Yahoo and Google go mobile

Excerpt from Times Online:

November 07, 2005

By Rhys Blakely


Mobile phones may yet fulfill the potential foreseen
during the dot-com boom, following reports that
Yahoo and Google are to roll out services through
wireless networks.

To date mobile internet - or "3G" - services have
proved a disappointment for users, who have had to
contend with patchy network coverage and lengthy
download times.

Telecoms companies paid ?2.5 billion in 3G license
fees in the UK alone, hoping to cash in on the
new market. But half a decade later a study by Ofcom,
the telecoms watchdog, found that 85 per cent of
the British population did not know what "3G" meant.


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In <dknu2e$1e5e$(E-Mail Removed)> on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC),
(E-Mail Removed) (Caerus) wrote:

>Excerpt from Times Online:
>November 07, 2005
>By Rhys Blakely
>
>Mobile phones may yet fulfill the potential foreseen
>during the dot-com boom, following reports that
>Yahoo and Google are to roll out services through
>wireless networks.
>[SNIP]

<yawn>

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On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:52:36 GMT, John Navas
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>In <dknu2e$1e5e$(E-Mail Removed)> on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC),
>(E-Mail Removed) (Caerus) wrote:
>
>>Excerpt from Times Online:
>>November 07, 2005
>>By Rhys Blakely
>>
>>Mobile phones may yet fulfill the potential foreseen
>>during the dot-com boom, following reports that
>>Yahoo and Google are to roll out services through
>>wireless networks.
>>[SNIP]
>
><yawn>

As usual, you just can't pass up a chance to be snide, can
you?

John Navas wrote:
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>
> In <dknu2e$1e5e$(E-Mail Removed)> on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC),
> (E-Mail Removed) (Caerus) wrote:
>
>
>>Excerpt from Times Online:
>>November 07, 2005
>>By Rhys Blakely
>>
>>Mobile phones may yet fulfill the potential foreseen
>>during the dot-com boom, following reports that
>>Yahoo and Google are to roll out services through
>>wireless networks.
>>[SNIP]
>
>
> <yawn>
>

Agree, most of the dot-com "potential" was just pure hype and spin.

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:33:24 -0500,
in article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed)lid (George) writes...
> John Navas wrote:
> > [POSTED TO alt.internet.wireless - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
> >
> > In <dknu2e$1e5e$(E-Mail Removed)> on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC),
> > (E-Mail Removed) (Caerus) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Excerpt from Times Online:
> >>November 07, 2005
> >>By Rhys Blakely
> >>
> >>Mobile phones may yet fulfill the potential foreseen
> >>during the dot-com boom, following reports that
> >>Yahoo and Google are to roll out services through
> >>wireless networks.
> >>[SNIP]
> >
> >
> > <yawn>
> >
>
> Agree, most of the dot-com "potential" was just pure hype and spin.


Not really. There were some spectacular failures during the
boom/bust years and people with more marketing prowess than
anything else, who made the whole industry look bad. That
doesn't mean anything online that purports to offer an
interesting service is automatically "bunk".

Also, the way the article reference is written, in a way,
is a return to the "bad days" (publications like "Fast
Company", "Business 2.0" and "Red Herring" come to mind)
where anything remotely connected to the internet, or
data networks is imbued with all sorts of "cool" catchwords
like "3G", and "Dotcom" etc., rather than just talking about
whatever the h*ll the product *does* - and more importantly,
whether it's *useful* or not.

It takes little knowledge or insight to write about Yahoo or
Google. It's like a business writer writing about Walmart:
everyone talks about them, news is everywhere, everyone writes
about them, who cares?



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