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DOJ Puts Breaks on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

The DOJ deciding to challenge the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is a significant announcement but not necessarily surprising. The part of the argument that I buy is that ”AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.” Yes, T-Mobile is cheap, but there are even lower cost options [ READ MORE ]

Webcast: 5 Essential Steps to Mobile Strategy Success

Join me for a webcast on August 11 at Noon ET/9am PT/6pm CET with our client Amadeus to talk about the latest trends in mobile development! Mobile technology is the center of customer interaction for competitive businesses today; spurred by the always-connected customer, mobile has become the primary channel for business and consumer communication. While pushing [ READ MORE ]

Grandpa Box

Dilbert is still funny [ READ MORE ]

7 Stories in 7 Days: Week of 7-25-11

Well you may notice the new headline. Trying to find 10 stories that were really interesting was sometimes a challenge. And sometimes it made it hard to then find one or two others to give a little more perspective on. So I’m shrinking the list.  Here we go: I’m not sure why I’m so riveted by [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-18-11

Concur continues its investment binge with $5M for Yapta and integrates the air and hotel price tracking tool into TripIt. Isis, the carrier-led near field communication (NFC) mobile payment platform has signed up Visa, MasterCard and American Express along with original partner Discover, who will join the carrier initiative when it launches next year. Interesting development, [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-11-11

As an NY Islander’s fan I’ll always remember legendary NY sportcaster Bill Mazer saying “7:11, lucky numbers for the good guys”, in a sports special about the Islanders winning their first Stanley Cup over the Philadelphia Flyers on an overtime goal by Bobby Nystrom (assists by Lorne Henning and Wayne Merrick).  But on to the [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 6-27-11

This seemed to be one of the more interesting weeks I’ve seen in quite a while. Yahoo makes a big move in Big Data, Google+ launches, Homeaway IPO’s and much more. Good stuff, take a read through. They’re dancing in the streets of Austin…well that isn’t so out of the ordinary on Sixth Street. But after [ READ MORE ]

Why Adobe Owes Microsoft Big Time

April 8, 2014. That’s the date that Microsoft has set to end all support of Windows XP. Yes, XP will almost be old enough to be Bar-Mitzvah’d at that point.  Oy vey. That date is important to mobile developers because XP is the boat anchor that is holding back full-throated supported for HTML5-based apps. Managing support of [ READ MORE ]

I’m with Coco: O’Brien Mocks Airlines over Bag and Change Fees

As we head into the holiday weekend, I thought it was appropriate to lighten the mood a bit.  Perhaps you saw it already, but here’s a pretty funny skit of TBS’ Conan O’Brien interviewing “Delta EVP, Tony Kent” after reports surfaced that airlines made $5.7 billion in baggage and reservation change fees in 2010. The [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Rackspace CTO at HITEC

Last week I had the opportunity to interview John Engates, CTO of Rackspace after his appearance on the Cloud Supersession at HITEC in Austin, TX. In the interview we cover a topics such as: Compare and contrast Cloud v. Virtualization strategies Advice for customers struggling with how to justify ROI for the cloud when they have existing [ READ MORE ]

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