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This is interesting:

Google is giving away free adwords ads to the people patronizing businesses using their Mountain View wireless network.

So they are finally tipping their hand’s This is how the “free” network is going to work See, it is not “free” the advertisers are going to pay for it.

if ((Cost of network – (Revenue per user * number of users)) > 0) {

wireless = “free”;

}

I can sort that out.

Reporo just won the Mobile Monday Global London Peer Awards. They have, admittedly, an interesting application, somehow including(through Jabber?) the various and sundry Instant Messenger clients. It also appears to pull RSS feeds of various things, including football scores. All of this sounds great. I mean, who wouldn’t want to IM with people from their phones (personally, well, me… but there is no accounting for taste, I suppose).

There is also free text messages within their network.

That is pretty cool.

However, and I hate to be the fly in the ointment, but I tried to install it on two different phones and was not able to do so. (T-Mobile MDA and a Nokia 6280)

I can’t get the application to run on either of these phones, and I can’t really invest more time in making it work. However, I understand the myriad complications of developing for mobile devices.

There are thousands of devices, dozens of operating systems, hundreds of different operators and content providers by the gazillions. Combining these factors creates a technical soup that is difficult to wade through. I’m still curious, which phones did Reporo work on?

It looks like to save money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, some companies are moving back to private rather than publicly listed.

It is a bit of an anathema to the the late ’90s’, when everyone wanted to go public.

Not it seems like the smart money is un-IPO-ing themselves.

It looks like the Congress is getting closer to democratizing data and eliminating the digital divide.

Damn liberals.

This new Google cropland looks like a great place to plant some Elephant Grass or Switch Grass to power a server room.

Hmm….

Watch this space!

This great article about the forthcoming swap to WiFi from traditional phone broadband. That sounds crazy. Traditional phone broadband. Yes, it is so hackneyed and trite. And a few years old.

Anyway, the smart money is starting to support wifi and wimax for mobile devices. It makes fiscal sense.

In a terrible case of me-too-ism, BlackBerry has come out with another version of the Pearl.

Except for one very important feature change.

It’s white!!!

Clap, clap.

How embarrassing, just a few days after the new iPhone, BlackBerry shows they aren’t afraid of pandering to style conscious to save their business.

I wonder if Penelope Cruz is going to buy one.

The mobile phone operator 3 has ended roaming charges in 7 countries.
This is a great step for mobile phones and 3 is really leading the way in the pervasiveness of mobile connections. Bravo.

Now the EU just needs to set price caps on the limits in EU countries.

It is hardly fair that you can be charged for using the same mobile within neighboring EU nations,.

I just got back from the Mobile Monday London event.

Some of the speakers were fairly interesting, although a bit too much stammering and faffing went on.  A bit more get up and go could be useful.

There were a couple things I found interesting.  They were talking about a Bubble 2.0.

I’m not really sure what that means, and I think that perhaps they should have agreed on what a “Bubble” is before they went into whether or not it was one.

Are some people going to make bad investments? Of course. Doesn’t that mean there is a Bubble, no… there are a lot of fools.  Some of which maybe didn’t learn anything from the last tech “bubble”, or “correction” or whatever you want to call it.

Are companies like CMGI popping up? No, that makes me think there is no Bubble.  That was a horrible idea.

But what about YouTube and MySpace?  They don’t exactly have sane and rational valuations…
But I really think they are one-offs.  There is too much VC money sitting on the sidelines to be hollering about a Bubble.  The fact that it is a topic of discussion shows that there are a lot of shitty ideas.
Most of the companies that demo-ed were… not surprisingly, crap.

I liked AdItOn  and I thought Reporo had some good ideas, if they were a bit narrow in focus.

The rest of them sucked.