After months of San Francisco residents not caring about Sprint’s 4G service, these Bay area types now have a reason to stand up and pay attention. Sprint has launched their WiMAX service today in San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto and Oakland. The Bay Area joins Los Angeles in the 4G circle, as the Southland…
Introducing a new show that you can catch me on! A few friends and I got together and decided to give a new take on the mobile landscape. Join us this Thursday, 9 November at 7:00 PM Pacific Time. This week, we’ll be talking about Nokia and the current state of this once mighty brand….
Nimbuzz, a well respected player in the mobile VoIP arena, has had some amazing success in the last few years. The application and corresponding telephony service is available on many mobile platforms including iPhone, Symbian and Android. One major selling point for Nimbuzz is the fact that it allows access to the Skype service as…
Facebook is building a phone. This has been discussed over and over in the blogosphere starting this last weekend when Techcrunch broke the news. i was very bullish on this prospect at first…instead hoping that Facebook would devote their energy to perfecting their existing apps on Android, iPhone, Palm and other platforms. However, a post…
Starbucks has long had an iPhone application, but now the coffee company is branching out and embracing another mobile platform as well. The Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry will allow BlackBerry users to do basic functions with their mobile phones. It is interesting to me that it has Starbucks this long to embrace BlackBerry,…
Adobe, the prolific software maker for desktop computers, recently released a report that gave us more insight in the mobile apps versus mobile web debate.’a0 According to Adobe, 80% of respondents are planning or have already deployed a mobile-friendly website.’a0 For comparison, only 8 percent said they were interested in mobile applications. It must be…
A few weeks ago over the weekend, notable bloggers such as Robert Scoble and a few others were going on and on about their choice in smartphones and why iPhone was better than Android and vice versa. Here’s my take: it’s so great you have the phone you have! Debating about what phone model is…
There are 5 major mobile operating systems including: BlackBerry OS, iPhone OS (now called iOS), Windows Mobile, Palm’s WebOS, Android and Symbian/S60. With that in mind, let’s look at the comScore market share results that were released just yesterday: So, with Apple’s iPhone only garnering 25% of the US smartphone market share – why is…
If a couple of US Senators have their way, you will soon be required to show ID when purchasing pre-paid wireless in the United States. Currently, anyone can walk into a cell phone shop and buy pre-paid service with no checks or hold-ups. As the Consumerist points out, popular TV show The Wire shows that…
Innotech is an annual technology conference that takes place here in Portland, Oregon. It’s not the biggest tech conference on the west coast, but it’s a good event for Portland and I do look forward to it each Spring. Last year, the Innotech organizers put together a few mobile-focused events. This year, I’ll be leading…