The most convenient way that mobility is getting built into products is through the convergence into the cellphone of capabilities that previously existed as standalone products. That way, those products are now with you and available for your use whenever you need them wherever you go.
Archive for March, 2008
Converged Products: Week of 3/30/08
Monday, March 31st, 2008Big Bell Dogma: March 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008As we work to build mobility into every product, service, and process, our greatest inhibitor is the mindset represented by those who defend the tethering of products and processes to specific places. This mindset is fueled by the investments that have been made that establish power in the companies, departments, and individuals that stand in the way of mobilizing our lives and our businesses. These investments are not always in hard assets, but often are investments of time and experience to establish intellectual and relational assets. We should expect our assault on these ways to be defended to the death. Here are recent examples:
- The Tyranny of the SIM
- Blackberry ban in India
- Mobile payments FUD
- IP vs. PSTN
- Verizon Wireless: Open In Name Only?
- Big Bell learning tricks from credit card industry
- Big Bell “whines to FCC: make it easier for us to gain market share”
Complete list here.
(For more context, read the Mobile Declaration of Independence.)
Recent Research: March 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:
- 16% already banking mobile, 35% of rest are open to it
- Consumer telematics to reach $41B by 2013
- In building wireless to reach $15B by 2013
- Mobile messaging to reach $212B by 2013
- 1B GPS chips to ship in 2013
- 30M new cars to ship with on-board telematics by 2013
- IMS to provide mobile operators with $300B in new revenue over next 5 years
- 90M 4G subs by 2013
- Mobile search to reach $4.8B by 2013
- Mobile music, games, and TV to reach $34B by 2010
- 2.6B mobile tickets by 2011
Beyond the Phone: March 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Converging products into a cellphone is one way that mobility is getting built into every product, but it’s not the only way. Every month, I’ll focus on devices that are integrating the power of mobility into products themselves in ways that create new value for the customer. Power up!
Business Models: March 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):
- 2008, the Year the Mobile Market Gets Touch-y
- Mobile Payments Discussion Part 1 – Problem Setup
- In Search Of ? The Quest for Games in the Mobile Universe
- Highlights of the CMO Forum at Mobile World Congress
- Mobile video, the untapped resource?
- The Perfect Phone
- 6 ways the Starbucks-AT&T deal will change mobility
- The three laws of technology strategy
- Dean Bubley on Radio Technologies
- Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It?s a Deal
- Mobile Phones: Still A Hard Nut To Crack
- The Future Of Mobile Marketing Lies In Unlimited Access
- Cutting the cord for all-you-can-eat wireless plans
- The Telecoms Transaction Platform: Seven Key Questions
- Reach != Grasp
- The Uniqueness of the Mobile Channel
- LINC leased concept cellphone: don?t buy, borrow
- Audio Streaming: Probably Not What Your Mobile Carrier Had In Mind
- iPhone Ready to Rumble With BlackBerry
- Telecom Price War Could Lift BlackBerry Sales
- T-mobile to Ditch Several Nokia Handsets
- Unlimited offers ? New plan or new business model?
- 700 MHz Spectrum Initially A Bummer, Business Schools Conclude
- Is The iPhone Any More Attractive To Developers Now Than It Was Two Days Ago?
- Apple’s Walled Garden Will Hurt iPhone Innovation
- After iPhone Live: Is AppleTaking Down iPhone?s Walled Garden?Or Just Building A New Fence?
- iPhone and Android herald the end of the FUD /certification model ..
- Open Mobile and the evolution of Open Gardens
- Context is King ? Part 1
- Headlines for mobile numbers, coming this year 2008
- Permission Based is not enough: Understanding mobile advertising
- Fast is better than slow
- Auction over: Time for Leap-MetroPCS to merge?
- Microsoft Wants Wireless Consumers, Too
- Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out
- Anything but Anarchy in the UK
- Open Mobile business models ? the impact of free, open and fremium on the Mobile Data Industry
- Motorola Commences Process to Create Two Independent, Industry-Leading Companies
- Motorola’s Breakup Provides Opportunities For Competitors
- Qualcomm?s Jacobs laments sluggish pace of MediaFLO
- Dish Network spectrum buy perplexes
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Now playing: Phil Keaggy – Water Day
Enabling Technology: Week of 3/23/08
Friday, March 28th, 2008The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
- Titan and Expeditor
- Fingerprint sensor
- White space
- User experience advances
- LCB
- Push AJAX
- Super 3G
- TeaShark
- HSPA Evolution
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Now playing: Edwyn Collins – It’s In Your Heart
Indicators: Week of 3/23/08
Thursday, March 27th, 2008More 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 a $T industry in 2008 (total world economy = $40T)
- Overwhelming demand for mobilized product
- SpinVox: $500M
- “Applications trump network”
- New Dells feature GPS
- “Understand That Mobility Is King”
- CLECs adding wireless
- BubbleMotion: $14M
Full list here.
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Now playing: Phil Keaggy – Noah’s Shuffle
Capturing the Power: Week of 3/23/08
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Bonus: Brian Suda provides 7 tips for designing for the mobile web
Slideshow: Rudy De Waele shares his views on Mobile 2.0
Mobility is a wonderful thing. As mobility gets built into all products and services, businesses need to learn how to both capture the power of mobility and manage the dangers introduced through mobility. Here are some examples of how the power of mobility is being applied to create competitive advantage:
- Aruba and Avaya work together to mobilize workers and cut CO2 emissions
- Social networking to leverage location to capture the power as they go mobile
Complete list here
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Now playing: Jill Phillips – Wrecking Ball
Converged Products: Week of 3/23/08
Monday, March 24th, 2008The most convenient way that mobility is getting built into products is through the convergence into the cellphone of capabilities that previously existed as standalone products. That way, those products are now with you and available for your use whenever you need them wherever you go.
- Cellphone as book
- Cellphone as level
- Cellphone as web server
- Cellphone as MySpace
- Cellphone as geocache navigator
- Cellphone as microscope
- Cellphone as PC and TV
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Now playing: Don Chaffer – Sing With Great Affection
Enabling Technology: Week of 3/16/08
Friday, March 21st, 2008The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
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Now playing: Lori Chaffer – Please Don’t Make Us Sing This Song