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This is a thought that I’ve been pondering over for some time; mobiles have taken over our lives, almost to the point of invasion. We use and take them everywhere we go, and many of us rarely turn our beloved handsets off. So is there a time and place for mobiles?
Well I think there is. [...]
My Mum has been bugging me to write this for ages. She’s a “normob”, at the lowest level; she’s had her current mobile for around seven months now, and she still doesn’t know half of the features available to her. She can’t navigate too well, and she finds anything with buttons highly confusing (she can’t [...]
Continue ReadingWe recently got Sven Hålling, VP of Marketing at End2End to sit down and answer our SMS Text News Q&A. Here’s what he had to say!
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What was your first handset and network?
My first phone back in -95 was a big clunky Siemens brick, but it actually worked really great and I had it for a [...]
Without resorting to obvious stereotypes, this is not about Siemens executives always putting their towels on the sun chairs by the pool first thing in the morning, or about them being ruthlessly efficient in penalty shoot-outs. Instead, it is a comment from Peter Löscher, the head of Siemens (and himself an Austrian), about the company [...]
Continue ReadingAfter months and months and months (if you’ve listened to Podcast 
the SMS Text News team Bios are complete, read all about our motley crew here.
Fellow mobile blogger, Helen Keegan, made the London Times today:
Link: An essential piece of kit - Times Online
“Lots of people are working out ways of using Bluetooth or social networking or GPS to do these things,” says Helen Keegan, managing director of Beepmarketing and a mobile marketing blogger (http://www.technokitten.blogspot.com). “People are already working out some [...]
Jonathan Jensen is back with his weekly contribution — this time, a little later than normal (Jonathan’s going to be publishing on most Thursdays). He’s focusing his attention on the elder generation this week — an oft overlooked subject, but an increasingly important one.
Over to Jonathan…
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In my quest to understand [...]
So I went by the Spinvox stand yesterday. Seems I wasn’t the only one.
Richard Bliss, VP of Worldwide Marketing for GWAVA, has kindly agreed to write a series of posts from the CTIA show floor this week. GWAVA, by the way, make products for the GroupWise space however I was really [...]
I bumped into Carlo, the noted mobile industry guru over at mobhappy.com and asked him to tell me exactly what he thought about CTIA so far.
Here’s a direct quote:
… That was it. He couldn’t think of one single thing to say that was nice about the show!
I asked for a follow-up [...]
Here I am with two of the mobile world’s leading bloggers: Darla Mack of darlamack.com and Bena Roberts of Gomo News. I managed to quickly snap this — can you tell it was quickly? — whilst at the ShopStoppers event last night.
Continue ReadingSir Richard is giving one of the keynotes at CTIA Wireless this morning. I’m heading off early to make sure I get some sort of seat. I hope there’s power for the laptop
I wonder what he’ll be saying? If there’s a chance for questions at the end, I am definitely [...]
Worth a read…
Link: The media industry’s rising stars: top 40 under 40 - Times Online
We present our list of “40 under 40†people from the media industry in its broadest sense - embracing broadcasting, computer games, venture capital and mobile technology. Most are up and coming; some have already made it.
Ricky was, for a while, a prolific contributor to SMS Text News. It was with a degree of sadness that we bade him farewell the other week — I say a degree, because we are absolutely delighted to hear he has become an Ambassador.
Alas, I don’t think the role includes a palatial [...]
Even while battling to save its mobile phones division, Motorola has brought in a new CFO, and oddly enough, CEO Greg Brown chose to look outside the company’s current ranks for the position. Paul Liska, who previously held the title of CFO at Sears, Roebuck, and Co, will step in on March 1 as the [...]
Continue ReadingI like, many, was watching closely to see what Pat Phelan of SMS Text News sponsor, MAXroam, made of Mobile World Congress. It was, I gather, his first event. I wondered what he thought of it. He’s a busy chap — a veritable tornado of energy and it’s always a challenge guessing what continent [...]
Continue ReadingI always peer closely to see what venture capitalists are doing. So it was with some interest that I noted David Hytha, formerly Executive VP of Terminals at T-Mobile Europe, has joined Sofinnova Ventures. David was part of the team who launched Web’n’Walk, the first major carrier in my experience to launch open access [...]
Continue ReadingAnother piece of Blyk news after today’s BlykWatch diary: MobileToday are reporting that Dean Merrion, former head of Sales, Online & Marketing at Virgin Mobile has joined Blyk as Director of Member Sales and Marketing.
Every success Dean!
Caroline Lewko, founder of the Wireless Industry Partnership has joined Trutap as a Non-Executive Director — congratulations Caroline!
Continue ReadingMTV’s Executive VP or Digital Distribution and Business Development, Greg Clayman, was recently caught at a National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) event and asked about mobile. The video can be found on MoCoNews.net, it’s under 6 minutes long and he gives a bit of insight into where mobile content will be headed in [...]
Continue ReadingWith Nielsen recently revealing that 46 million mobile users used mobile search functions in Q3 2007, the marketplace for mobile search and advertising is hotting up. Right there in the middle of it is JumpTap.
Business is good at JumpTap — so much so, they’re busy extending their team — and they’ve just hired [...]
PhoneBoy, other wise known as Dameon Welch-Abernathy (that’s definitely Scottish descent, it must be!), has been kind enough to take some time out his schedule and answer some questions from SMS Text News. Although intimately acquainted with Nokia (Dameon’s day job is with Nokia’s Software and Services division in the Security Support Services Product [...]
Continue ReadingNice one Stéphane and congratulations on the appointment!
SpinVox, the founder and global leader of Voice-to-Screen messaging, today announced the appointment of Stéphane Dubois as general manager for France. Dubois brings nearly 11 years of diverse management experience with LogicaCMG to SpinVox expanding European operations.
Initially joining LogicaCMG as a pre-sales engineer in [...]
Nice one Bob. Virgin Mobile have been doing some super things in the States (and beyond). Whenever people mention the phrase ’successful MVNO’ they generally point to Virgin.
Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that Bob Stohrer, currently Vice President of Brand & Integrated Marketing, has been tapped as the company’s new Chief Marketing [...]
Did you hear Om Malik had a heart attack? Good news that he’s ok and recovering.
I wish you a speedy recovery, Om!
Link: A Heart-to-Heart with GigaOM Readers - GigaOM
Happy New Year. As you may have noticed, my byline hasn’t been up on the site for a few days. That’s [...]
Daniel R. Hesse, who was recently named the new President and CEO of Sprint Nextel, Inc, is going about taking care of other business surrounding his new job. The first of which, apparently, includes resigning from his position on the Board of Directors for our favorite Finnish company, Nokia.
Hesse has served on the board [...]
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