Ericsson and Akamai Team for Mobile CDN

Ericsson and Akamai Technologies have announced an "exclusive strategic alliance" focused on bringing to market mobile cloud acceleration solutions aimed at improving end-user Internet experiences such as mobile ecommerce, enterprise applications and internet content.

The companies will jointly develop solutions for the fast-growing market of content and applications delivered to mobile devices. Working with Ericsson, the content and applications already being accelerated over the Internet by Akamai will now also be accelerated over mobile broadband.

Ericsson and Akamai establish exclusive strategic alliance to create mobile cloud acceleration solutions - Ericsson

Real Issues with Broadband

The thing about "problems" is that you have to know when a problem has been largely solved, substantially solved or is so close to being solved that one has to move on to tackle the next set of problems. Internet access and broadband are, in many ways, those sorts of problems. Availability is less and less a problem. Redesigning life and business to take advantage of the changes is where the real work awaits.

The Social Media “Formula”

“Advertising doesn’t work,” one sometimes hears, and is true, at least some of the time, largely because targeting is so difficult. The way people have expressed this is that "half my investment is wasted; I just don't know which half."

Social media typically is seen as a nearly-free way to create earned media results. But sooner or later, you'll start to hear people complaining that "social media doesn't work." That shouldn't be surprising. To the extent that social media works, it is because the speakers have something to say, that people are willing to listen to. That takes effort.

The content can either be something people cannot find someplace else, content that seems to express matters better than can be found elsewhere, or gathers enough of the "good stuff" that people can get to it quickly, without having to work so hard. It's almost the same classic rules that have governed "journalism" for decades.

The Social Media “Formula” : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum

Mobile Banking Grows 200% in South Korea

In 2010, use of mobile phones for financial transactions and mobile banking in South Korea grew 200 percent. A Bank of Korea survey also shows that by September 2010, some 1.4 million people were registered for smartphone mobile banking.

The Financial Supervisory Service reports that in 2008 44 billion U.S. dollars worth of banking transactions were made using mobile phones, while the first nine months of last year $79 billion dollars worth of transactions occurred.

Arirang | Korea for the World, The World for Korea - Arirang.co.kr

Google's Take on Mobile Advertising

Survey Suggests 8% of Verizon iPhone Buyers Switched from AT&T

A survey of 40 Verizon iPhone 4 buyers on launch day found that just eight percent were previously AT&T customers, compared to 18 percent with Sprint and 13 percent with T-Mobile.

The survey, conducted by analyst Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray analyst, polled users in New York and Minneapolis. Of those polled, 63 percent indicated they are already Verizon customers. Some 18 percent switched from Sprint and 13 percent switched from T-Mobile.

Read more here.

New Devices, New Behaviors

User behavior when on a smartphone is quite different from behavior on a traditional device.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner Mary Meeker says nearly half of all smartphone usage represents new activity, such as navigation, game playing, social networking or use of  other non-traditional applications.

About 12 percent of activity is use of the web or web apps. About seven minutes a day is spent checking or interacting with email. About 32 percent of time is spent using voice or text apps.