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Reality Check: Messaging’s vast contributions to society today and tomorrow

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 no question as to the explosive growth of mobile messaging, giving those of us in the...

Reality Check: Business applications, you are clear to land

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 from Kansas City, home of the baseball team with the best batting average in the majors...

Reality Check: Earnings spotlight on capital spending

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 from the 4th of July remote location(s) of this week’s Sunday Brief. (Note: if...

Reality Check (Special Edition): The Kin kill

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.Most of my blogs are chock full of numbers, trends, analyses. I like it that way. However,...

Reality Check: Earnings spotlight on consumer data and enterprise growth

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.We are quickly approaching the end of the second quarter, and the industry isn’t without some headlines (by...

Reality Check: SMS is dead … long live SMS

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.Only a few years ago SMS was considered by many as a declining technology that was destined...

Reality Check: Blazing the trail to long-term messaging success

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.From its humble beginning as a 160-character, text-based novelty, mobile messaging has exploded in popularity to now play...

Reality Check: Searching for the Android Disneyland

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.I have spent a week with my new Sprint Evo. Admittedly, outside of the small screen size,...

Reality Check: Rethinking telecom – your strategic planning primer

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.For those of you who casually follow the industry, we are entering (or in some cases, have...

Reality Check (Special Edition): Why AT&T changed their data pricing

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.I am taking a brief respite from my start-up focus to weigh in on the AT&T announcement...

Reality Check: Communications overload – solved

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.Last week, Jim did a very thorough job describing the intricacies (and providing an excellent analysis) of the...

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: 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: 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: 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...