I'm sure I'm nowhere near the first to remark on this, but it has recently hit me on several levels. CNN just reported a moment ago that American newspapers are in severe trouble, partly because of the economic downturn yes, which means less people buy newspapers, but also less advertisers h...

The Mobile World Congress has just ended in Barcelona and the tech press is full of stories about how the internet is now headed to a pocket near you. There were big stars in Barcelona peddling the future is mobile story, from the rapper Will I Am telling of how music is going mobile, to the actor K...

It was the biggest gamble in the economic history of mankind. Not my words, that was how The Economist considered the roll of the dice, that the 3G investment was to the mobile telecoms industry when they wrote about the giant 3G licence auctions and (then) pending 3G infrastructure investments, tha...

We follow digital convergence here at the Communities Dominate blog and digital money is another of those opportunities. Jim O'Reilly and I discussed how advanced South Korea was in this area, in one chapter out of our book Digital Korea in 2007. At that time we reported that all three mobile ph...

We do an annual look into the size of the mobile industry here at the Communities Dominate blog. So its time to review the growth of mobile and report on the technology that has 4 Billion subscribers. Recognizing that the world has about 6.6 Billion people, it means there is a mobile phones su...

Caught a great article at the BBC news site about gaming and other mass media, where they quoted Activision CEO Mike Griffith as saying "Video games are poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead." Thank you to our friend Fredrik Wengelin for finding the article...

Its only days from the inaugration of President Obama. Us technologists have been observing the ongoing "Battle of the Blackberry" to see who wins out. Can the most powerful man on the planet get his way and keep his connectivity. Do Communities Dominate also over his personal sercurity ma...

The start of the year 2009 marks the tenth year anniversary for Nokia becoming the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer. In that time the mobile phone has amassed an amazing array of abilities. While doing so, the mobile phone has also been able to become the focal point for digital converg...

So I did a lot more thinking about the computer. This is a follow-up to the story that Nokia is now legitimately considered a computer maker, not for all phones, but for its smartphones (as is Apple for the iPhone, RIM for the Blackberry etc all smartphone makers). And I reported that when smartphon...

So yes, its time for yet another instance of mobile phones taking surprising victories in the digital convergence battle. I reported the general trend in my previous posting, and the conclusion that when only considering "smartphones" - even by that tight measure of these new "pocket ...