The U.S. handset market is all about exclusivity, notes RCR Wireless News. AT&T Mobility has dibs on Apple’s iPhone; Sprint Nextel has the Palm Pre; T-Mobile USA has the Android-based HTC G1; and Verizon Wireless has their Blackberry Stormx. Exclusivity is partly how carriers differentiate their offerings. The wireless ecosystem won’t open up much soon, [...]
The United States comes out on top in The Connectivity Scorecard. A Canadian academic, Leonard Waverman, ranks 25 developed countries. The biggest reason is that business in the United States has made extensive use of computers and the Internet and it has a technically skilled workforce. Waverman’s Connectivity Scorecard, using slick Flash graphics, enables you [...]
This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. — Bull Durham BarCamp NewsInnovation brings the unconference model to the news business. Unconferences are free, adhoc gatherings, with an agenda driven by the participants. UPDATE: Matt Neznanski [...]
My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don’t know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already. — American Beauty Today at the GSMA’s Mobile World [...]
Marc Andreessen appeared on Charlie Rose last night, notes TechCrunch. He gave Rose a primer on everything from Facebook and cloud computing to the mobile Web. He also tells Rose: “I’m creating a fund.”
Everybody at the Mobile World Congress, says Reuters, wants to be the new best friend of the social networks. From the world’s biggest phone maker, Nokia, to tiny Irish semiconductor start-up Movidia, delegates to the wireless industry’s biggest annual gathering couldn’t stop talking about Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. The two most talked about social networks; [...]
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