Paradigm Shifts: The iPhone and Android
The iPhone is the first of a series of devices – soon to include Google’s Android -- that move beyond the “smart phone” designation to become true mobile computing platforms.  How will this new class of devices impact the types of applications consumers and businesses use and the competitive landscape for mobile communications? How will they interface with PCs, TVs and other electronics products?
 
WiFi and WiMax: A New Wireless Eco-System
WiFi will soon be a standard component of most mobile phones, making low-cost VOIP phone calls and 4G applications a reality for mobile subscribers. WiMax will extend those capabilities to big swathes of the cellular networks. How must the mobile business adapt?
 
Mobile Social Networks
A report by Informa Telecoms estimated earlier this year that more than 50 million people, or about 2.5% of the world’s mobile phone users, are already involved in mobile social networks. Location-detection is a critical component to dedicated mobile social networks such as Gypsii, Bliim and MyGamma outside the U.S. In the U.S., mobile networks have thus far been largely extensions of of popular existing networks like Facebook, MySpace and Friendster. What does the future hold?
 
GPS Arrives
Long in gestation, GPS is finally going mainstream on mobile phones, prompting a flurry of new applications for mapping, tracking, gaming, community, messaging and marketing. A survey of what’s here and what’s coming.

Next-Gen Mobile Marketing
Mobile campaigns in the U.S. have thus far been stymied by limited bandwidth, underpowered phones and the difficulties of marketing to dozens of platforms across multiple carriers. Do these problems begin to disappear in a world of mobile computing devices?