Category Archives: Mobile & Web

A1 Telekom’s acquisition of Yesss!

Posted on February 4, 2012 by mPansy

I just ran into an article about the recently announced acquisition of Orange Austria by Hutchison “3”. Part of the deal is the subsequent sale of Orange low-end brand Yesss! to market leader A1 Telekom Austria for 390m€. The previously cited … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile & Web | Leave a comment

Mobile could do so much more…

Posted on January 29, 2012 by mPansy

All over tech blogs one can read that smartphones and connected devices represent another wave of the digital revolution. There are 5.6bn mobile phone subscribers and at the end of 2011 already 835m of them were equipped with smartphones. Smartphone … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile & Web | Leave a comment

Why Android (Market) still sucks

Posted on April 17, 2011 by mPansy

During the last 12 months Google’s Android OS has turned the smartphone OS market upside down and took over the lead if measured by quantity of new devices sold. No doubt that Android is a big success and will continue … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile & Web | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

On the death of the SMS…

Posted on March 7, 2011 by mPansy

It seems that it is part of my job to get regularly asked how long our company can survive as long as we mainly rely on selling SMS. Not one week is passing by without getting this questioned by either … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile & Web | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

On Nokia & Microsoft

Posted on March 4, 2011 by mPansy

Please find a comment I have written 2 weeks ago for Horizont about the strategic partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. Der schwächelnde, voerst noch größte Mobiltelefonhersteller Nokia und der Software-Gigant Microsoft haben eine strategische Partnerschaft geknüpft. Nokia wird künftig für seine … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile & Web | Tagged , | Leave a comment