I have been tinkering around in mobile marketing space for awhile. Really more at the intersection of mobile, flash marketing, location-based services, and social spaces. It's a big intersection. What got me going on it was a mom named Anne that came up with a rather simple solution to a couple of the problems facing […]
Continue reading →The hordes waiting in line for hours today to get that new iPhone 4 make it hard to believe that Apple is losing share in the smartphone market. But as I wrote last week, they are and they will continue to do so. Those hordes are merely trading up, not increasing iPhone share one bit. […]
Continue reading →So yesterday, according to The New York Times, Apple took about 600k in new iPhone orders. Rock on. At about $200 a pop that is about $120 million in revenue plus whatever the AT&T sub happens to be. Most likely three x that or $360 mill in total. Not bad for a day when you are […]
Continue reading →Here in the heart of the New South folks don’t talk about Pepsi much. When I first moved to Atlanta from the NYC area I walked into Stone Soup and much to my surprise they did not even stock the stuff. Over on North Ave our KO friends will not mention the company by name. […]
Continue reading →Last week, in advance of the unveiling of the new iPhone 4G and the iPhone OS4 operating system a little bit later today by Steve Jobs at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, AT&T announced that it is dropping it's unlimited data plans for iPhones. Of course they did not spin it this way but instead […]
Continue reading →Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition is trying to find the best big ideas for mobile applications. And this year they are taking the contest to a new level by offering up a $1 million venture investment to the winning proposal that could change the way people use Nokia devices. The winning proposal will meet the […]
Continue reading →I'll be darned of I know. But I am going to make my way out to the Ashford Club on Thursday night to hear Fred Sturgis of HIG, Mike Elliott of Noro-Moseley, Nelson Chu of Kinetic Ventures, David Sung of ATDC, Tuff Yen of Seraph Group, and Said Mohammadioun of Tech Operators discuss where the […]
Continue reading →Yesterday afternoon a friend of mine checked in to The Commerce Club on foursquare. I had never heard of the place so I two tapped down to learn more. Note the green special nearby call out. It led to this loyalty/promotional offer from the Red Moon Cafe. Interesting.
Continue reading →This past Friday ATDC was the host sponsor for mobicamp, a new unconference centered around mobile technology and its impact on the day to day life of average users. About 70 or so mostly mobile devs descended on the incubator to talk about iPhone development (a bit too much) and more. While the production put […]
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