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Reality Check: Smartphones turning into a PC-like business are heading toward commodity

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Smartphone sales have been a high profit area for handset makers and wireless network operators, but like...

Reality Check: SMS offers great way for brands to reach consumers

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Mobile LBS is gaining momentum in commercial markets over the next several years. Juniper Research...

Reality Check: Where Facebook went wrong on privacy

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The topic of privacy and Facebook has been a hot one. Many individuals, including myself, are very...

Reality Check: Prepaid-a-Palooza – is it for real this time?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.There have been a host of stories in the past week on prepaid services, and we touched...

Reality Check: Now is the time for cable quad play

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Convergence of communications and entertainment services, a hot-button topic for years, often is pushed aside for consideration...

Reality Check: Phone store best practices from retailers in other industries

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.There is no doubt that the competition is fierce in the global wireless industry, and in most...

Reality Check: Three discoveries from first quarter earnings

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Greetings to the Reality Check faithful. This week many pieces of the earnings puzzle were filled in,...

Reality Check: Listen to what he says

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This industry provides plenty of topics, and I was torn this week whether to focus on earnings...

Reality Check: Retail wireless trends

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In my final of four guest columns, I’d like to discuss wireless retail trends – how evolution...

Reality Check: What to make of Verizon and AT&T earnings

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.   There's a lot to cover this week and a short amount of reading time, so...

Reality Check: What to make of Verizon and AT&T earnings

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.   There's a lot to cover this week and a short amount of reading time, so...

Reality Check: Mobile innovation: A vision for 2020

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.What will the mobile world look like in 10 years? It's certainly a question worth pondering. It's...

Reality Check: Ramifications of polarization in the mobile software platform market

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As has been well established in this column and elsewhere, the mobile marketplace is undergoing rapid change...

Reality Check: Three headlines no telecom CEO wants to read

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.There’s going to be a lot to talk about earnings in the next few days, and, despite...

Reality Check: Organization benefiting from the mobile Web

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.When you’re thinking about advanced technology and progressive Web adoption, what type of firm or organization do...

Reality Check: The “Julius Jolt” – It's not Comcastic

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.That earthquake you felt last week – no, not the “Baja Bumper” (7.2 Richter scale) that hit...

Reality Check: Borrowing brilliance for the SIP journey

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In my previous Reality Check columns I’ve written about the benefits of SIP and how they can...

Reality Check: Going green

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In my last column, we touched on how supply chain management increasingly is offering opportunities for companies...

Reality Check: Wireless earnings and Neapolitan ice cream

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.It’s hard to believe we are six days into April. But we are, and, as most of...

Reality Check: CTIA – Any new news?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The spring CTIA has a very tough role – trying to be new and different on the...

Reality Check: Keys to a connected future

The next frontier in the evolution of communications technology is generally considered to be embedded mobile connectivity – the use of embedded cellular radio technology to seamlessly link devices ranging from e-readers, to computers, to cameras, to medical devices, home appliances and automobiles. ...

Reality Check: Making mobile Linux work

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The variety of Linux-oriented initiatives and activities in the mobile industry, including the recent announcement from Nokia...

@CTIA Reader Forum: America pushes the boundaries of broadband

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Reality Check: Shopping and services on the mobile-touch Web

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Mobile devices have provided consumers with an easy way to purchase items on the go. While mobile...