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SmartPhone Wars – Same As Browser War? Microsoft Windows Phone 7 "We Are A Consumer Product"
Last night I attended a small private briefing held in San Francisco by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team. My expectations were very low. I was pleasantly surprised. Microsoft has some work to do and they know it. They had a humble and confident swagger. This morning it hit me. This is the browser war playing ...
Beyond the Press Release – Announcing Startup CEO Posts – Transparency and Direct Messaging
Today we are launching an experiment. Starting today startup CEO’s can post their opinion, vision, and their "angle" on the market they are going after. Why? Over the past few months we’ve noticed that startup CEOs wanted to get their message out about their vision and value proposition in a way not dependent on begging ...
Mobile Product Strategy – Get To Market First As A Priority -Mobile Fragmentation Discussion
In a post by Richard Wong from Accel Partners he talks about and shares his opinion on the Mobile space specifically fragmentation. It’s a solid post worth reading. I agree with most of it except Ray’s point about unifying force that he says will never come. Mobile Innovation Cycle I’ve talked about our mobile innovation ...
Exclusive Interview Founder of Juniper Networks Pradeep Sindhu on Future of Cloud and Mobile Networks
At Mobile World Congress #mwc10 Juniper Networks Social Event in Barcelona I had a chance to sit down for an hour with the founder of Juniper Networks Pradeep Sindhu. We talked about network theory in media and in mobile applications as well as the changes in the networking systems. This was the first time that ...
Google Should Buy Skype – Skype Launches App for Nokia Smartphones and Ovi Store
Hey Google, it’s 2010 and this is your wake up call. Buy Skype. If I were at Google corp dev I’d be running those numbers now. Get cracking Google. More on that below back to the news at hand. Today, Skype is announcing that they are making Skype available to more smartphone users – hello ...
Letter From Twitter’s Biz Stone – MicroUpdates From The CoFounder
Here is a letter from Twitter CoFounder Biz Stone. I’m calling it the ‘micro-updates’ to communicate to their community. This is a great sign on top of a good week where Twitter put the stake in the ground and firmly ratifies their commitment to developers. Message microupdate from @biz Biz Stone Hi there, In the ...
Mobile Innovation = Data; Why Millennial Media Was SMART in Buying TapMetrics
Mobile World Congress (#mwc10) was a great trip last week. One thing was crystal clear mobile everything (networking gear, operators, developers, devices, and services) is all about applications. In previous years Mobile World Congress was about the mobile Internet, but this year it was all about apps. This is why it’s exciting to see Millennial ...
Slideshare Founders Talk About Entrepreneurship
Jonathan Boutelle and Rashmi Sinha, founders of the presentation-sharing site SlideShare, describe the entrepreneurial process as a series of pivots. Boutelle explains it’s not just a jump, but an evolving growth of stages that leads to an idea that can start a business. From there, Sinha says that focused execution keeps the vision moving forward. ...
Bang Bang: Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner HP Returns Fire With Deal with Qlogic
Update: Immediately following my report Cisco put out an official statement on the terminating their relationship with HP. Reason: conflicting visions. I got confirmation today from someone inside Cisco that an internal memo went out announcing that Cisco is dumping HP as a certified partner. Concurrent with the Cisco internal memo HP makes a move ...
Innovation Is Going Mobile – Skype and Verizon Change The Game
I’ve arrived at Mobile World Congress and the news has hit about Skype and Verizon teaming up for unlimited calls on Verizon’s smartphone. I’ll be seeing the Skype folks tomorrow for a briefing, but the news is awesome. Here is the news (note this was a joint release by both companies): At the 2010 Mobile ...