http://nanhickman.com Open Strategies with Nan Hickman Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:55:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_277" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Katie Couric App Platform. "][/caption]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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=276 [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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=207 [caption id="attachment_226" align="alignleft" width="193" caption="Ada"][/caption] 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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=173 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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=135 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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=126  [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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=97 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, ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=82 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 ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=73 [caption id="attachment_299" align="alignleft" width="116" caption="BBQ"][/caption] Steve Jobs has been fighting the good fight to get back in the pink of health. We all wish him well. As he sought out the most superior ways to build himself up,  we know the real reason Steve Jobs went to Memphis Tennessee was for ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=68 Can Bubba pronounce your product name correctly? Take no chances. I was struck by Microsoft's new venture in gaming, "Project Natal." Now, looking at the name dead on, I'd think it was natal, associated with birth, pronounced natal like ... "fatal." But no, the Microsoft rep said it's Natal like ... http://nanhickman.com/?p=31