A List of Blogs about Wireless/Mobile

Before starting to write something of my own, I thought it would be a good idea to survey what’s already on the Web. I was not surprised to find that there is much more than what I could read and digest. There are blogs that have been around for many years, some no longer maintained but many still active with regular postings. There are blogs recently started and we can note that with each posting the quality of the content improves. There are blogs started and maintained by individuals. On the other hand, there are blogs to which multiple authors contribute.

There are blogs hosted on Google. Typepad is another popular site for technical blogging. There are those that offer free hosting and others that have a wide range of pricing. Yesterday I tried hosting this on Yahoo! 360. Yahoo! 360 isn’t the best blog site but it’s handy for me because I have a Yahoo e-mail id. Recently Yahoo’s e-mail frontend has improved vastly so much so that I manage my calendar, contacts, e-mails, messaging and RSS feeds from a single interface. Unfortunately, Yahoo! 360 was clumsy. It is not ideal for blogging on technical stuff. It is more for social networking and sharing photos. A simple thing as embedding pictures within blog entries was not possible. So I switched to WordPress and its cool!

Here’s a quick list of blogs in the wireless and mobile space:

http://3g4g.blogspot.com/ http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/ http://blogs.cisco.com/wireless/ http://business-mobile.blogspot.com/ http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/ http://freedomail.typepad.com/blogfreedomailcom/ http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/ http://news.techdirt.com/news/wireless/ http://opengardensblog.futuretext.com/ http://uwbblog.typepad.com/the_ultra_wideband_blog/ http://windia.blogspot.com/ http://www.abiresearch.com/Blog/Wireless_Blog http://www.arstechnica.com/ http://www.biskero.org/ http://www.chetansharma.com/blog/ http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/mobile http://www.dailywireless.org/ http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ http://www.funambol.com/blog/capo/ http://www.gigaom.com/ http://www.gizmodo.com/ http://www.intomobile.com/ http://www.m-trends.org/ http://www.mobhappy.com/ http://www.mobile-weblog.com/ http://www.moconews.net/ http://www.mopocket.com/ http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/ http://www.phonescoop.com/ http://www.textually.org/ http://www.thewirelessreport.com/ http://www.wirelessduniya.com/

My favourite is my friend’s blog from the UK [1]. Almost all of what he writes is of interest to me. You can expect to find similar but not the same posts in my blog. Martin’s blog [7] is what I like next. He goes into the specifics of mobile technology and that’s exactly what interests me. His blogroll contains further links that may interest you. Cisco’s blog [3] has good stuff but the focus is on fixed wireless rather than mobile wireless or cellular technologies. Business travellers may want to visit [4]. Ajit Jaokar’s blog [9] has been around for more than two years. He has good reputation in the industry and his blogs have much useful information. There are blogs that relate particularly to the Indian market [11, 15, 32]. There are blogs focused on gadgets along with other relevant stuff [18, 29].

With so much around, I don’t intend to make copies of news articles which is what happens quite often at many blog sites. In fact, in my blogs I intend to introduce, compare and analyze wireless technologies. I hope the content will appeal to experts and newbies alike. Technology by itself is of little use without application. Application by itself will never happen without a market. Markets themselves will never evolve without sustainable business cases. I intend to make links amongst all these factors.