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Blackberry CEO Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Apple and Mobile Operators
From the Toronto Star via Engadget Mobile: [RIM Co-CEO Balsillie] is also intensely critical of what appears to be an effort by Apple to wrest control of the customer experience in the consumer...
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Steve Jobs to Operators: Bend Over
Jobs is known for being cheeky – but check this out, then imagine the cursing going on in the boardrooms of Apple’s operator partners after today’s launch of the iPod Touch: Jobs: “Wi-Fi, as you know,...
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Canadian cellphone class-action goes ahead
A class-action suit against the long-running practice of Canadian mobile operators to charge unadvertised additional fees has just been certified by a judge in Saskatchewan. Any Canadians that would...
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Mobile Operators Stumble on Billable Identities, Apple Swoops In
The mobile operators have made a huge mistake on the identity front. The one long-term point of value they have aside from being a bit pipe is the possession of validated identities tied to a mobile...
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MIT Emerging Technologies Conference ’07
Last week I was at the EmTech conference at MIT to be recognized among this year’s TR35 recipients. I had the pleasure of meeting a number of recipients doing truly amazing work in a variety of fields...
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Where is the iPhone’s answer to Adobe AIR, or Google Gears?
Adobe’s AIR platform has shown that the web development model is fundamentally capable of delivering applications every bit as rich as native platform apps. Hence the outcry over the idea of web...
View ArticleThe iPhone SDK announcement – The big takeaways from today’s news
The big takeaways from today’s announcement of iPhone native SDK availability in February: 1. Partly this is a preemptive strike for the holiday season – remove a reason for some people not to buy, and...
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Debating the future of mobile platforms at MobileCamp Vancouver
This past weekend Vancouver had its very own MobileCampVancouver event organized by the Handi Mobility team. I was on the mobile industry panel with Dennis Knothe of Nokia, Harmander Gill of...
View ArticleMobile Web Platforms – Ready to Rumble in 2008
Paul Kedrosky on the under-appreciation of mobile web platforms: People just don’t get how good web apps on mobile can be. I get stuck in many conversations about native apps on mobile, which always...
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Global Instant Messaging Market Share – Open Data
Ever gone looking for instant messaging market share data? It seems almost unfathomable that there can be networks with active accounts numbering in the 100 MMs to billions and total accounts certainly...
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