BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER Be honest – who hasn’t had one of those “Did I lock the door?” moments when you can’t quite remember whether or not you actually turned off the heater/left all the lights on/locked the door properly behind you? I admit that it’s happened to me more than once. But the scope [...]
BLOGGER: GAYLE RINOT Did you know that “naughty” texting (also known as “sexting”) has changed the way we flirt? Or that the idea of instant messaging was invented while eating a pizza? These are two of ten astounding facts about the humble SMS whose technology has remained pretty much the same for the past 20 [...]
BLOGGER: ANAT BEN YAACOV When it comes to company communications, some companies assume their employees have a split personality – there’s their work persona and their private persona – but in 2011 (“the year Mobile IT was born”), this all finally started to change. According to GigaOm, IT departments have finally started to embrace the fact [...]
BLOGGER: ERIC M. DANIS National Basketball Association, you are dead to me. Despite a childhood spent as a basketball-obsessed Celtics fan with a huge poster of Larry Bird on my bedroom wall, I am sickened by the spectacle of team owners and players potentially cancelling this year’s season because they cannot equitably divide four billion [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Afraid of somehow losing your beloved pet dog? Not to worry – that’ll soon become a thing of the past. The tracking devices that fleet managers use for their trucks and cars are on their way to becoming embedded in household pets (or to be more precise, in their collars) as new [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK We’re already getting used to data caps on our mobile Internet usage, so AT&T’s decision to put a cap on data usage for its DSL and U-verse broadband services should not come as too much of a surprise. In fact, Comcast capped its broadband service way back in 2008. As in the [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER We’re all getting so comfortable using mobile technologies and devices that it’s easy to forget that there are times (and places) where we just shouldn’t be connected. In an interesting move, some US operators have begun to implement campaigns and services that might, at first glance, appear to be detrimental to their [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK With all the public concern over bill shock and the FCC’s meeting today to propose rules requiring mobile phone companies to alert customers when they are have reached monthly usage limits, what many people are forgetting is that it’s actually in the service providers’ interest to avoid bill shock. Given the intense [...]
BLOGGER: AMNON EKSTEIN Mobile VoIP services are growing, presenting a serious threat to many mobile operators’ traditional services. These operators are concerned they will lose control of voice-based services and the revenue they have become used to receiving from it. Research companies predict that mobile VoIP users will exceed 100 million by 2012 (Jupiter Research) [...]
BLOGGER: ANDY WESTON Mobile carriers have multi-million dollar advertising budgets at their disposal for building up brand strength and reputation. But its the personal touch points between a subscriber and its mobile carrier that play a more significant part in affecting how the subscriber perceives its carrier and the likelihood of the subscriber deciding to [...]
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