January 22nd, 2009
This morning we’ve been barraged with tips alerting us to the news that President Obama has won his struggle to keep his (apparently deeply loved) BlackBerry — a device which has historically been verboten in the White House due to security concerns. Unfortunately for the mainstream media outlets, a little conflation here and a little [...]
January 20th, 2009
Inauguration voice calls and video messages apparently strained beefed-up cell-phone networks in the Washington, D.C., area. Text messages seemed to do fine, while AT&T and T-Mobile reported redirecting congested traffic. An analyst said cell-phone users seemed to be learning a new kind of mobile etiquette for mass events.
The history-making inauguration of President Barack Obama also [...]
August 26th, 2008
Many of you know that Senator Obama announced his VP via text-message push on Saturday. Regardless of anyone’s political affiliations, this was a watershed moment for mobile data in that something so newsworthy was communicated through the phone.
I have been thinking about other watershed moments in mobile data here in the US, and I couldn’t [...]