Eric Schmidt recently spoke about the “Tipping Point” for mobile at a Telecomm roundtable in Davos. What has actually “Tipped” in mobile? For argument sake, lets define “Tipping Point” as the point where adoption becomes main stream. For mobile, “Tipping Point” would then depend on the underlying technolgies you are talking about such as Voice, SMS, J2ME, [...]
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Here are some general estimates of the business model and costs for a typical J2ME/BREW game. I did not include the NSTL testing costs in the Brew analysis, however that would be around $12-14K and would just make the Brew Breakeven longer. In general it takes about 1.5 years to breakeven on a game according to my [...]
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According to Nielsen( http://www.nielsen.com/media/2008/pr_080116.html), 46M people used mobile search in Q307. The interesting observation here is that most used Voice and SMS. I am assuming the 411 usage is voice with 18.1M users and SMS with 14.1M users. I found another piece of research that suggests only about 9M used mobile wap search in Q307.
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Its seems that there is more and more evidence that mobile off-deck traffic is growing fast. Here are some findings
1) Myspace - 150M pageviews/month
2) ESPN – 100M pageviews/month
3) Mocospace - 500M pageviews/month. Note as of 1-28-08 they are reporting 2M users and 1Billion pageviews per month.
4) Admob – serving 1.5B pageviews/month – in 160 countries
5) Adinfuse – [...]
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- Handsets – I caved in and bought an iphone. It has an awesome UI and great for web browsing, but doing email is very time consuming. I decided to get a Nokia N61i as backup, and to my dismay that has a bad UI and poor browsing capabilities. Its clear from my little experiment that [...]
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Having been in wireless for some time, i figured i would start documenting my observations. I was recently at a Sprint Developers Conference and John Burris – VP of Wireless Content gave a great talk on what open means. I thought his speech accurately frames some of the issues facing mobile:
Frictionless development
The ability for Content [...]
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