What a fantastic time to be in mobile. Minutes of use for mobile exceed PC Web usage, sell-through of smartphones and tablets exceed that of PCs, and the buzz around new, mobile-app-originated global brands such as Angry Birds is inescapable.

Mobile is fulfilling its promise: it is becoming more and more integrated into our daily lives, influencing beliefs and world views, enabling new means of interacting, living and even thinking that was science fiction not too long ago. A fantastic time, indeed.

The mobile explosion does, however, have essential issues of property, liberty and privacy that we must wrestle with. Who gets to say when messaging platforms should be throttled or monitored? What tracking is done and how can consumers interact with the trackers? What personal info should be asked for in exchange for free usage of intellectual property? As an industry, we need to find sensible answers to these questions that strikes the right balance, or someone else will that may produce results that limits creativity or our ability to deliver value to our customers. more

A welcome note from Ernie Cormier, CEO and president of Nexage. more