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Chris Kranky


Twitter, again I ask why?

Twitter is the SMS equivalent to a conference bridge. Basically, you get people to join your circle and whenever you send a text message to a special short code, it gets automatically sent out to everyone in your circle. They can reply and it’s sent to everyone as well.  Twitter is primarily designed for SMS/text […]

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Stuck in traffic? Again!

Something of value, been playing with the free services from traffic.com which is operated by the mapping service giant NavTeq. The service basically answers the question "what’s the traffic ahead look like?". It’s an age old problem but traffic.com has done a super job of integrating voice, web and email for this [...]

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Churn baby churn

Sitting thru some wank vendor presentation on a wireless service, sales guy kept talking about how it would reduce "churn" rates. That’s all nice, but frankly, I’m not sure any wireless operator is horribly concerned with churn nor is it likely that any "service" would have impact on it. Let’s take a [...]

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Kid’s wireless service

Kids screaming for their own wireless phone. What an 8-year old needs with a cell phone is beyond me. Disney Mobile is making an effort and for the most part, I don’t see huge success. Too expensive and a bunch of features you may not really want. Plus no teenager wants a Disney phone (it’s […]

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