Colin Gibbs
Increasing smartphone usage and the breakthrough of app stores have given birth to a flurry of activity on the mobile-gaming front from both startups like ngmoco and Zynga and major media brands such as Disney, ESPN and MTV Networks. Which makes me wonder how many of the entrenched players are living on borrowed time — and what they can do to stay alive. […]
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Five Companies Join for 2-D Barcode Push 
If the consortium invests heavily in backing Scanbuy's solution -- and that's a big if -- this could help get mobile barcodes off the ground in the U.S. But I'm still skeptical.
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Why Location-Based Spam Ads Will Fail, but also Why LBS-Based Event Ads Will Succeed
All those "Starbucks scenario" models you've heard about that deliver a mobile coupon as you pass the store? Forget 'em. Once again, Tomi Ahonen is spot-on.
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News Corp.: No Plans to Build a Kindle Competitor
A good decision, as Om writes. Now if only the company can figure out how to better monetize its content in the digital era.
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Sprint’s BlackBerry Tour to Sprout Wi-Fi Next Year
Sprint's move to require Wi-Fi in its devices will lure customers. If the first generation of the phone (which launches this weekend) is a hit, a Wi-Fi-enabled version could give the carrier a huge lift.
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I think the real potential here lies not in phones (although Amazon will do well there, too), but in the wide variety of connected devices (like the Kindle) we'll see in the next few years as WiMAX and LTE networks come online.
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