Instagram's CEO thinks Cell Phone Data Plans is an obstacle

Watching Kevin Systrom - Co-Founder and CEO, Instagram.

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800,000 photos were tagged Sandy over the past week.  What was interesting is Kevin's comment that cell phone data plans are an obstacle for sharing more.  Imagine how many more photos would have been shared if the cell coverage wasn't damaged as well.

Kevin thinks Mobile is just starting given it has only existed for a couple of years for many.

Latency is another issue that Kevin touches on for mobile networks.

You can watch Kevin's talk on the GigaOm stream.

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/74987/events/1625459/videos/5782565 

GreenM3 going to Blackberry Jam Conference, San Jose Sept 25-27

i have been spending a lot of time working on some mobile solutions lately.  Building on the PC is so in the past.  My main phone is an iPhone 4S.  No I am not upgrading to the iPhone 5.  I have a Samsung Galaxy Note for a phabet experience and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Verizon to compensate for the AT&T devices.

At GigaOm Mobilize I ran into some ex-Windows 95 friends who now work at Blackberry and shared some ideas.  They said hey why don't you go to our Blackberry Jam Conference in SJ next week.

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So, I may add the Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha to my iOS and Android devices.

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Baidu launches mobile browser

Reuters has an article announcing Baidu shipping a mobile browser.

* Baidu launches mobile browser to compete with UCWeb, Google, Apple

* Baidu's mobile browser highlights shift to mobile, cloud computing

* Baidu's monetization of mobile is medium-term concern - analyst

BEIJING, Sept 3 (Reuters) - China's dominant search engine Baidu Inc rolled out a mobile browser on Monday to help secure its share in a mobile Internet market that surpasses the U.S. population in size and to fend off smaller rivals such as Qihoo 360 Technology Co.

Most of you have been around long enough to remember the Internet Explorer fight with Netscape for market share.  When Microsoft won the battle it cut back on its IE staff, dropping the Mac, and a skeleton crew on mobile.  Baidu, Apple, Google, Mozilla, and many others are fighting for the mobile browser share.

Notice how all the big data center players have a browser play - Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon.

The desktop battle is intense again.  The mobile market is even more fierce.

Microsoft has a TV commercial for IE9 with no mobile in it.

NASA uses Android phones for satellites, maybe machine control systems are next

NASA has figured out that using an Android Phone is a cheaper way to build satellites.

 

Aug 27, 2012 - 10:30AM PT

 

Google in Space: NASA powers mini-satellites with Android phones

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NASA is experimenting with new satellites that use off-the-shelf electronics to cut down on costs. At the heart of its new nanosatellite is a Google Nexus smartphone, which has both the processing power to run the orbiter and the sensors it needs to perform its mission.

NASA PhoneSat 1 testing

Today’s smartphone has many times the processing power of all the used computers during the Apollo moon landings. So why not use the smartphone to control a spacecraft? That’s the approach NASA is taking in latest project, which uses off-the-shelf to electronics, including a Nexus One Android phone, in the construction of a new nanosatellite.

As Android's growth continues, it seems that some time soon Android devices will go into the machine control systems.  Wouldn't it be nice if the same developers who work on mobile phones could develop for machine control systems.  Maybe your data center in the future will run on Android.

Olympics show a future with lots of mobile viewing

GigaOm has a post on the viewership of Xfinity customers.

By the numbers: How the Olympics helped to take multi-screen mainstream

On how many different devices did you watch the Olympic games? If you’re anything like the average Xfinity customer, the answer is between two and three – and that’s not even counting your living room TV. Welcome to the first multi-screen Olympics.

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Comcast released an astonishing piece of data this week: The average Xfinity customer who viewed live streams of the the games online authenticated 2.4 devices. It’s worth noting that this is in addition to millions of TV screens used to watch the London games; those 2.4 devices are just mobile phones, tablets and PCs. In other words: Millions of people used not one or two, but three to four screens to watch the Olympics!

The data that got my attention though is the mobile use by iOS and Android.