Do You Still Make Voice Calls?

Interesting article today on Telecoms Korea: “Pantech Handsets Cause Stress“. Well, that’s quite funny. Don’t have anything to say about Pantech mobile phones. Their penetration in the Italian market is not really remarkable at the mobile but the interesting thing here is another. Korean mobile phone users, among with Japanese people, are the most advanced […]

GSM Association and Mobile Advertising

On May 22nd a press release from GSM Association states that it will push for a “common standard, measurement, and code of conduct for Mobile Advertisement”. You may want to read the original press release by following this link. The first thing I was wondering about while reading the Press Release is why the GSMA […]

Innovation funnel and funny services

When I went through this article from Digital Chosunibo I could not do anything else that roll on the floor laughing. SK Telecom has launched a new service dedicated to fishermen that will allow them to monitor the depth and temperature of the water where they are fishing and will show them the location of […]

Is 3G delivering on its promise?

I have recently read a very good post from the guys at The Mobile Technology Weblog titled “Killer Apps Wanted for 3G“. In this article 3g operators are depicted as still looking to find the “killer application that will eventually make 3G services repay the investment the carriers have made in infrastructure”. This is somehow […]

Innovation (in)sanity in Health Care

For several different reasons that I prefer not to share with you readers, I spent part of my life (during the last 20 years) sitting apart of my wifeâ€™s bed in a hospital. Nothing so tragic or sad, every time it was about scheduled operations, simple surgical treatments usually, so I think I could be […]

The mobile phone as a vending machine

When you come to mobile content you can find two different types of usage: You don’t want to miss you favorite TV show or soccer game while you are on the move or, sure it happens, if someone has taken ownership of your television set at home. You have some time to spend while commuting, […]

Oh my God!!

The magic word â€œtubeâ€? itâ€™s going to be applied to everything that could be put on the internet with the mark of success. One of these examples is the brand new GodTube, a web site where you can distribute home made videos that give evidence of Lord through interviews, quotations and testimonies. Nothing to say […]

Homesourcing

After ?Commodities?, let?s start to analyze “Homesourcing”, another intriguing word linked to our daily experience as ?working human being? or ?whub?. (I?m going to trademark whub, it?s a mixture of sounds and looks like the name of a robot, a not so smart one but faithful enough). So, you whubs, how much of your salary […]

Commodities

Commodization: this term indicates that phenomenon through which the increasing availability or the reduced degree of differentiation of a certain kind of product (service or job) transforms it into undifferentiated goods (the so called commodity), easily available. When a product (or your job) becomes a commodity, its market value goes down and down, and it […]

The Internet in your phone

It really seems that all operators are signing agreements with all the major internet players. 3 is launching services with MSN, Yahoo, Google and Skype, Vodafone with YouTube and MySpace. Same thing seems to be happening with handset vendors. Just look at the last Nokia press release announcing an agreement with YouTube while, historically, they […]

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