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Mobile Observatory: HTML5 Poised to Conquer the Web World

July 11, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

The Financial Times provides a real world lab test for HTML5. The good news? The predicted outcomes of Antenna’s HTML5 theories are now being observed and substantiated.

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Mobile Observatory: Negotiating Enterprise Wireless Device Costs. Priceless.

March 29, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

Enterprises need to negotiate with ‘alternative’ mobile hardware vendors – Samsung, HP, Motorola, Dell, HTC…and RIM – they ALL want your business. It’s a golden time for enterprises to negotiate volume hardware pricing and take back hardware control.

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Mobile Observatory: Good Mobile Strategies Seek to Engage Users, Keep Them Engaged

March 23, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

It takes more than a mobile app to win over your users, customers and consumers and keep them fully engaged. You need to think in terms of a cohesive and seamless mobile + mobile Web + desktop Web strategy.

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Mobile Observatory: Should Mobile Enterprises be Happy About AT&T Regulatory Gamble? Yes.

March 21, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

As far as I’m concerned this deal needs to be evaluated strictly from a pure bandwidth perspective. Can AT&T + T-Mobile deliver REAL national 4G infrastructure? I think they can, must and will. This – and only this – makes the deal worth it.

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Mobile Observatory: One Volt is All It Takes for High Energy Mobile Security and Management

March 18, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

Beneath the shiny bells and whistles is the boring issue of mobile data security and device management – nothing more than little ticking time bombs…

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Mobile Observatory: Lady Gaga, Charlie Sheen, SEO, Authority & the Mobile Brand

March 14, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

SEO games and the mobile marketplace…will SEO dark arts continue to rule the roost or is it likely that social networking will send SEO dark arts ninjas the way of the Templars? Lady Gaga and Charlie Sheen couldn’t possibly tell you – but they are the hottest of hot key words today and key influencers – they ‘bestow authority’ – as amazing as that may sound.

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Mobile Observatory: WP7,WP8. When Will the Enterprise Get Its Chance to Build Windows Phone Mobile Apps?

March 10, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

Much to the chagrin of enterprise mobile developers, mobile application platform builders, and those of us who exhorted Microsoft to focus on the enterprise with Windows Phone 7, WP7 is a totally consumer-targeted beast.

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Mobile Observatory: Zite, Flipboard, The Daily and Today’s Mobile Publishing Industry

March 9, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

Over my last several posts we’ve traveled from multiple unified wireless platforms, to the fast exploding world of me-centric and we-centric advertising, marketing and sales. What’s next? Mobile publishing, of course. There is so much more to it than an iPad or Android app. Flipboard – very cool. Zite? Possibly cooler than Flipboard. The Daily…eh (it doesn’t belong). Read on…

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