Nokia’s strategic reaction to the iPhone

Extract: “The key to how the iPhone would fundamentally affect the mobile industry was always going to be how it forced innovation at the incumbent players. The latest example is Nokia’s bold step to buy its partners out of their shares of Symbian, make it free for developers to develop on, and free to handset [...]

The power of useless communication

Loving a new thread I’ve been pursuing this morning. It starts with Nokia trying to become a content provider (again) and ends with a proper view of why letting people talk absolute bunkum with each other is the key to digital gold. See if you can follow this: 1. Nokia launches Ovi – a new [...]

Publishers will make the same mistakes on mobile

Hopefully the last post on mobile for a bit – time to move on. But, before that, a quick view on how publishers look increasingly likely to make the same mistakes in mobile as they have on the web. We say that, given mobiles will be defined differently from the PC-based internet only by the [...]

Media Quake moves and returns

Well the Circus Street blog is sleeping now while we work out how to integrate what we all think with our forthcoming new site so I’m back on here with random musings. Also, having enjoyed working on WordPress on the Circus blog, I’ve moved Media Quake over here. Finding it more flexible, better looking and [...]

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