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Master analyst, Dean Bubley, has penned a post glancing into the new year about the winners and losers. Since I know Dean well, I’m not at all surprised at most of his observations.

To my friend Om, Happy # 8. Andy

When the email arrived, I got giddy. My head spun and the world turned all the colors of the rainbow. Amazon Web Services launch Cloudfront is a web based streaming and content delivery network that democratizes the whole game in a new and different way. As I read the teaser and visited the site, I … Read more

Let’s face it, the idea of WiFi by the major mobile operators in the USA has been more trial and error, or when they chose to explore it, for the most part it was more like seeing someone dip their toes in the water in the past, as in reality only T-Mobile and to some … Read more

I can hear the music video now, playing in my head. The song is from The seminal New Wave band of the 70’s, The Talking Heads, and it’s “Burning Down the House” as the AT&T network goes down in tatters all around a bunch of stunned and wide eyed executives in Dallas and Atlanta. Start … Read more

I’m sitting on the tarmac at London Heathrow for what is the last flight for me this year out of London’s largest airport. I’m connected with my Novatel Wireless MiFi 2352. It’s 3G and I made a Skype call from my MacBook Pro using client FreeTalk’s Everyman headset as the person I needed to call … Read more

Everyone who knows consumer electronics knows that in the USA, BestBuy is considered one of the savviest of retailers around, ranking up there with WalMart. So it’s not a surprise to me that Google has taken a page out of the BestBuy playbook that basically broke the price controls, ludicrous terms and changed the personal … Read more

As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we’ll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it’s a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this … Read more

As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we’ll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it’s a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this … Read more

If you have a campaign that is based upon “more bars in more places” and have made claims about “fewest dropped calls” then you better know where your problems lie. That’s the idea behind a new iPhone app from AT&T, called “Mark the Spot.” Personally, I would have named it “DropZone” as that defines what … Read more