Archive for Ewan
We’re at the Future of Web Apps Conference this evening and we’ve got lots of interesting stuff to put in this Monday’s MIR Show!
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Continue ReadingI’m Curving it.
At about 845am this morning I phoned Vodafone and asked them to activate Blackberry service on my main account.
I took my SIM out of my Nokia E90 and placed it into my Curve. Bish, bash, bosh… I was then live a few moments later.
I’ve been carrying tons of devices around and the [...]
Business Week has the details.
And oh, what interesting details they are.
INQ, a subsidiary of Hutchison, is going ballistic. On the back of the success of the S2 Skypephones, they’re lining up a big, big market challenge.
“We’re tired of paying a fortune for phones that are unusable,” says Frank Meehan, the chap in charge.
Unusable in [...]
You can read all about him here.
If you’re doing good things in mobile, you should be in our new Who’s Who. Drop me a note and we’ll add you.
We’re recording the Mobile Industry Review Awards — both the nominations and the winners — tonight.
I’ve just overseen the creation of our fancy envelopes with the results inside.
SHHHH. Can’t tell you who’s won.
Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley will be presenting alternate categories, listing out the nominations — and then ripping open the [...]
3, Toshiba and Amnesty International first clients for product personalisation company skins4things.
skins4things provides custom-made ‘skins’ for laptops, iPods, games
consoles and mobile phones. You just stick on the vinyl and woosh, you’ve now got a Union Jack coloured iPod. Or N95. And so on. Nice!
If you’d like your own white [...]
Tricia over at mocoNews reports — briefly — that Geraldine Wilson has taken up the position of CEO over at Truphone.
I trust that she also brings a few hundred million dollars with her.
Geraldine previously headed up biz and marketing strategy for Yahoo’s mobile section (”Connected Life”). Every success Geraldine!
The US text message market is in a bit of flux.
I’ve been getting phone calls and text messages from aggregators across the country who can’t quite believe that, from 1st November 2008, Verizon will apply a $0.03 transaction fee on every outgoing text message through it’s network.
I can’t quite believe it either.
It did cost roughly [...]
I’m not clear on whether this is good marketing from the Carphone Warehouse.
I just got the following email through from them. Or from Revoo. Or both. I never remember asking Carphone Warehouse to introduce me to Revoo.
I never like confusing people. Carphone is a brand I nkow. Revoo, I’ve heard off. [...]
Continue ReadingSo reckon some researchers in India. I picked this up via The Statesman which is apparently one of India’s oldest English newspapers.
It is not quite the fastest way to cook an egg, but researchers have found that if a raw egg is placed in between four switched-on cell phones, it will be ready to [...]
They’re smart cookies over at Path Intelligence.
They installed their systems at a UK shopping centre and found this (via BBC News):
For their first commercial project, the company has studied the movements of shoppers in a UK shopping centre to determine the paths that shoppers take and how long they spend in the centre as a [...]
So reckons an RBC analyst, Mr Mike Abramsky (quoted by Internet News).
A research report today by RBC analyst Mike Abramsky noted that RIM would launch a “BlackBerry Apps Center” with the official sales launch of the impending Storm 9530 smartphone. The analyst also wrote that software offerings include the VZ Navigator (Verizon is the Storm’s [...]
I had another note from a reader yesterday. He’s a particularly successful mobile entrepreneur here in the UK.
He writes:
Do you know if Bluetooth Marketing is still actively being used or has a been forgotten. Do you know any good Bluetooth Marketing companies that lease kit or software?
You’d have been forgiven for thinking so, wouldn’t [...]
Pete’s been a reader of Mobile Industry Review for a little while and decided to drop me a note after experiencing the ultra hard sell from a chap at Vodafone UK. Have a read:
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Hi Ewan, I received your dispatches about your own experiences of ‘mobile-world’ and notice you’ve leaned quite [...]
Feast your eyes on the all new Blackberry Storm — launched today on Vodafone — but available from next month (and hopefully free from Bold-style OS issues).
First, a glorious gratuitous full screen shot please:
And, when you tilt the device, how’s it look?
When you touch it, it feels like a button — so says Frank Rovekamp, [...]
Continue ReadingI got a note in this morning from Carl Uminski, CTO of Trutap. I caught up with Carl very briefly at CTIA in San Francisco last month and he showed me a demo of the next version of Trutap — it’s going to be quite stunning. IM, Content, Social Networking — all aimed [...]
Continue ReadingWe’ve swapped. Finally!
Finally we are now exclusively on the domain name, mobileindustryreview.com.
For quite a while we’ve been using smstextnews.com — our old domain. This is because the site comprises roughly 22gig of data which is a bit of an arse to move around. Having done that, thanks to the support of our [...]
Our resident new student, Dan Pullen, has been having a look at the Samsung Omnia. Having obtained one, what does he reckon? Let’s find out.
Caution, though: The Omnia is Windows Mobile… which as we all know is a rather challenging OS for anyone other than the most patient…
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I popped out the other night for 10 minutes.
Just 10 minutes. Popped to the shop to get some stuff then back again.
Didn’t take my phone. I was traveling light. Living for now. Frankly I couldn’t be arsed to stick the Nokia E90 into my jeans pocket.
On the way to [...]
Credit crunch? What credit crunch?
SMSGupShup, India’s equivalent of Twitter, has just taken $11m from Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures, to help grow and develop the business (reports Silicon India).
This good news for the SMSGupShup team and for the mobile industry as a whole. The growth of mobile in the emerging markets is [...]
If you’re into search and location based services and you’re based in or near London, get thee to this event.
Chinwag are putting on an excellent evening. Here are the details:
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Is an alliance of mobile search and location-based services (LBS) poised to take the consumer experience and [...]
Steve over at The Hot Aisle is rather unimpressed to note that according to Germany’s Der Spiegel, 17 million T-Mobile customer records were stolen by thieves.
But it was back in 2006.
German Police have reportedly recovered copies of the data.
But some bright spark — or a few bright sparks — are thought to still be [...]
This week, Mr Operator surveys the wreckage on the stock market, the dithering Government Ministers and the Daily Mail doom, gloom, horror headlines — and sees only opportunity.
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Hmmmm…..Credit Crunch…best kept fresh in silver foil…
There are no better opportunities to look for silver linings than when you are in the middle of [...]
I got this in from Paul Cockerton of AQA. It’s out first non-press release, news item, ever. I think it works quite well. Instead of sending me a press release, Paul’s knocked me over this letter. Good man!
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Hi Ewan,
Just to let you know we passed 15 million [...]
I’ve been trying to buy a Blackberry Bold. Full price. No contracts. I just want the handset.
First I went into the Vodafone shop. None left in stock.
Carphone Warehouse? Despite my issue with their insurance, I popped in. None in stock. They’ve all been sent back, I’m told — [...]
Giff on 