David Snell of the Chartwell Group provides high technology consulting in the areas of operations management, sales and marketing strategic and tactical planning, business development management and investments.

2011 News Archives



Washington DC May 4th 2011 - Patrick  Payne, co-founder and CEO of QuickMobile speaks on TrendPOV Webinar: Patrick talked with Dr. Amy Vanderbuilt today about mobile apps on the Show "There's an
App For That"...more

New Orleans COMPETE CMO Conference May 4th - 6th 2011 - David Snell will be speking at the upcoming
COMPETE Conference about the state of the mobile industry and where the future
is taking us...more

London UK February 8th 2011 - QuickMobile asked to address BTMS attendees
on Impact of Social Networking on Travel Policies. David Snell participated in a
panel discussing the future impact of social networking on travel policies and
contracts...more

Vancouver, Canada Q4 2010 and Q1 2011: Recent mobile application solutions (iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Phone 7) developed by QuickMobile in the Travel and Entertainment sectors with a major focus on events, meetings and festivals, have included:

- Sundance Film Festival January 2011
- BTMS London UK February 7th - 9th 2011
- EMEC Dusseldorf February 13th - 15th 2011
- Cisco Partner Conference 2011
- GMIC conference 2011 February 20th - 23rd - Green Meetings Council
- World Economic Forum Davos Switzerland (January 2011)
- Disney Earmarked Conference (January 2011) onboard the Dream
- Salesforce.com Dreamforce Annual conference
- HPN Global Annual Partner meeting
- Hilton Owners Meeting
- ACTE Annual and Education Conferences Berlin and Calgary (New York in April 2011)
- PhoCusWright Innovation Conference
- Signature Travel Network annual meeting
- NBTA Annual meeting sponsored by BCD Travel
- ILTA
- DRI Annual Meeting
- Meeting Planners International WEC (World Education Congress) and EMEC 

Multiple year contracts will see new apps in 2011 for
TBS' Just For Laughs and Turner Classic Movies, Sundance and
Abu Dhabi Film Festivals, ACTE, MPI WEC, NBTA 2011/2012, Mountain Travel
Symposium, Cruise3Sixty and DRI events and membership
applications.

Mountain Travel Symposium will utilize an iPhone
app again in 2011: The Symposium to be held next year April 4th -
7th in Beaver Creek Colorado will be utilizing an iPhone app from QuickMobile
which will provide attendees with individual itineraries as well as real time
details on symposium events, Beaver Creek attractions, meetings, messaging and
more.

Globe and Mail Dec 15th 2011: It is yet another tense week for RIM, which reports earnings on
Thursday after market close – earnings that, though likely grim, had much of
their potential negative impact deflated by a pre-announcement on Dec. 2nd
Barcelona, Spain 2011...more


AT&T ends $39bn bid for T-Mobile USA - December 19, 2011:A combination of AT&T and T-Mobile USA would have become the biggest in the US. US telecoms giant AT&T has said it will not pursue its $39bn bid to
buy T-Mobile USA after running into fierce government objections. AT&T said the actions of the government to block the deal do not change the problems faced by the mobile phone industry. It says it still requires more airwaves to expand. If AT&T had bought T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom, it would have become
the US's largest cellphone company.

BCTIA Newsletter T-Net Direct November 7th 2011:
FINANCING ANNOUNCEMENTS & IPO’S; QUICKMOBILE
announced that it has closed a $1.3 million investment from
Vancity.

RIM hoping for Black(Berry) Friday sales comeback - Rival
devices may overshadow new offerings. By Matt Hartley, With a Report From
Jonathan Ratner Financial Post November 22,
2011...more

AT&T
Drives Most Internet Traffic for U.S. Businesses in September 2011;
Competition Among Business Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) Increases as Size of Business Decreases: RESTON, VA,
November 14, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in
measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of Internet Service
Provider (ISP) market share within businesses across the United States. Among
its findings, the study showed AT&T leading the U.S. business ISP market
with 20 percent of all browser-based Internet page views (i.e. traffic) in
September 2011, followed by Verizon with a 12-percent share of the market.
CenturyLink, which merged with Qwest in April 2011, ranked as the third largest
business ISP at 7 percent share. The five largest business ISPs drove nearly 50
percent of business Internet traffic across the U.S....report

PARTNERSHIPS & ALLIANCES; SIERRA WIRELESS
and Sprint announced they are collaborating to help application developers,
product manufacturers, and machine-to-machine service providers get new
solutions up and running on the Nationwide Sprint
Network.

Enter the digital wallet,
Special to Globe and Mail Update Published Monday, Nov. 07, 2011 6:00AM
EST: The future of money, if you ask most people who work in the
world of processing payments, is that it’s increasingly going to come out of
your cellphone, rather than your wallet. In a few years (a loose measure, but a
common one), cellphones equipped with secure, short-range radio transmitters
will enable tap-to-pay transactions on everything from cola-vending machines to
furniture-store checkouts...more

Globe
and Mail November 3, 2011: RIM suffers first quarterly drop in
smart phone shipments
By Iain Marlow. In yet another bit of bad news for
Research In Motion Ltd. RIM-T, new data from research firm IDC show the
BlackBerry-maker suffered its first year-over-year decline in global
smart
phone unit shipments in the third quarter of the calendar year...more

In its second quarter as a public company, LinkedIn posted Q3
earnings today [November 4th 2011]. Revenue for the
third quarter was $139.5 million, up 126 percent from the third quarter in 2010.
GAAP Net loss for the third quarter was $1.6 million (or a loss of $0.02 per
share), compared to net income of $4 million for the third quarter of 2010;
Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter  was $6.6 million (or $0.06 per
share), compared to $6 million for the third quarter of 2010. Analysts expected
LinkedIn to break even on an earnings on a per share basis with revenue expected
to come in at $128 million...more

Vancouver BC May 2011: QuickMobile is
recognized by BIV as the 12th fastest growing company in the Province of BC out
of the Top 100, having grown by more than 5000%+ over the 5 years to 2010. 2011 
promises to continue this compound growth rate.


ASCENT ON MOUNT
KILIMANJARO: Final Blog Entry by Rowena A. highlights some additional pictures and her
once-in-a-lifetime experience...more

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Starbucks rolls out smart
phone payments in Canada - Globe and Mail Update November 8th 2011:
Global coffee giant Starbucks Corp. SBUX-Q  is betting that by
transforming shoppers' phones into mobile wallets, it will get consumers to
splurge more and return more often. Starbucks Corp wants to cash in on one of
its customers' addictions - to their smart phones - to profit even more from
their other addiction - to java. On Tuesday, the giant chain will break new
ground in Canada in offering mobile payment, starting from an iPhone and, in the
coming months, Android and BlackBerry devices. It's betting that by transforming
shoppers' phones into mobile wallets, it will get consumers to splurge more -
and return more often. "Many of our customers leave home without a wallet, but
almost never leave home without their phone," said Adam Brotman, senior
vice-president of digital ventures at Starbucks...more


AT&T has pushed back the
date that it hopes to close its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by
three months: In a regulatory filing, according to the Wall Street
Journal, it puts the date closer to the end of the first half of 2012, instead
of March. Ditto for its planned purchase of spectrum from Qualcomm...more

comScore
Reports March 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
Google and Apple Gain Ground in Smartphone Market
RESTON, VA, May 6, 2011 – comScore, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data
from the comScore MobiLens
service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three
month average period ending March 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S.
mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall
with 24.5 percent market share. Google Android led among smartphone platforms
with 34.7 percent market share.

David Snell of the Chartwell Group of Vancouver BC, provides high technology consulting in the areas of Executive management; change agent; strategic selling and training; target market, territory and sales development and management; channel and strategic partner relationships; online marketing. David Snell's experience includes: founding, expansion and sale of a vertical market software solutions company; leading Regional, National and International sales, services and marketing; and, the building and sale of two small high technology companies into worldwide leaders in their markets.