So, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine a while back. I had called her for some insight into the mind of cable operators and how they think about CE (consumer electronics) in the home. The conversation digressed, as it usually does, into the fringe area of how consumers use CE to access and consume content. Her argument was that it is expensive for a cable operator to continually provide set-top boxes with hard disk space in the form of a digital video recorder (DVR) to customers....

Last week I outlined a series of developments in the wireless space that I believe pointed to "the formation of a viable and sustainable mobile platform that is able to deliver content and services that will elicit a positive consumer experience." I wanted to re-visit this, if only to elaborate on some of the finer points of developing successful go-to-market strategies.

I started off this writing adventure with a declarative technology manifesto. One of the technologies that I identified was wireless. The following is just an example of some of the developments in this sector.

Now that I have your attention, the endowment effect, simply defined, is the theory that people will place a higher value on objects they own relative to objects they do not....