McGuire’s Law

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Smartphone sales increase 16%
• 3.6B AdMob mobile ads in August
• More GPS-enabled phones ship than standalone navigation units
• 81% of Millennials are strongly interested in media mobility
• Cellphone sniffing prison dogs
• 100M EV-DO subs
• 40% growth in data services revenues

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Now playing: Micah Dalton - Looking For A New Way

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Mobile data cards moving into the home
• 50M HSPA subs
• 115M CDMA 3G subs
• A million new GSM subs per day
• 20% increase in mobile messaging volume
• 95B text messages
• Mobile web usage increases nearly 30% in one quarter
• U.S. wakes up to 3G

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Now playing: Katie Herzig - How the West Was Won

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• 297M handsets ship in 2Q
• Wireless and CE driving chip growth
• Mobile broadband growing at 104% CAGR
• Demand for mobile designers growing
• Two-thirds of all workers are using mobile or wireless technology
• 40% growth in mobile data
• People buying new phones, despite economy

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Now playing: Kate York - I Will Wait

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Mobile phone free zones
• Moratorium on mobile taxes
• Costco selling wireless to SMBs
• Mobility initiatives 3 of top 5 enterprise telecom priorities
• $200B in mobile data this year
• Mobile map usage grows 82%

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Now playing: Randy Stonehill - Turning Thirty

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• $1T
• Birds imitating ringtones
• Most mobilites want to do more than just talk
• Nearly 2M WiMax subs
• More than half of federal workers are using wireless Internet for their jobs
• Photo messaging making postcards obsolete
• 46% use phone cameras once a week

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Now playing: Alathea - Orphan Girl

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• 9M US mobilites have used their cellphone to pay
• Nearly a third of US small businesses are using smartphones
• $99B in video phone sales
• 100M European 3G subs
• SMBs turn to mobile phone first
• SMS users LOL at DMV
• Mobile becoming lifestyle assistant

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Now playing: Ben Shive - A Name A Name A Name

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Here are a few indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• 85% are Bluetooth aware
• 4.5 hours browsing per month
• 1B ads served
• Churchill Club says Mobility tops tech trends
• Mobile broadband to generate $860B in GDP over next 5 years
• Wireless apps hotter investment than social media
• Finnish incumbent telco migrating wireline customers to mobile
• Om: Devices with mobility built in “part of a movement that is breaking Web 2.0’s browser shackles”
• Stephenson: “As we connect more things and mobilize, we stimulate economic growth, and that drives prosperity”

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Now playing: Alathea - Rescue: A song for project rebirth

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Blyk hits 100k subs
• Wireless chip market outpaced wireline chips in 2007
• Mary Meeker: Mainframe -> Minicomputer -> PC -> PC Internet -> Mobile Internet
• 4 years, 1 month, 12 days and 5 hours
• BestBuy bets $2.1B on mobility
• Even the Pope is texting
• Youth smoking falls with mobile ownership
• mobileYouth report: Youth spend 8x as much on mobile as music

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Now playing: Ian - To Be Free

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• $32M for Truphone
• $20M for Obopay
• Mobile video revenues nearly triple
• AT&T shifting thousands of jobs from wireline to wireless
• Nearly half of mobile TV users are watching longer form shows

Full list here.

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Now playing: U2 - New Year’s Day

Bonus: C. Enrique Ortiz opines on why the mobility boom is happening

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Mobile e-mail second highest IT priority
• Cellphone toting lovebirds adorn wedding cakes
• Wireless skills becoming most important to IT managers

Full list here.

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Now playing: Stillwater Rhythm - To His House