Coming to Screens (Very) Near You!

In October of 2010, Disney signed a deal with Apalya TV in India to bring Disney Channel shows to mobile phones. With an estimated 150 million TV sets and 700-800 million cell phones, it’s not hard to understand why Disney decided to bring their shows to the hands of their viewers. [...]

HTML5, It’s Cool Cause Apple Says So

Years ago, there was a program developed that has since penetrated the hearts and jobs of graphic designers worldwide. Adobe Flash. As Flash was being adopted, upgraded and loved, a new platform for advertising was growing exponentially: mobile. With such an immense platform, the world wasn’t sure that Flash could succeed. The world may not [...]

Apple is breaking up with Quattro Wireless!

Apple is not accepting anymore mobile ad campaigns and are closing down current ad campaigns through the Quattro Wireless ad network. Back in January, Apple purchased Quattro Wireless for a cool $275 million and it seems like they are already over the ad network after 8 months.  With so much money invested into their new [...]

The Business of Luxury and Mobile

Recently, I was at a Financial Times Conference that focused on the business of luxury goods, examining trading research for my investment fund. One of the more interesting quotes included the following:

“Digital connectedness is becoming too much of a burden. Disconnected will become the new luxury”
-William Powers

As the resident horologist for Team Textopoly, I began to [...]

away we go…with mobile

I tend to travel quite a bit both professionally as well as personally with my wife and small children. There are a few constants that stay with me – my smartphone and my mini laptop. While my mini with WiFi card allows me access quick flight and hotel information, sometimes my cell phone has to [...]

A place to suck up your data plan!

Just announced today, all Starbucks in the U.S. will provide free, one click, no registration WiFi! This is great, and I for one will take advantage as I enjoy my $8 coffeeish drink while my cloths absorb the aroma of burnt coffee.

Seriously, I am pretty excited about this. This will hopefully help further the use [...]

Palm WebOS Designer Goes to Google Android

If there is one thing that all Palm WebOS user’s can agree on, its that the user experience is flawless. The OS is easy to navigate, intuitive and clean. These are all characteristics that Android users have complained about – even with Android Froyo 2.2.

Android users will be pleased to hear that Matias Duarte, [...]

Adobe Flashes Past Palm … onto Google

So I am sure you have all heard of the heated debate regarding Adobe Flash for mobile phones by now (see Apple’s homepage for Steve Job’s jabs at Flash). I think it is safe to say we won’t see Flash on the iPhone anytime soon…

But, forget about the iPhone – what about everyone else!? [...]

You say iPad… I say iRAD!

Last month Naushad had a little surprise for the office. There sitting on a desk was the newest toy from Apple, a brand new iPad. Sure I had my doubts and pompous eye rolls as Naushad handed the surprisingly thin and sleek device to me. Really what’s an iPad got to offer? Isn’t just an [...]

Apple me this. . .

Will it? Won’t it? What will AT&T do about it? It’s Spring time and the buzz of what Apple will do, and who it will do it to is in the air. The WSJ could only point to ‘the people who were briefed’ when they delivered their article on a much anticipated CDMA version of [...]