Raj Singh

Biography

Raj Singh is a mobile industry veteran having worked in all aspects of mobile over the past 8 years. Raj has co-founded Veeker, a mobile video communication service, ToneThis, CNET’s top ringtone creation product and Otasoft, an LBS Bluetooth couponing service.

Raj has also worked in product management and strategy roles for Kodak Mobile, Cellmania, MobiTV, PlayPhone and Antenna Software. Raj’s personal projects include Moblexa, a mobile toolbar, PocketTella, a mobile file-sharing service and Pubwalk, an LBS bar-hopping service. Raj has also been a mobile advisor to a number of companies including Guba, ChuckD Mobile, DeviantArt and several VCs within the valley.

Raj is a regular mobile writer, speaker and expert group participant including contributions to the JCP and the Bluetooth SIG. For more information, please see www.rajansingh.com.

Blog

The Vodafone UK Debacle

September 25 2007

If you are not aware, Vodafone UK recently decided to remove the User-Agent field from the mobile browser headers. This means a web developer can't tell if the user browsing to their mobile site is coming from a mobile device... read more

Why Widgets Remind Me of Mobile Development

August 12 2007

So over the past several months, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time following, reading and developing widgets for a variety of platforms. I’ve classified widgets into three platforms: 1. Web - These would be widgets you would embed or develop for portals such as Myspace, iGoogle, Netvibes or Facebook 2.… read more

Side-Decking

July 10 2007

So I was speaking with a colleague the other day and he coined a new term to the describe the forthcoming Apple ringtone purchasing and download behavior - he called it “side-decking”. It’s a combination of side-loading and the deck - let me explain. The ringtone and actually the whole mobile… read more

Is the Walled Garden Getting Worse?

June 20 2007

Here is some food for thought: 1. In 2001, it was a lot easier to publish your mobile content such as a ringtone or wallpaper or your WAP application onto a carrier catalog. Today, only if your brand is Tier 1 such as Disney or you work through a publisher, will… read more

The MMS Hockey Stick

June 06 2007

So a colleague recently put together this graph. It’s using data from the published numbers available in the Verizon and Cingular financial reports; you can look up these numbers yourself. There is no doubt that MMS is finally taking off but the real question for me is MMS to a… read more

Is Off-Deck Browsing Really Growing?

May 24 2007

So I’ve been browsing the mobile web from when I was working on it in 1999. Early on, I’d primarily use it for casual browsing such as playing a WAP game or perusing through the news. In the last few yrs, I’ve been using it for local searches, email, weather… read more