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March 30 2012
by Todd Hixon
Windows Phone Beats iPhone by 2015? Not Likely!
Windows Phone jumping to No. 2 in smartphone market by 2015? | ZDNet. As a blogger, I appreciate the need to say something that gets attention. But this prediction is a big stretch. It overlooks the huge importance of apps, media content, and consumer cloud services in the smart phones market: areas where Nokia and ...
January 26 2012
by Scott Johnson
No Better Time, Ever, To Be An Entrepreneur
I am often asked “what is new and exciting” by pretty much anyone that knows what I do for a living. And it is a great question that I relish answering – usually. Of late, however, I have been responding in a way that needs polish. I will say “smartphones” or “Health IT” or “the ...
March 29 2011
by Todd Hixon
Android Will Hold Its Own
The Verizon iPhone and recent strong success of Apple’s iOS on multiple fronts raises the question: can Android really compete with iOS? (E.g., WSJ: “Verizon iPhone: A Threat to Android?”) Although sales and installed base of Android devices have passed the iPhone, some argue that happened because carriers representing 70% of the U.S. market had ...
January 28 2011
by Scott Johnson
Mobile Clicks Are Garbage!
Most mobile advertisement banner clicks are accidental. The Harris group published a study yesterday saying this. Surprised? I’m not! Has anyone actually clicked a mobile banner on purpose? Really? I can’t imagine doing so – the experience is so bad. I think Shakespeare might have been thinking of mobile banner ads when he quipped “It is ...
January 18 2011
by Scott Johnson
Mobile Monetization 2.0
Mobile monetization 2.0 is going to happen in 2011. Marketing budgets against mobile are showing up in the hundreds of millions, some new monetization schemes (CPL and CPD) are paying good eCPMs, 4G is coming, and this is all really great news for entrepreneurs and mobile app publishers as everyone everywhere taps into mobile apps. ...
January 11 2011
by Todd Hixon
Watersheds: Real & Wannabe
This is part 2 of my observations from CES 2011. Year of the Tablet: Not Quite Yet The media proclaimed 2011 the year of the tablet, and obedient to their editors’ direction, reporters found many tablets on the floor, e.g., HuffPost: 11 New Tablets You’ve Probably Never Heard Of From CES 2011. In truth, the ...
January 10 2011
by Todd Hixon
Rule The Air
CES 2011 is over, I write with relief as I await the plane home. Observations follow; this is part 1 of 2. It’s So Big! Various reports put attendance at between 140,000 and 160,000, up from 120,000 in 2010. The display floor was so vast (36 acres) and crowded that it’s hard to find what ...
October 18 2010
by Todd Hixon
Europe Lags In Mobile
I’m just back from 12 days in Europe, visiting Positano and Rome, Italy and Munich and Frankfurt, Germany. I’m struck by how much Europe lags the U.S. in mobile. This is a small arbitrary sample: 3 major cities and an upscale beach resort in 2 countries. But, the visible difference is stark. 1. The data ...
September 24 2010
by Todd Hixon
Robots Romp at MIT: Notes From EmTech10
MIT held its annual Emerging Technologies conference this week. It’s an MIT conference rather than a venture conference: many of the the speakers were from major tech corporations (Qualcomm, Microsoft) or academics. Innovations from corporate labs, university labs, and start-ups had equal prominence. It was not about raising money: no explicit pitches, few VCs there. ...
September 14 2010
by Todd Hixon
Is Android The Next Windows?
Is history repeating itself? Recently the monthly connect rate for Android phones passed the iPhone in the U.S., and many analysts believe Android phones in use will outnumber iPhones early next year. Apple popularized the personal computer with the launch of the Apple II in 1977. Microsoft, IBM, and Intel followed in 1981 with what ...
