For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.
If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'
I hardly use a computer anymore because I have everything on my phone.
Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.
A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.
Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.
The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.
I'm a big mobile fan, so I love seeing all of the latest technologies with phones.
We think that 5G will likely last longer and be deeper than first thought.
E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.
There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.
Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.
We see opportunities in the networking and telecom space, including 5G, where we see accelerated investments.
I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
Significant new spending will only come when 5G accelerates.
Mobile is something I think about all the time now.
5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.
In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.
The Cingular-branded 2125 Smartphone is an example of how Windows Mobile 5.0 can create a flexible, powerful phone that helps mobile information workers access their most essential business data in a compact form factor.
