During his tenure as Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt attended a private meeting in Davos with a group of senior telecom executives and tried to crack a joke. “Why don’t you make all of the investment and we will take all the profits,” quipped Schmidt, according to a story making the rounds in the tech industry. Nobody in the room laughed. His stab at humour hit too close to home.

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Gate-crashing U.S. tech giants Apple and Google have been so successful at grabbing market and mindshare from Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, and Symbian, the long-time market leader of operating system software for advanced mobile phones, that the Finnish phonemaker realized it had to take drastic action. It announced February 11 that it is forging a sweeping strategic partnership with another long-time rival, Microsoft, aligning its destiny with that of the US software giant in the burgeoning smartphone market.

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On the first day of winter, the German automaker BMW's mobile marketing division had a brainstorm. Since it is a legal requirement in Germany that all cars must be equipped with snow tires when winter begins, BMW sent out a text message to every car owner in its domestic German database with a photo of their car sporting brand new winter tires. The result was dramatic: €14 million in new tires sales.

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In March 2007, Safaricom, the leading mobile operator in Kenya,  launched M‐PESA, an SMS‐based money transfer system that allows consumers to deposit, send, and withdraw funds using their mobile phones. Use of M‐PESA quickly skyrocketed, reaching more than 35 percent of Kenya’s adult population. But the service has not scaled globally. Informilo examines the reasons why.Read more

When U.S. President Barak Obama went before Congress last month to talk about how his administration intends to focus on innovation, he made a strong case for the adoption of mobile health technology. “Within the next five years, we'll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans,” the President said.Read more