The big winner at CTIA’s IT & Entertainment show was Android.
Telefonica’s exclusive agreement to end — Orange will soon be able to sell iPhones in France. France Telecom’s Orange to Sell iPhone in U.K.
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| France Télécom SA’s Orange said Monday that it reached an agreement to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone in the U.K. later this year, bringing to an end a two-year exclusive contract held by rival Telefónica SA’s O2 mobile network. |
Orange will sell both the original iPhone 3G model and the latest iPhone 3GS version, which was launched in June. Above, buyers in June. Read more at online.wsj.com |
Craig Moffett says Cable is a better bet for investors…
Cable Vs. Wireless: Guess Which Is Growing Faster? |
It’s almost impossible believe, but there it is: the cable industry is actually outgrowing the wireless sector. |
| Moffett says there are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which is that the wireless market is much, much more competitive. In wireless, there are five facilities-based carriers in most markets - AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile and either Leap Wireless or Metro PCS. In some markets, there are also regional players, like U.S. Cellular. |
Contrast that with the pay TV market, where in 75% of the country there are just three players - the cable company, DirecTV and Dish Network, and in 25% there are four, adding in Verizon’s FiOS service or AT&T U-Verse. Read more at blogs.barrons.com |
| Top 50 Women in mobile content revealed |
Back for its second year, ME’s list of foremost female execs in the mobile entertainment space. |
Tamara Gruber
VP of Marketing, Crisp
Gruber arrived at the US ad specialist Crisp with over 11 years of experience in mobile, and is helping it expand a client base that includes Time and USA Today. Read more at www.mobile-ent.biz |
i believed this would happen when i first started in the wireless industry - now it is becoming reality! Pew: minorities embrace internet via handheld devices |
The Pew Internet Life Project says that more and more African Americans and Hispanics get their internet from hand held devices, a trend that evens the digital divide. |
| A new report released by the Pew Internet and and American Life Project will surely spill over into arguments over broadband penetration in the United States, not to mention other debates. It says that African-Americans access the Internet via handheld devices more often than whites, for whom an online connection is more likely to come from an ISP-connected computer. “This means the digital divide between African Americans and white Americans diminishes when mobile use is taken into account,” Pew says.Read more at arstechnica.com |
what started out as a trickle is developing into a storm… It’s time to send a message, since AT&T can’t provide us with ours with any sort of reliability. |
The number one selling phone at AT&T is the GO phone (a no thrills / no contract product offering). Verizon continues to lead the industry with the quality of their network (not their phone selection). The basics do matter… | Survey: Handsets’ Fancy Features Unimportant |
The survey, which asked consumers what factors influenced their decision to buy a handset, found that 64 percent were less concerned with high-tech features than they were with basic factors like the size and color of the phone. |
| Fifty-nine percent of those surveyed cited size and form as the most important, |
| Although 64 percent of respondents purchased a device with full Web browser and e-mail, 46 percent said they never use the function and only 15 percent cited it as a necessary feature.Read more at www.wirelessweek.com |
NPR’s done a nice write-up on The Extraordinaries — a great application for crowdsourcing volunteer opportunities. The Extraordinaries: Will Microvolunteering Work? |
| Got five minutes? Got a cell phone? Want to do good? |
The Extraordinaries can help. It’s one of a number of newly hatched social-media enterprises that champion speedy cooperation. Here is the 30-second elevator pitch: The Extraordinaries delivers microvolunteer opportunities to mobile phones that can be done on-demand and on-the-spot. |
a two-front war is at work here…
While Google has been able to translate its lead in desktop search to the mobile environment, owning 47% of the mobile search traffic to Yahoo’s 25%, according to ComScore, the web may turn out not to be the de facto entry point for search on the phone the way it had been for wired PCs.
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| According to the Kelsey Group, U.S. mobile search advertising revenue, including mobile web and in-app search, is expected to grow from $39 million in 2008 to $2.3 billion by 2013 |
| the latest data from AdMob suggests that more traffic is migrating to apps: More than 60% of the ad requests in its iPhone network come from applications, vs. 40% from the mobile web.
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While it will be another two to three years before mobile advertising generates meaningful dollars, Mr. Lindsay said “early positioning in this space is critical to longer-term success.”
Read more at adage.com |
Interesting perspective from Marc Hedlund… | I’ve been thinking of the role third-party applications played in helping Palm maintain its mobile platform dominance for about that same period, from 1996 to 2006. If you believe Palm apps were a primary cause of Palm’s long-term success against Microsoft and other competitors — apps which were far more awkward to install than iPhone apps, which had a far narrower range of interface or capabilities, and which for a long time didn’t even have a network connection to use, and yet which still spawned the term “Palm Economy” to describe the developers making money off their sales — then what has happened on the App Store over the past year should make the case for the iPhoneOS’s dominance. |
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Droid, the buzz at CTIA
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