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Confession time.  Have you ever traveled abroad and returned home with a massive cell phone bill?

On a recent US–>Europe trip, I decided not to buy the outrageously expensive daily package from my service provider because I thought I would use data services “sparingly” while in the US.

OOPS.

I will spare you all the details of my smartphone bill horror story…it was ugly.  Luckily, I am not alone in my dislike for [...]

This week Marc Andreessen (co founder of Netscape/tech. investor extraordinaire) wrote an interesting article entitled Software is eating the world. In the article, Marc mentioned that in 10 years we could see 5 Billion smartphones on this planet.  Wow.  Smartphones are eating the world too…

Go read the article if you haven’t yet; it is a good one.

In 10 years, smartphones and smart mobile software will certainly do a much better [...]

I had a bit of a sleepless fit last week.

After tossing and turning for about 3 hours, I finally settled in the “sleep zone.” But, just as I was about to fall into dreamland, my iPhone lit up with a bright notification (confession:  I use my iPhone for about everything, including an alarm clock).

As I stretched across the bed to kill the notification, I noticed that I was missing out on a [...]

I confess, I’m as addicted to the mobile phone as you probably are.  I love the new “era of the app” and all the possibility and convenience it affords.  It is also incredibly interesting to watch language and behavior evolve around this new device, as we learn to do things like “check-in” with location based mobile apps.

Sometimes though, if we’re honest, our “check-in” activity really equates [...]