’ productivity
• Using Free WiMAX Network to Track Available Car Park Spaces
• Russian Networks Test Train Ticket Payments with Mobile Phones
• Keep an Ear on Elderly Parents With Sonamba

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.)

• Symbian Foundation facing extinction as funding dwindles
• The global handset market in the third quarter of 2010
• 5 Ways a Google Nexus Two Could Break Carrier Control
• Equipment vendors continuing to struggle with component shortages
• What Sony Must Get Right With Its PlayStation Phone
• Android Still on Top; Now Crushing BlackBerry
• The Rise of the Gigabyte Phone
• Take a deep dive into the U.S. smartphone market
• Google Working on Phone with Built-in Payment Tool
• Why Apple can’t beat Android
• Is Symbian dead? And if so, who killed it?
• Bloodbath Q3 final numbers: the Smartphone Race gets ever more tight
• Part of Nokia’s problem - making Ovi compelling

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.

• Appcelerator and PayPal Plan Mobile Commerce App Explosion
• PayPal Bets Its Future on Mobile
• Android Ad Impressions Surge While Revenue Eclipses iPhone
• Almost half of Mobile Phone Users Accessing the Internet
• Sprint’s mobile wallet sounds sensible
• Investor Marc Andreessen wants “everything but love notes” in the cloud
• Will Location-Based Services Ever Go Mainstream?
• Facebook’s Mobile Ambitions Get Bigger
• Wirefly Launches Free Mobile Backup Service
• Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson finds himself at SimpleGeo

The employee accounts team has worked through all the complexities for folks who once were SERO but mysteriously were changed to non-SERO accounts with the same pricing and features. It appears that most folks who went through this switch were part of employee discount plans that are incompatible with SERO, since SERO is so low-priced that additional discounts aren’t supposed to be applied.

The employee accounts team has put in place a mechanism to quickly verify if someone used to be SERO and were automatically switched to non-SERO (in other words, don’t bother trying if you’ve never been SERO or if your account was switched to Everything Plus so that you could get an iconic device). If you’re in this camp (automatically switched), and you want to upgrade to SERO Premium, and you’re willing to give up any discounts you have on your SERO line, then follow these steps:

• Email everythingreferral@sprint.com with your account details (e.g. your account # or phone #) and the request to migrate to SERO Premium.
• You’ll get an e-mail confirmation back when your account has been upgraded to SERO Premium
• You can then call telesales, go to sprint.com, or go to a company-owned store to upgrade/buy an iconic device
• (If you buy from telesales or the web, when the device arrives, you’ll call employee care to activate the device.)

Let me know if you have any problems.

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.)

• Why Mobile Apps Are Bad
• RIM Beats Apple to the Punch With App Purchases on Web
• Nokia taps Qt as its sole app development framework
• Enterprise mobility: It’s the apps, stupid
• Appbackr Introduces Wholesale Marketplace for Apps
• Sprint unveils cross-platform mobile web apps storefront
• Sprint Offering App Developer Tools Online
• Do We Need a Global App Store for Feature Phones?
• MacroSolve’s Patented Platform-Agnostic Technology and ReForm XT to Transform Mobile App Landscape
• Callaway Wants to Tap the Second Phase of the App Revolution

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.)

• Apple, Adobe, and Openness: Let’s Get Real
• Let’s Face Facts: Google Isn’t So Open At Times Either
• Where next for operators’ service innovation?
• An Open iPhone App Market That Doesn’t Require Jailbreaking… And Which Apple Can’t Stop
• Boris’s Bikes and Open Data
• New Carrier-App Developer Relationships Speed Up Innovation and Time to Market
• Business Case for Opening The Network
• What is definition of “Open” ?
• Sprint’s McGinnis talks Sprint ID and redefining the mobile app experience
• Sprint CEO: Internet of Things & Telco of Tomorrow

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!

• Massage chairs
• Game systems
• Hotel room doors

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

• Embedded mobile M2M modem market on track to more than triple in 2010
• Cellular M2M Connections Will Show Steady Growth to Top 297 Million in 2015
• Report: Mobile navigation users reach 44 million worldwide
• Global Number of Navigation Shipments to Reach 283 Million by 2015
• Nielsen: Teen mobile data usage quadruples over last year
• Mobile video calling to hit 29 million users by 2015
• Mobile Video Calling Revenues to Surpass $1 Billion by 2015
• Just over Half of US Consumers interested in Femtocells
• U.S. patient monitoring market to rise above $4B by 2017
• Mobile Advertising Spending to Reach $743 Million in 2010
• Global mobile ad revenues to reach $24B in 2015