We are now 46 hours into the new reality of the new iPhone 3G and how it will change the competitive landscape.  I have conversed with many of my Apple-evangelist friends who always have the latest on the announcement - including rumors - and who are irritatingly sure that Apple has a genial master plan […]

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I just wanted to throw my two cents into the mix.  Everyone seems to be wanting to know what Apple will announce later today as if they could not just wait and let it happen.  Well, it will sure give indications on where we are going.  Remember, though, that it will give indications on what […]

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Today we saw an interesting announcement between Orange and Nokia: the companies are going to integrate their proprietary content services and promote them together.  The co-promotion will be implemented on ten Nokia handsets in Orange’s ’signature range’.  This is exactly what Nokia needs to do - move the operators away from ‘EITHER me OR you’ thinking […]

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MocoNews today picked up an interesting story on Orange having cut a deal with Facebook and MySpace for free browsing on those sites for their prepaid users.  According to the article, by giving access to those sites for free data cost, Orange is trying to attract more users to their mobile portal.I think this is […]

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Nokia is probably going to announce yet another stellar quarter on April 17 - unique in the industry where their traditional competition seems to fail - most notably Motorola.  Their 40% market share, a well-oiled product design and manufacturing machine and a $3.6 billion marketing budget will keep them executing well in the direction they […]

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(Disclaimer: I have been part of the journey of this company in 2006 until early 2007 as a bizdev consultant so this serves as a healthy self-criticism.) Sources familiar with the matter today reported that Sonopia has practically ceased operations and laid off all its US staff at the end of March. The […]

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Here I am, I guess it is important to take some time to get into a writing routine and post an entry every day so MEOW gets published as it should.  CTIA is a sick child - the potential is enormous but the carriers have treated it like the Soviets handled the Chernobyl aftermath. Or […]

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Yesterday Dee Dutta, CMO of Sony Ericsson was let go. The company had recently given a profit warning indicating a serious missing of targets in Europe. The CMO was busy spending money on a womens’ tennis tournament when the competition took strategic initiatives in a game where Sony should have had a lot […]

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(Disclaimer: these guys are actually one of my clients - but you have probably not heard of them yet so keep on reading.) Documill, based in Finland, has a search engine server add-on that enables a keyword search over PDF and MS Office document arhives, producing instant page level results. Those results are […]

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Reading an interesting piece: Twistbox Entertainment completed a reverse merger with OTC-listed Mandalay Media. Twistbox is the parent company of Waat Media who until very recently were openly promoted as the leading mobile adult content publisher and distributor and the ‘trusted advisor’ of mobile carriers worldwide.  Currently the website is very modest and mentions only […]

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