I am on my way to Orlando to chair mobile web americas .. And I read the latest business week which has an article about the gphone ..

Like many, I follow developments from Google, Nokia and Motorola - more than from Apple .. So anything about gphone catches my eye.

Whichever way you look at it(and whenever it will finally launch) - one thing is fairly certain: the gphone will be based on advertising

So, let’s analyse what that means
A). For the advertising model to work, we need eyeballs
B). For a truly mobile advertising experience, we need personalization
C). And finally, we need trust i.e. users must trust Google

Finally, to top it all, the ‘how’ is more important than the concepts themselves. The concepts have been around for a while .. Everyone talks of context. Everyone agrees it is important.

Ironically, anyone who has been in the industry for a while will agree that the industry is hopelessly fragmented …

The theme of the rise of consumerism over all of our lives is a something I am currently thinking about. And have thought about. Exhibit A – Companies are from Mars and Customers are from Venus. I find it a…

If you are a diabetes patient who is fed up of pricking your finger to draw blood each time you want to measure your sugar levels then you need to read this. All this will soon become a thing of…

Sep 28 was a big day .. Motorola and sprint demoed their new WiMAX 802.16e mobile handoffs across a Sprint brand Xohm prototype network on a boat cruising downtown Chicago’s skyscraper-canyoned mid-town river..

It was an event I was hoping to make this week but last the travel was too complex considering I am in orlando this weekend onwards chairing Mobile Web Americas

I am watching this space with great interest.

This announcement may be a game changer and bigger than the iPhone.

Unlike the iPhone announcement, which seems to have got a lot of press, the wimax demo is a fundamentally useful application and extends the network along new dimensions. Like I have always said(In an IP(IMS) world, the mobile device will drive convergence because services shift to the edge of the network – and devices are at the edge of the network ..), existing device manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia will be the big winners of the iPhone hype

Both Intel and Motorola are doing some very interesting work with Wimax

Great to see Motorola with some good news considering a few recent difficult quarters ..

More information at the Motorola site

Here is this rough and tough RFID tag from Intermec which has been created for delivering in tough conditions. Dubbed as Large Rigid tag, this is a UHF RFID transponder which offers high performance on various surfaces such as wood,…

Here is this rough and tough RFID tag from Intermec which has been created for delivering in tough conditions. Dubbed as Large Rigid tag, this is a UHF RFID transponder which offers high performance on various surfaces such as wood,…

Here is a thought. I am a frequent visitor to a country which has an operator who is in a strong, monopolistic situation.

Every time I visit this place, I think that the operator is doing a dis-service to the nation’s entrepreneurs.

In effect, the operator benefits on a short term basis from high prices and walled gardens.

The country’s government is blinded by short term stability in the marketplace.

Meanwhile the mobile entrepreneurs suffer (or emigrate to neighbouring countries with far more enlightened governments).

Very soon I expect that other more open technologies like wimax will come along.

The operator’s profitability will drop and they will probably be acquired because like all old operators they have a high cost base

However the real loser is the country - because I suspect that its best mobile entrepreneurs and will leave for foreign lands and that’s a permanent loss to the economy!

Korean company POSDATA unveiled the G100, which it calls the world's first mobile WiMax gaming device. “Gaming will be positioned as one of the initial killer applications for WiMax, when the technology will be introduced in Chicago and Baltimore…

One more MVNO down… Disney Mobile announced this week that it will be ceasing operations as of December 31st - and that Disney-related content and applications are no longer be available for purchase, effective immediately. The company will be…

We have to expect that oppressive governments will figure out text and picture messaging soon, so the current Myanmar blip probably won’t be repeated.
Solution?  Manufacture satellite picture phones.  Any picture they take gets automatically loaded to Flickr or another service, tagged with a custom tag (such as Myanmar_monks).
Build the things with a solar cell, so […]

Today I received a promotional email from Southwest Airlines, letting customers know they launched their mobile site (not a dotMobi domain). It had two features of particular mobile note:

mobile check-in: check in on your phone and pick up your boarding passes at the desk. This allows you to check in much earlier, and get […]

MuniWireless says Singapore aims to be the world’s most connected seaport.
Singapore, one of the world’s busiest seaports, aims to become one of the most connected with WISEPORT (WIreless-broadband-access for SEaPORT). The initiative between the Port Authority of Singapore and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore will provide all ships within 15 kilometers of Singapore’s shoreline […]

Yet another successful event for in the massive Makuhari Messe convention center saw almost 200,000 pass through the gates for TGS 2007. Aaaah.. the chaos, the crowds, the girls games.. how could we resist! A sunny Saturday afternoon brought out the kids - for family day - and plenty of Cosplay actors were swarming between show halls to pose down for the camera’s. But the real action, coming from every major player in the gaming world, was inside. WWJ has been on-hand for this event pretty much every year since 2002, with the first-to-web video of the Sony PSP in 2004, and this time out was perhaps the most impressive yet.

The obvious evolution on display was without a doubt the next gen. motion-sensor enabled Mega Games at the DoCoMo booth. While KDDI rolled-out the heavy armor with Metal Gear Solid and BioHazzard for mobile RPG products, the display which seems to have grabbed the most attention was from SoftBank Mobile. Thanks to Darth and the Tokyo StormTroopers, who un-leashed the new Star Wars PodRacer game, we were hooked from Go!

Motorola introduced its first handset to support Vcast Mobile TV from Verizon Wireless.
The Motorola Z6tv is a GPS-enabled slider phone with a 2.0 megapixel camera and video capture and playback. The handset features a 240- by 320-pixel screen with a Bluetooth headset for Vcast Music.
Verizon Wireless will begin offering the phone next Friday for […]

Building a nation-wide, 700mhz wireless network could cost as much as $12 billion and take as long as three years to build, said Google’s Washington telecom and media counsel on Sept. 25. That would be on top of a minimum of $4.6 billion to buy the spectrum.
Google’s Rick Whitt told students at George Washington University’s […]