10 Must-Have Mobile Apps for Entrepreneurs

I’m on the go a lot, which means I spend just as much time–if not more–on my phone as I spend on my computer. This would not have been possible even just a few years ago. But luckily, technology has made it easy to be more and more productive with just a smartphone. Here’s a [...]

Mobile 3.0 arrives: How Qualcomm just showed us the future of the cell phone (and why iPhone sucks for this new contextual age)

The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn’t notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did. What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones. Yesterday the Mobile 3.0 world arrived. First mobile was the standard old cell phone. You talked into it. The second mobile era [...]

What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life

A few years ago, Disney World executives were wondering what most captured the attention of toddlers and infants at their theme park and hotels in Orlando, Florida…   But after a couple of hours of close observation, we realized that what most captured the young children’s attention wasn’t Disney-conjured magic. Instead it was their parents’ [...]

Real cost of the smartphone revolution

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards The problem with living through a revolution is that you’ve no idea how things will turn out. So it is with the revolutionary transformation of our communications environment driven by the internet and mobile phone technology. Strangely, our problem is not that we are short of data about what’s going [...]

Facebook could pay over $1 billion for Opera: analysts

Opera Software shares soared over 20 percent on Tuesday on talk Facebook Inc. was in discussion to buy the firm, while analysts said competition from Google and others could push the price tag of any deal over $1 billion. Shares of Oslo-listed Opera, coveted for its advanced mobile phone software technology, jumped as much as [...]

Wildfire Adds YouTube Video Contest Capabilities

Via Scoop.it – Internet Billboards Internet News Social firm also considering mobile video possibilities… Via www.adweek.com

Mobile Devices: Powering What Happens in an Internet Minute

Mobile devices and constant connectivity are drastically impacting marketing and business strategy. Want to know what happens on the Internet in one minute? Via www.v3im.com

Google+ is now coming to Google Voice

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Google made a brief announcement today stating that Google Voice would be getting Google+ integration. On the official Google Voice blog, we read that the two services will be linked by bringing information from your social Google+ circles into your Google Voice telephony account. “To help make it even easier for [...]

The Mobile Social Audience is Evolving – Here’s What’s Happening [Infographic]

Via Scoop.it – Contentmarketing This gorgeous infographic tells us how the mobile audience is evolving and what mobile users are doing on their smartphones.   Here are some highlights:     **Mobile Marketing: 86% of mobile users are watching TV while using a mobile phone    **200+ million (1/3 of all users) access Facebook from [...]

Former Homeless Woman Becomes Twitter Celebrity

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Alone and homeless on the streets of Chicago, AnnMarie Walsh found comfort in Twitter. “It feels so good to know there is someone out there,” she said. “I could Tweet and there was always someone there listening.” Walsh was homeless for six years before she met a case worker at a [...]

Portable Power: The Progress of Mobile Business Intelligence

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards In early 2008, just under 20 percent of companies were delivering business intelligence data to mobile devices, but nearly 80 percent had a keen interest in doing so. When the recession hit, investment in mobile business intelligence product development slowed dramatically. What didn’t slow was the development of new mobile hardware. [...]

Alec Baldwin Deactivates Twitter Account After Airline Spat

Alec Baldwin has deactivated his Twitter account in the wake of a Tuesday meltdown on an American Airlines flight—which was reportedly related to his playing of Words With Friends.The @alecbaldwin Twitter account currently has no listed tweets, and it has been renamed Deactivated.The actor was removed from an AA flight in Los Angeles after a [...]