All the nerds and geeks at Clockwork were so excited for the Apple announcement today that we all brought our lunches to the table and watched the event unfold together.

Just recently, I made the jump from a basic cell phone to the Droid from Motorola - and I love it!

Yeah, you heard me. Kiss ‘em! Don’t get me wrong – I love apps. But, too many marketers are mistaking "There's an app for that" for a true mobile marketing strategy.

The emergence and rapid adoption of apps have given mobile the attention that it deserves, but overall they’ve given marketers and brands the wrong impression when it comes to mobile strategy.

Have you ever seen what you thought was a bar code but didn't quite look like a traditional bar code? You may have been looking at a QR code.

QR codes haven't made many appearances in the US yet but they are gaining momentum. A fellow Clockworker spotted one on a movie poster in Minneapolis this past summer. QR codes are widely popular in Japan and Europe, and are used in a variety of ways from advertising to restaurant menus.

The blog, Daily Patricia, had an interesting post today positing that Facebook's future competitor could be...telecom? Yeah.

A couple weeks ago Opera released Opera Mini 4. This was a huge advancement in Mobile Browsers! Now I know the iPhone could already do much of what Mini 4 can do and more but only a small percentage of the population is on the iPhone, the rest of use on mobile phones need a better solution to the internet on our mobile devices. Opera Mini takes much of the same features that Safari on the iPhone does. Opera Mini gives you a full screen view of the page you are looking at and lets you zoom into the specific content you want, compared to Opera Mini 3 this is probably the biggest improvement.