Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category

Does an iPhone increase your coolness factor?

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I'm not sure if an iPhone increases your coolness factor, but I'll find out in the next 2 weeks. I'll be giving a presentation on the iPhone to the rest of our company (Barkley) August 1st. Do you have hands on experience with the device? I'd be interested in ...

Verizon to cut off Amp’d? Who loses? Consumers.

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I was reading today's Fierce Mobile Content and saw the article Verizon seeking to terminate Amp'd service and it got my attention. Amp'd Mobile, as some of you may know, runs over the Verizon network. Amp'd is a MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). Basically, they offer mobile service but ...

Age of Conversation Book to Launch July 16th

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

The Age of Conversation book is near completion and will be available for purchase next week! A few months ago, I heard from Matt Dickman about a book project in the works that was being organized by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton. Here was the original assignment: 100 or so authors (I'm ...

Text messaging in the UK: a few services I just don’t get

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I was checking out some differences between US and UK text messaging services at http://www.text.it/text/messaging_info.cfm. I understand that people in other countries use mobile data services more than we do here in the US, but for the most part, the SMS services are pretty standard between the US and UK: weather, ...