Articles from Gary Kim (Garykim.Denver@Gmail.Com)

1. Zynga Is Launching Its Own Social Network Explore IP Carrier (Oct 11 2011) People who weren't so keen on Google+ now will have "Zynga Direct" as one more social network to contend with. The first component of Zynga Direct is a sign-in platform codenamed Project Z. It will launch later this year, Business Insider reports. It's quite a rational move, though. Zynga now is completely dependent on Facebook, and Zynga Direct should reduce that reliance. Zynga Direct is a more general name describing Zynga's new ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Facebook   Zynga

2. Sprint Details LTE Plans As Clearwire’s Decline Accelerates | mocoNews Explore IP Carrier (Oct 11 2011) Marketing To say there is a bit of instability in much of the U.S. mobile backhaul market would be an understatement. After announcing it would buy about $20 billion worth of Apple iPhones, whether it can sell them or not, Sprint announced that it would expedite the building of its new Long Term Evolution network this summer, with completion by the end of 2013, a breath-taking time table. $20 billion worth of iPhones Sprint also ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   LTE   Sprint Nextel   Dish Network

3. What is gigabit broadband good for? Explore IP Carrier (Oct 11 2011) “If you put a gigabit in people’s homes they will be inspired to find new ways to use it," says Kevin Lo, Head of Google’s fiber access program. "We have no idea why you need a gigabit today, but when we all had dial up you could not possibly imagine watching video over them." "It’s not about doing email faster, it’s about doing those new things that you don’t do ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Google   Tivo

4. Wireless Broadband Incremental or a Substitute? Explore IP Carrier (Oct 11 2011) A recent analysis suggests more people are getting their broadband from wireless providers in the Twin Cities and fewer are using traditional services like cable and DSL, according to a new study by St. Paul-based ID Insight, which found that wireless broadband (both from mobile companies and the Minneapolis Wi-Fi network operated by US Internet rose 7.5 percent in the 12 months ending in March. Wireless broadband taking bigger slice of local market To ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   DSL   Sprint Nextel   Comcast

5. Hollywood Tries One More Way to Embrace Streaming Without Cannibalizing Legacy Business Explore IP Carrier (Oct 11 2011) Lots of people are hoping that streaming and over the top delivery of professional content will somehow lead not only to more "on demand" access, but somehow lead to lower prices. That might happen, but not if content owners and distributors have success creating "sell through" requirements that link streaming to purchase of legacy products.The "Ultraviolet" initiative is one more example. Some have dubbed the streaming service the “Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Disney

6. Marketing is Business Driver for Mobile Wallets Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) Applications , Marketing Possibly the most meaningful impact that Google Wallet will have is on the advertising and marketing communities. Google offers will be Google’s application for deals, coupons, and offers that will inform you of promotions based on your location. In that sense, the business case for mobile wallet apps will be location based advertising, the ability to view and compare the deals of local vendors, and coupons that do not have to be cut out ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Google   Google Wallet

7. Is Information Technology Like Railroads? If So, What Does That Mean? Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) For those of you who believe the Internet will be a transforming technology, it might also be helpful to keep in mind that such transformations can be hugely unsettling, and take quite a long time to become obvious. Still, there is something out of character with job growth coming out of the last handful of recoveries from recessions. What we historically expect to see is a sort of "shark fin" pattern of job growth. Since ... (Read Full Article)

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8. U.S. Consumers Not Convinced they Need Mobile Payments Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) A new survey finds that most U.S. consumers are not eagerly awaiting mobile payments. Lightspeed Research surveyed 10,000 credit card customers, including some 2,400 smartphone users, and found that half of those with smartphones described the ability to make mobile payments as "very unimportant" to them. Americans greet mobile payments with a yawn Only 15 percent of those surveyed said mobile payment was very or somewhat important. The findings should come as ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Lightspeed

9. What Kindle Fire Means for Telcos Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) Applications , Marketing The Amazon Kindle Fire launch, with the simultaneous release of three new versions of the Kindle designed more as e-readers, likely illustrates a fundamental change in consumer electronics ecosystems, just as the application ecosystem also has changed around smart phones.Needless to say, network access providers also face the need to create entirely new businesses based on partners of various types, all working within a larger context where devices, applications, commerce, advertising and cloud-based applications ... (Read Full Article)

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10. Intel "Ultrabooks": Not the Way Apple Would Approach a New Category Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) It remains to been seen whether Intel actually can create yet another segment in the mobile device category, but it is going to try with its new "ultrabook" approach to PCs. If ultrabooks fail, it won’t be for lack of research. Intel has long studied what people want in future computer chips and computing devices.  In 2009 the company decided to take a different approach with a project focused on the idea of "performance ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Apple   Macbook Air

11. Managed Services Spending Set To Boom Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) Marketing Small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) in the United States will be spending $7 billion on managed services in 2011, according to Techaisle. Growth will be in double digits over the next several years as well. At the moment, most of those services are related to IT infrastructure, rather than applications, but one would assume that will shift, over time. Managed Services Spending Set To Boom The survey of 2000 SMBs and 600 channel partners in ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Techaisle

12. Why Thought Leadership Matters Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) "Thought leadership" really is important in the business-to-business buying process, says consultant Chris Koch. When we asked buyers how important good ideas are to the buying decision, 58 percent of executive-level buyers (people buying more than $500,000 worth of IT services in a single transaction) say that it is important or critical for making it onto the short list of providers.  More than half of your buyers say that if you can’t demonstrate ... (Read Full Article)

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13. 23 Questions from Google on "Quality" Rankings Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) Without disclosing anything about its algorithms, here are 23 questions Google suggests content creators think about when creating content that Google's algorithms will tend to rank favorably.  The questions are analogous to what Google's algorithms try to do when assessing the "quality" of a page or an article. "Our advice for publishers continues to be to focus on delivering the best possible user experience on your websites and not to focus too much ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google

14. Netflix Reverses Course on Qwikster Explore IP Carrier (Oct 10 2011) Marketing Netflix has decided to reverse course on its plan to separate the "DVD by mail" business from its streaming business. "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs," Netflix now says.  Netflix says it is keeping the new price structure, though. Still, users who want both DVD content and streamed content ... (Read Full Article)

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15. Mobile Payments Will Take 10 Years to Reach 50% of U.S. Households Explore IP Carrier (Oct 8 2011) Marketing Optimists might think mobile payments will be a significant business in as little as two to four years.  Some might argue from history that it will take a decade or so for mobile payments to be adopted by a significant number of users. By "significant" we might say half of households using mobile payments. KPMG survey History suggests why that might be so. After 20 years, the percentage of U.S. households using automatic bill ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Kpmg

16. Facebook on a Mobile Without a Data Plan Explore IP Carrier (Oct 7 2011) Marketing Gemalto is offering feature phone users a way to use Facebook on their mobiles without buying a data plan. The service is not free. Instead, customers are charged a subscription of $1 for a day, $3 for a week, $9 for a month,  for unlimited access to "Facebook for SIM." (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   SMS   Dan York   Facebook

17. Open Range Goes Bankrupt Explore IP Carrier (Oct 7 2011) Open Range Communications has declared bankruptcy. Open Range received about $267 million in loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Utilities Program as part of the "broadband stimulus" program.Open Range had hoped to create a broadband wireless Internet provider whose primary focus was hundreds of un-served and underserved communities across America. Open Range intends to serve over 500 communities, making its services available to approximately six million people in Arkansas ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   U.S. Department of Agriculture   Rural Development Utilities Program

18. Faster Speeds, Greater Consumption Explore IP Carrier (Oct 6 2011) Marketing If new Suddenlink Communications caps on fixed network data consumption bear a reasonable relationship to user behavior, faster access speeds access providers will offer in the future are going to lead to greater consumption. In other words, giving people faster speeds is expected to lead to increased consumption.The company's new pricing caps consumption at 150 Gbytes for access at advertised maximum speeds of 10 Mbps, with typical monthly consumption said to be 12 ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Gbps

19. End Telephone Subsidies, FCC Chairman Says Explore IP Carrier (Oct 6 2011) The overhaul of an "outdated" U.S. Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes telephone service in rural areas will lead to universally available broadband service in the U.S. by the end of the decade, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says. The issue will remain contentious, as rural telcos likely won't be happy no matter what the ultimate outcome. It is fair to note that USF reform has been a problem for decades, and hasn ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Julius Genachowski   Federal Communication Commission   U.S. Federal Communications Commission

20. How an iPad Browser Could Change the Way You Search Explore IP Carrier (Oct 6 2011) Lots of companies have reasons to want to reduce the role "search" plays in helping people find things, for obvious reasons. They compete with Google in some way, so changing the value of traditional search will weaken Google. But end users might have other needs that open the door. Touch screen interfaces might make possible different ways to find information. Carlos Bhola, the founder of a startup called Kikin hopes to replace it with a ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google   Amazon.com

21. Why the Mobile Wallet Might Get More Traction than Mobile Payments Explore IP Carrier (Oct 5 2011) Marketing The "mobile wallet" (essentially, stored credentials and accounts on a smart lphone) might find greater success than mobile payments (using the mobile to complete a retail transaction) in the near term, a new study of Millennials might suggest.  Using a mobile device as a substitute for carrying a plastic loyalty card is the top requested mobile payment application for Millennials (over 25 percent  expressed interest). Only 10 percent of  Millennials surveyed expressed interest in using ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Harris Interactive   Millennials

22. AT&T Will Sell iPhone 3GS "Free" on 2-Year Contract Explore IP Carrier (Oct 5 2011) Marketing AT&T will be able to sell the Apple 3GS to customers in the United States "for no incremental cost" ("free") on two-year service contracts that must include a data plan. Four years ago, the cheapest iPhone cost $400. Today, it's free, at least on the U.S. AT&T network. The move shows that growth in smart phone adoption now is moving rapidly into the mainstream, with most of the sales volume coming ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   AT&T   HTC Droid Incredible

23. Microcells and Backhaul will Have to be Cheap Explore IP Carrier (Oct 5 2011) Whichever technology is used to backhaul small cells, it has to be cheap, "it has to be massively cheap," said Andy Sutton, Everything Everywhere principal architect, access transport. "We have a financial envelope for small cells and it's challenging."Cost is so important because small cells will have relatively low usage compared to a macrocell and there will be lots of sites to support. Compared with macrocells, small cells will cover distance of about ... (Read Full Article)

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24. Google has no Ability to Dominate New Markets, Some Would Argue Explore IP Carrier (Oct 4 2011) Marketing Legislating and regulating "problems" that are just about to solve themselves is a real problem in either national economic "planning" or regulation. Most of you are too young to remember the real and serious debates and dialogues held by telecom policymakers back in the 1970s and 1980s about how to provide telephone service to "one billion people who have never made a phone call." The daunting problem seemed intractable. But policymakers back then had no ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Facebook

25. Kindle Fire Set to Outsell iPad at Launch Explore IP Carrier (Oct 4 2011) Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever, assuming one chooses to consider the Kindle Fir a tablet like the Apple iPad (some of us do not).Orders for Amazon’s Android-based tablet are racking up at an average rate of over 2,000 units per hour, or over 50,000 per day.In the five days since Amazon put ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com

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