McGuire’s Law

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:

• South Carolina creates Wireless Technology and Communications Commission
• 3.7T SMS messages
• VCs invest $5M in text-message advertising startup
• Seven out of ten using mobile e-mail
• One-third have accessed the web wirelessly

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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:

• VCs invest $12M in mobile hieroglyphics?
• “In India, Music is Simply Mobile”

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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:

• 60% of PDAs shipped are cellphones
• More than 39% of workforce is mobile (pdf link)
• % of americans accessing the Internet wirelessly tripled over past 3 years (pdf link)
• Young people going without food, clothes, and textbooks to afford mobile phones
• Cellphone exhibit at Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum
• 33% will text their valentine during 2007 (up from 6% in 2006)

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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:

• 40B SMS messages
• Mobile entertainment hit $19B in 2006
• WiMax chip companies raising $millions

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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:

• Novel made up entirely of text messages
• One billion in one year
• 200M Vodafone customers
• 15.9M mobile Internet connections

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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:

• More PCs than cars, 3x as many cellphones as PCs
• 460M cameraphones sold in 2006
• Ban doesn’t keep 1500 of 1600 high schoolers from carrying cellphones
• Cellphone use being added to accident reports
• 45% of young adults use cellphones to talk to their parents daily
• Airports adding power stations
• Musicphones outsell iPods 7:1
• Mobile Bollywood Initiative
• More China Mobile subscribers than people in the US
• TXT Bee for parent/teen teams
• 5.3M tweens with cellphones

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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 tags integrated with TV show
• One year to three billion
• One million speech-enabled mobile transactions
• One million mobile-video-capable
• 8% have cut the cord

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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:

• 500,000,000,000 MOU
• Mobile phones as symbolic of contemporary modern societies
• Complaining by cameraphone
• “CES is all about mobile”
• Macworld is all about mobile

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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:

• 1.2T text messages
• Her Majesty’s podcast
• Millions text in the New Year

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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:

• Rev A reaches 60 million
• 3G to reaching 167M in 2006
• More mobiles than landlines in Europe
• Mobile and online video eating into “fixed” TV time
• 52 companies produce Windows Mobile devices
• “Mobile music market is about to explode”
• $400M WiMax IPO

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