mobile
Fast five trends for right now
Trends are useful – but in my view, anything beyond 2-5 years is pure fiction. The seeds of mass market change are always with us, percolating away in the background – you just have to pay attention. Here are five I’m tracking right now….
Top 10 ways to kill your phone costs
Look after the cents and the dollars will look after themselves. You might have first heard this axiom on your mother’s knee, but it still holds as enduring business wisdom. Telco expense analyst Tony Simmons reveals 10 simple ways to reduce your company’s not-so-humble phone bill. It always makes sound business sense to manage costs. [...]
Mobile, Mostyle
When asked to name the handful of countries leading the world in mobile technology and content, most people fire back with Japan, South Korea, perhaps even the United States. However, there is a largely unheralded country pushing mobile content into new, uncharted territories: Australia. The challenge for Australian mobile content production companies is that, even [...]
Innovation: Disruption in the first degree
“Innovation” is a woolly beast. It has many disguises and aliases. To get face-to-face and down and dirty with innovation is no mean feat.
Built to flip
Some companies are built to be sold. The intellectual property and business processes are bedded down and bundled into a transferable package. Find a market gap, identify potential buyers, build it, drive home the value and make the trade sale. And then, if you enjoyed the ride, do it again.
Content is still king
Mobile companies across the globe have spent billions of dollars creating networks that essentially all offer the same services. It’s been a huge investment just to get to the starting line. But the real challenge is in providing something that is different from the competition.
Motorola’s market dilemma
Wandering through the halls of the enormous 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in February, it was plainly evident that mobile communications is still in the very active stages of the innovation cycle. This event, which brings together most of the world’s top telecommunications technology and network companies, has come a long way from its humble beginnings last decade in the French seaside town of Cannes, when early attendances numbered in the hundreds.









