McGuire’s Law

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Wireless inspiring changes in where people work
• % of corporations enabling workers with 3G cards flys past WiFi
• 163% growth in smartphone sales
• $14
• 7x as many navigation-ready cellphones as non-phone GPS devices
• $1.7T -> $2.7T
• 3G capable handsets become the majority of those sold
• Multimedia phones passing TVs
• Cellphones largest consumer electronics sector
• 1 in 5

Full list here.

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Now playing: Claire Holley – Once In Royal David’s City

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• $210M
• ?1B
• Smartphone sales outpace laptop sales

Full list here.

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Now playing: Randy Stonehill – Starlings

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Not enough outlets
• 600% growth
• Mobile internet driving handset decisions
• 1B texts per week
• Cellphones from vending machines
• QR-based dynamic magazine
• 1000 stores
• $10M

Full list here.

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Now playing: Timber – Here To Find You

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• 10% -> 30%
• 11% -> 30%
• 20% -> 38%
• 3M
• 5 quarters of PC sales declines (thanks Rob)
• 3 out of 5 small businesses increasing mobile spending

Full list here.

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Now playing: Claire Holley – Once in Royal David’s City

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• 2M
• 3M
• 3M
• 8M
• 11M
• 60M
• $330M
• $10.5B
• $56B
• 1.1T
• 40% want GPS in their smartphones

Full list here.

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Now playing: T-Bone Burnett – No Love At All

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• A cellphone worth $185,000?
• 90% of SMBs have mobile employees
• Businesses spend 23% more on mobile data than all teenagers combined
• 54% pursuing mobile business apps beyond e-mail
• Cisco buys into WiMax
• LBS is hot
• 800M
• 20M
• $12.3B

Full list here.

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• FMS on the rise
• 70% of physicians to have Internet-enabled smartphones
• Cell tower on Mount Everest
• Over half say social life… mobile…
• 13M
• 130M

Full list here.

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Now playing: Blessid Union Of Souls – Lucky 2

Bonus: WSJ’s Jason Fry wonders about the impact of mobilizing music

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• Popular TV increasingly available on mobiles
• QR codes in music video
• 80% of Japanese do more than talk and e-mail on mobiles
• “Where are you?”
• The end of “time”

Full list here.

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Now playing: Aaron Sprinkle – Gravel

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• DoubleClick goes mobile
• 50M + 23M
• $8B

Full list here.

More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:

• In Detroit, 43% of small businesses say they “couldn’t survive without wireless”
• SMS surge
• Mobility and wireless are the future of Chinese Internet
• WiMax demo network goes live in Chicago
• $467.5M

Full list here.