Mobilestead Blog

The TechCrunchIT post by Vic Gundotra who is the Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products, presents a lot of interesting data: 4 billion global mobile subscribers (ITU, 2009) In 2009 half of all connections to the internet worldwide will come from a mobile phone. (eMarketer, 2008 and 2009) This is a bit hard to believe even for me, as I would imagine that most cellphone customers don't have a data plan. MetroPCS is a prepaid cellphone company which offers fully unlimited ... Read More

Analyst firm Gartner has just released a report that highlights 8 mobile technologies which they predict will impact the mobile industry over the course of the next two years. We picked three that have most potential and utility: Location Awareness Location-sensing technologies (powered by GPS as well as Wi-Fi and triangulation) provide live information on users' locations to enhance mobile social networking applications. Over the next two years, this sort of technology is expected to become more mainstream. There are still a bunch of privacy ... Read More