Adam Gillman

Company: golivemobile.com

adam@golivemobile.com

Since Verizon first implied that they were getting the iPhone last Friday, it's been the biggest news story in the mobile industry by a landslide. For the countless number of people who've wanted an iPhone but didn't want to deal with the perennial nightmare known as AT&T service, I bet most of you are jumping for joy. I also bet that anyone who has a stake in the...

I wrote an article a few weeks ago regarding app discovery and my opinion on some of the most popular services out there. Mashable just put together a great list of app directories and discovery engines so I thought I'd share it with all of you. It includes Chomp and a couple other services which I reviewed but also has a lot of new ones. Additonally, they break it...

Back in September, Amazon announced that they were developing their own Android application marketplace. While it's not yet ready to launch, Techcrunch reported today that Amazon has launched the developer-facing part of the store. So, I figured this would be an appropriate time to give some thoughts on what we're likely going to see changing in the app store space in...

Over this next year, we're going to see massive growth in the mobile application space. With smartphone adoption growing like wildfire, that's not really something anyone can deny. Here are four areas which I think are currently big opportunities. Payments - I put this one first because I think NFC is going to be that influential over the next year. As more NFC ena...

This post is part 2 of 2 and is meant to cover my predictions for what will end up being the most important trends for 2011. For part 1 of the series, which recaps 2010, click here. Android will take over: I've covered this topic a lot in previous posts and haven't been shy about my belief that Android will soon overtake iOS in terms of market share. I'm confident ...

This time of year, you'll see a ton of articles about two topics - "best of" lists for the year that's about to pass and predictions for the year that's about to arrive. This article is part 1 of 2 and will recap what I believe to be the most important/interesting/exciting mobile trends of 2010. Android grew: The growth that Android experienced over the past 12 mon...

Apps are everywhere. You're bombarded with calls to download apps from your supermarket shopping cart to your local newscaster closing out the 6:00 show. It's gone so far, that Chris Anderson recently proclaimed "The Web is Dead" and that simple, sleek services (aka apps) are the future of the internet. I wouldn't quite go that far (who the hell has even heard of this...

Prominent venture capitalist Fred Wilson recently posted an article about what platforms to focus on when building a mobile app. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to provide a quick summary and inject some of my own beliefs about the future of the mobile OS "race". Android  will be number 1 within 9 months: According to a recent comScore report, Android posted a 6...

I wrote an article a few days ago about which international markets were most exciting for mobile content/entertainment/gaming companies. I decided that I need to reiterate my excitement about AfricAsia (that's Africa and Asia). What makes AfricAsia so exciting you ask? Let me explain. Mobile Web Usage: This morning, I walked into a guy carrying a cup of coffee bec...

So you’ve decided to start marketing your mobile product(s) internationally. Good for you. Don’t quite know where to start from a carrier billing standpoint? Maybe I can help. Generally speaking, I think there are six factors that should ultimately determine which markets are a right fit for you and your organization to enter: market size, costs/fees, set up time, ...