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Posts tagged ‘Mobile’
We’re hearing rumblings in the mobile industry in OHANL that much of the anticipated build-out discussed during the mobile spectrum auction has been met with very tight purse strings and a paranoia of all things economic. It seems that many companies (and their investors) are taking a sober second look at the business climate and discussing deferrals and a much slower build-out plan.
Continue reading ‘Mobile Musings’ »
Recently we had company in from England and given our regular busy schedules we thought it might be civil of us to arrange to get them a prepaid mobile to use here while with us. We had some experience in using prepaid in England and Europe.
There the process was downright simple and cheap;
Continue reading ‘Prepaid Piracy’ »
The business of telecom in 2008 has been a stormy voyage, but perhaps less so than other sectors. Consolidation seems to continue to play an increasing role for both service providers and the companies who sell them OSS and BSS solutions. The European space has seen it share of challenges this year and the outlook is cautious for 2009.
Continue reading ‘The Year It Was—Europe’ »
Dear Palm Treo 680,
It’s over. It’s you not me!
I was a loyal Palm user for over 10 years. I’ve owned the following Palm products;
I was a dyed-in-the-wool user and probably caused dozens of my friends to buy Palms when they were the only real PDA on the block. No, I’ve used other PDAs but really liked the Palm OS and they way they operated seamlessly with my desktop. I also appreciated the flood of third party applications which were well priced and for the most part worked flawlessly. Relationships change, however…
Continue reading ‘Treo—Bye-o’ »
With the economy in the crapper, and new sales a memory of the past, has your boss gone into a blue funk? We have the perfect thing to bring life into that pointy hair.
Mobiado has always been known as a company that pushes luxury mobile phones to the limit. To reinforce that market leadership, this past week, they released the Mobiado Professional 105GMT Gold. It’s a Victorian looking wonder that would be right at home with H.G Well’s time traveller. We love its retro look and analog clocks—able to span three time zones.
This puppy will perform with specs like;
With words like sapphire crystal, ebony, 24 karat gold, and diamond you can rest assured that your boss will never again call you a tightwad. Buy one soon as there are only 50 made.
Over at Billing and OSS World they are running an interesting poll. Its asking about the degree to which you would trust your mobile provider to personalize information to you. It seems to us that this is a great question to open the debate about just what service providers are doing with our information. Over the next few weeks we are interested is seeing the results as the votes get tallied.
Continue reading ‘Trust Your Mobile Provider?’ »
We just made an interesting observation in a news article that covered a recent patent award that Google received for a voice interface for search engines. Further, this was coupled with Google’s posting its voice based search application, Google Mobile, to Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. As we are already big users of Google’s SMS search capability, it struck us as rather interesting to follow this to a future scenario.
Continue reading ‘BIG vs little’ »
Today a friend of ours pointed out an interesting agreement signed between ARM Ltd. and Canonical Ltd to use the Ubuntu operating system (OS) including the full desktop. ARM are the folks who build mobile processors with embedded operating systems, Canononical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu. These processors are used in hundreds of types of mobile devices (including our best loved and sadly missed Palm Tungsten).
Continue reading ‘ARM Wrestling Ubuntu’ »
Having cut our teeth in both the world of OSS and Convergent Billing we understand your pain. All forms of support systems seem to proliferate faster than the speed of profit.
The old adage;
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
lives large in the mobile industry (among many others). It seems to us that they should have learned from the wireline world. You didn’t have to be too alert to understand the problems of multiple billing & support systems and the creaking infrastructure that it ultimately causes.
Continue reading ‘Support Systems Multiplying like Rabbits’ »
