Mobile Industry Review

Is Tim Cook throwing chairs across his office right now after this iTV leak?

By Ewan on February 7, 2012 in Devices

Have a quick read and see what you think — it looks like someone working at these Canadian networks has been very, very leaky: In a rather unexpected twist, Canada’s largest newspaper and newspaper of record — The Globe and Mail — has published details of Apple’s upcoming iTV. According to the paper, Rogers and [...]

MWC is 3 weeks away: If you need a bit of a push, sponsor our coverage!

By Ewan on February 6, 2012 in News

Mobile World Congress isn’t far away now. The noise has already begun — at least when I’m looking at the avalanche of emails arriving about the planet’s biggest mobile event. Back in January I wrote about some of the rather cool sponsorship packages we’ve got ready-and-waiting to help boost attention during this period. We’ll be [...]

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Are you NOT going to MWC? This event might be for you!

By Ewan on February 6, 2012 in News

I’ve had a note in from James Whatley about an upcoming MWC drinks event — with a bit of a difference! Read on for more details: Dan and James are doing it again: Are you having trouble making it to MWC? Have you decided to say ‘BALLS!’ to Barcelona? Do you have a slight obsession [...]

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Jobs: Do you know any good mobile product managers or strategy people?

By Ewan on February 6, 2012 in Services

Ed Hodges is a man on a mission for Royal Bank of Scotland. He’s the bank’s Head of Mobile for Business & Commercial and he’s hunting for two permanent staff to join him. He dropped me a note to see if I knew anyone appropriate. I’ve a few ideas — indeed, I think there will [...]

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The Best Buy Mobile Innovators Superbowl videos

By Ewan on February 6, 2012 in Opinion

You’ve no doubt been hearing all about the Best Buy mobile innovators video series of advertisements they ran during last night’s Super Bowl. I’ve put them all here in one place for you to watch, just in case you were hunting for them. Super work Best Buy! – – – – – Square Mobile: The [...]

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MEF Americas 2011: ‘App to person’ messaging is the long-tail for SMS

By shauna on February 6, 2012 in News

Whilst much of the discussion at MEF Americas 2011 concerned mobile apps and the usual challenges for developers of addressing multiple platforms, there was an interesting panel session which reminded me that SMS is completely cross platform and available to all ‘out of the box’. As obvious as this sounds, I’d missed the implication which John Orlando of Sixth [...]

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MEF Americas 2011: Using mobile to help the ‘unbanked’

By shauna on February 3, 2012 in News

Whilst at MEF Americas 2011 I was amazed to hear the statistic that around 60 million US citizens are ‘unbanked’… that is ‘without a bank account’. I was aware that many in developing economies chose not to or were unable to access banking services, but author Gary Schwartz explained it was also a widespread – and [...]

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Live Event: MEF Americas 2011

By shauna on February 1, 2012 in News

Wireless Worker is at MEF Americas 2011 and will be covering the 2 day industry event which covers North & Latin America’s mobile content and commerce ecosystems live from Miami. Our coverage: Neil Stiles, president of Variety Group says “You can’t charge more for content just by delivering it to an iPhone” (audio) and Beware the risk of [...]

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Get me the best retail guy around! Wait? You say he’s from Dixons?

By Ewan on January 31, 2012 in News, Opinion

Dixons? The retail chain store in the UK? The dated, dusty and generally dreadful technology store? Oh dear. Let’s be clear, Dixons Travel is pretty excellent. I’ve bought quite a lot from them over the years — indeed I even picked up a £1,400 laptop once on a semi-whim. Dixons Travel shops at Heathrow tend [...]

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Can the iPad revolutionise rural Agriculture? Yup…

By Ewan on January 31, 2012 in Devices

It’s simply fascinating to watch just how the iPad has been embraced by all sorts of seemingly unlikely industries. Fast Company reports below on the use of tablet technology to help support and manage rural agriculture. Yet another +1 for the iPad, eh? The iPad is a luxury toy. It’s also a powerful, adaptable tool. [...]

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Is Apple the next Nokia? Now there’s a question…

By Ewan on January 31, 2012 in Opinion

I got together with Ben Smith and Rafe Blandford recently to discuss this multibillion-dollar question on episode 9 of the 361 Degrees podcast: Is Apple the next Nokia? Now, all the iFans go absolutely nuts, there’s method in this apparent madness, especially given Apple has just completed yet another ridiculously amazing quarter. If you recall, [...]

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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock

By Ewan on January 31, 2012 in Services

This is my iPad running the free Citrix Receiver application, which in turn is connected into my demo account on the CyberlinkASP / Rackspace DaaS service. I’ve been trying it out over the past few days and I have to say, the concept of DaaS (“Desktop as a Service”) really does appeal. The ability to [...]

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