Mobile Push? Haven’t We Seen This Movie Before?

Operators are cottoning on to the idea of pushing information to mobile phones where it resides quietly in the background until users want it. It’s a pretty nifty idea, especially for 2G networks where downloading something might take a long time. The service is best suited to persistant but constantly changing data, in my opinion, such as weather, sports scores or traffic updates. However, the writer compares it to Pointcast, an Internet technology that ended up failing because it was depended on what the ‘operator’ included.

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