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Does Your Business Need a Mobile App?

January 13, 2012 by Vipool Prajapati with 188 views

 Recently, New York Times reported that the one millionth mobile app went into the market. Are mobile apps now as much a requirement for a business as a web presence and a 1-800 number? Thinking along the lines of below questions may help determine if your business really needs a mobile app:Know Your CustomerForemost, and as obvious... [read more]

Top 10 2010 Social Media Predictions

December 22, 2009 by Tac Anderson with 214 views

My Best Guess Following yesterdays post on 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years, here are my Top 10 2010 Social Media Predictions. Unlike yesterday’s post, where I was looking at the bigger trends that would shape our space, this is a little more like playing fantasy football. I’m really just guessing. Facebook goes public at the... [read more]

Will Android blow iPhone OS away?

November 6, 2009 by bmagierski with 163 views

Here is an interesting post from Chris Dannen on FastCompany.com on Android vs. iPhone OS. While he misses the entire point on the 100k+ apps in the iPhone apps store, he does make a compelling point about the future of productivity with mobile + cloud computing going forward. However, the apps store can be overblown to a... [read more]

More (Too Much?) Free from Google: Turn-By-Turn

October 29, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 290 views

Yesterday, Google announced something stunning: free turn-by-turn directions for Android 2.0 to be first available shortly on the Droid phones.  It is stunning because the previously cheapest software only alternatives were apps such as Navigon ($89.99) and TomTom ($99.99) for the iPhone (as an aside, stand-alone GPS devices with... [read more]

If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad

October 18, 2009 by Chris Dixon with 143 views

I carry around an iPhone and a Blackberry Tour. I know that’s ridiculous. The iPhone is a great device on an awful network; the Tour is an awful device on a great network. If the rumors are true and the Verizon “Droid” is a great device on a great network, I’ll be the first in line to get one. But for the wireless ecosystem as a whole,... [read more]

A Big Week For The Mobile Web

October 18, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 135 views

When I use the word "mobile web," I am not referring to the web running in mobile browsers, although I understand that is what the words have come to mean. I believe that mobile devices are bringing web services into our pockets and purses, onto restaurant tables and bars, and into schools and stadiums. I am not particularly concerned... [read more]

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