Katie Couric is in Your Mobiles

The Katie Couric App Platform. Move over iPhone and Android: there’s a new mobile platform in town. Katie Couric is storming toward media domination launching her own mobile platform for apps. You see, at CBS, you can have your iPhone apps, your Android apps, your Blackberry apps, and then…your Katie Couric apps. She forced CBS to put her new mobile platform on their web site! The Katie... [Read more]

Let’s think About This….iPads in the Military

[Selected post on Carnival of Mobilists] Recently, I read about the military considering deploying iPads in the field. Soldiers love their iPods. But then, I guess if Al-Qaeda used a common browser plugin for content that the iPad didn’t support, intelligence would be pretty much up the creek. They’d be the non-universal soldier. Al-Qaeda would have an engima machine. And imagine if they... [Read more]

This is What Success Looks Like

Ada Lady Ada day rolls around once a year and reminds us to think about Ada’s contributions to technology and women in technology. I took a pledge to blog, celebrating the day. It’s cool to note that women inspire, make great inventions and creations and question and push the world forward: they always have. Whenever people doubt that, and believe that women have just crotcheted on the... [Read more]

The Future is Liquid and I Want It - Exciting Devices

The Japanese are living our future. At CEATEC, the annual Japan high tech show, they tease us with it. Take a look at the Fujitsu concept phone from CEATEC 2009: the Ameboa. It looks like a piece of crystal and changes its display to a keyboard to an internet browser to controls. There are buttons on four sides of the phone to change modes. Apparently Fijitsu’s been experimenting with liquid... [Read more]

Essentials: Those wonderful new devices and what makes them required

When Melissa Brandts set up her camera to take a picture of her Canadian vacation, at the last second, a squirrel planted right in front of the camera’s lens - fascinated by the whirling sounds of focus. The picture made her and her husband laugh all the way back on the plane and now it’s going out in waves, having a network effect of comedy in the blogosphere.  If that is not worth the... [Read more]

Sprint Buys Virgin: Can Sprint put Virgin on a Better Platform Yet Maintain its “Virginness?”

 [Selected post on Carnival of Mobilists]   Last week, Sprint bought the MVNO Virgin Mobile (US) for $483M, raising it’s inhouse share of the lucrative prepaid market and younger customers. It’s seen by many as a good move in recessionary times, since prepaid customers are growing and can improve Sprint’s overall subscriber count. The question is: Can Sprint keep the successful... [Read more]

Sprint Gets Openly RESTful - Services

A first for US carriers, Sprint opened up a few REST services for developers to play with for free at their dev Sandbox (http://www.sprintdevelopersandbox.com/). Developers can access location, simple presence, and send SMS messages through the services to Sprint handsets without requiring any software installed to the handset. With the services, you can prototype web or mobile apps that query Sprint... [Read more]

Ivan Seidenberg Likes Fed Ex

Metaphors are powerful. Tonight, Ivan Seidenberg, CEO and Chairman of Verizon visited the Charlie Rose show, and I was struck by his mention several times of Fed Ex as an admirable model for his company. Simply put, it’s as if he thought Verizon was in the business of delivering packets like packages. But his admiration extended to Fed Ex’s international ambitions. Now, telecommunications... [Read more]

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