Open vs. Reality

Lately it seems that the carriers talking about Open but still acting very Closed.
Both ATT Mobile and Sprint has reduced their game deck to 250 titles and 13 or so publishers.  All others must now go thru a company called the Wireless Developer Agency and others.
It seems to me outsourcing services to 3rd parties just makes [...]

Is there a “Tipping Point” for mobile

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, [...]

Where is mobile traffic headed?

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 – [...]

What “Open Network” means

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 [...]