Model Of The Year: Free... With A Catch by Steve Smith

Here he goes waxing nostalgic for the old days of wireless. Yes, but it is still worthwhile putting the fast evolution in mobile into some historical perspective, no matter how short that history has been. I recall a day in the mid-2000s when carriers went a-courting the name media brands, trying to get their wares into the burgeoning portals of content. The pitch went something like this. Unlike the Web, which is decimating your old media business models, mobile is a platform where people are used to paying for goods and services, and better still, where there is a micro-payment ...Read the whole story

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To Share Or Auto-Share? by Mike Bloxham

Facebook users are familiar with those little announcements at the top on the right of your Newsfeed. While this is -- at first glance -- seemingly a kind of sharing most of us enjoy on Facebook every day, it is nothing of the kind. ...More