Tag Archive | "google"
October 5, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Mobile,
Monetization,
Social Media
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I recently sat down with Henry Vogel, the President and CEO of Apptera to talk about their new Android app, Poptuit. Poptuit is a multi-faceted consumer-focused app that brings together your favorite people and merchants together with your phone’s dialer, SMS messenger, email client, camera, maps, social apps and more into one easy to use [...]
September 26, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
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Enterprise,
Mobile,
Review
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Today GigaOM launched a report entitled, “The future of mobile: a segment analysis.” Among many other things, the report summarizes 11 critical lessons learned by the mobile industry, many of which I discussed in my recent post: “Waging the Mobile Patent War and the Future of Mobile Innovation…” “Avoid channel conflict” There have been several [...]
September 1, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Mobile
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Its been a huge couple of weeks in mobile… It started with Google‘s acquisition of Motorola Mobility on August 15th (its largest to date). That was followed by HP‘s announcement on August 18th that it is canceling its Palm line of WebOS-based hardware. The big news continued into week with Steve Jobs’s resignation as CEO [...]
February 24, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
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I spent last week in Barcelona for the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress. Here are some of the highlights…
September 9, 2010 by
Lisa Whelan |
Advertising,
Events,
Mobile,
Monetization
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Last week, I attended Samsung’s Free the TV Developer Day in San Jose, California. It was a well-organized, day-long event focusing on Samsung Apps technology and app development. All the talk of “smart TVs” got me to thinking about the future… Is Internet TV and apps the next big thing for developers? If the attendees [...]
March 3, 2010 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Today the World Economic Forum announced its 2010 list of the top 200-300 Young Global Leaders (YGL) Honourees. You can download the full list here. Among those on the list that mobile and web enthusiasts might know are: Ev Williams, Co-founder and CEO of Twitter Marissa Mayer, Vice-President, Search Product and User Experience at Google [...]
December 15, 2009 by
Lisa Whelan |
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I recently swapped my Nokia E71 out for an unlocked Motorola CLIQ (running on AT&T). I won the CLIQ at the recent MOTODEV Summit, and despite being excited to start using what looked like a great device, I was a little sad to give up my Nokia E71. Why? I like the E71 hardware a [...]
November 9, 2009 by
Lisa Whelan |
Advertising,
Enterprise,
Monetization,
Social Media
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There’s an interesting debate afoot… Could News Corporation (Newscorp) trump Google by preventing them from indexing their various sites including Wall Street Journal, or would this bring down Newscorp by making its content less discoverable? What would happen if the world’s biggest publishers joined forces together against Google and sold the ability to index their [...]
October 23, 2009 by
Lisa Whelan |
Consulting,
Developers,
Mobile,
Monetization,
Social Media
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After listening to the podcast I did on Wednesday with Motodev on how to incorporate social media into mobile applications, Matthäus Krzykowski, (a fellow mobile consultant, freelance writer for VentureBeat, and fascinating guy) tweeted: “@motodev @lisawhelan is great, enjoyed the podcast. However, as @danshapiro http://bit.ly/3eRvaK says viral broken is in mobile. Thoughts ?” It’s a [...]
September 23, 2009 by
Lisa Whelan |
Consulting,
Events,
Mobile,
Monetization,
Research
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Today is the last day of DEMOfall 09, and I’ll be live blogging about what I see. Please refresh your page regularly. It’s 9:30am, and we’re close to kick off… First up Nubli - a 90 second alpha pitch… Nubli figures out which emails and contacts are the most important to you and presents them [...]
