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Link: Ten Things I Want From You « Tech Evolution In A Wirefree World
Ian Hay is a strategic advisor to telecoms companies — and in particular, Orange, at the moment. He recently posted a wickedly interesting blog to document the ten things he wanted from a mobile operator…
I thought it would be useful to [...]
We’ve a lot going on with our new data centre business, DCMI. Part of the range of activities is, of course, a publicity and marketing campaign. On the conference call earlier I said I’d hunt for an article that The Guardian wrote about one of my older companies, Liv4now.com, and send it over [...]
Continue ReadingLink: techype
Seems that Mr Doug Richards of Dragon’s Den fame has been meeting with the great and the good of the mobile technology blogging world (see Mr Hume, The Mobhappy folk and SMSTextNews - BTW read the comments on this one, they are brilliant) but no invite for myself and Raddedas Our great sadness [...]
Link: Favorite Gadget: Nvidia CIO’s BlackBerry - vnunet.com
There’s a quantum shift happening in the marketplace. We’ve done Blackberry. We really have. Been there. T-shirts. Got’em. It is no longer cool, nor slightly hip to tell Forbes magazine that your favourite gadget is an 8700 Blackberry.
Check out George’s interview [...]
Remember the text message race I wrote about the other week? Man vs machine? Well, it took place.
Nuance’s Mobile Dictation system trounced the competition with a 16.32 seconds time. Here’s the gossip:
In a classic match-up of man vs. machine, Ben Cook, recently crowned the world champion of text messaging, raced against [...]
Link: Hotline On Call: On The Download: SMS Politics
Super coup for Justin Oberman of mopocket.com — the publication of record on American Politics, the National Journal’s The Hotline, has published an overview of SMS text and politics. You remember there was a roundtable going on about this? I was going to go along until [...]
Got this in from Dave at Schwartz who correctly predicted I’d be interested!
Nuance, if you haven’t come across’em, are a leading provider of speech recognition systems to business and consumers around the world. Now, here’s the rub. They’re putting their money where their mouth is — they’ve got hold of Ben Cook, the [...]
Link: Simon Bury of Orange joins Dialogue
Dialogue Communications, one of the UK’s leading mobile aggregators, has appointed mobile solutions expert, Simon Bury, to the position of business development manager, as the company continues to expand and broaden its market offering.
Congratulations Simon!
Continue ReadingCan you list your sexual partners? Hmm. Ok, failing that, can you list every single mobile phone model you’ve owned?
Why? Because it’s important to know where you’ve come and where the industry’s come from — to help frame where it’s all going.
Thus, my challenge to everyone is to list [...]
Link: On TV - The Gadget Show
Alex caught this on TV last night. I was watching Spooks
So Jason decided to do his bit to expose himself, so to speak, and build the world’s very first Life Cam.
The concept of Life Cam is to create a device capable of taking an image every [...]
Link: Musings of a mobile marketer: Carnival of the Mobilists No 48
ow time flies. It only seems like 5 minutes since I last hosted the Carnival of the Mobilists but here I am again with Carnival Number 48.
Helen named checked Alfie’s recent monologue published here in this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists. Nice one Helen!
Link: Springwise: New hotel includes work space for non-guests.
I would have used this today instead of having to screw about with Starbucks and All Bar One!
The Hoxton Hotel just opened its doors in a hip neighbourhood in London’s East End. Besides the usual meeting spaces for guests, the Hoxton also offers private offices for non-guests. [...]
I first came across Michael Tchong in 1998. At that time, Michael was running a weekly newsletter called ICONOCAST - founded in 1997, it was a cross between marketing, media, the burgeoning web — and quite a bit before the whole dotcom period. I read it for about 4 weeks before plucking up the courage [...]
Continue Reading I’ve published two blogs about The Messaging Centre ("TMC") so far — the first was about their SMS service for appointment reminders and the second, more recently, was about how their recently introduced SMS communications system for Tubelines was very well received.
I took a closer look at what TMC were doing. Two way [...]
For a long time I’ve been really frustrated that I couldn’t find a comprehensive ‘who’s who’ of people in Mobile. I wanted it for reference and for networking. I wanted to know who the right people were to speak to.
What’s more, I wanted to be able to whack people in this directory a message with [...]
I’ve been talking to Alex on and off by email and over IM for quite a while now, particularly as he’s been making some really valid (and brilliantly cynical comments and contributions) here on the blog for some time. As Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of SendMyTxt, his comments come with the context, awareness and [...]
Continue ReadingLink: Telegraph | News | Tyre-slasher targets drivers on mobiles.
A vigilante, who slashes the tyres of motorists who talk on their mobile telephones while driving, is being hunted by police.
More on the Telegraph site!
Continue ReadingI think I have actually met Steve Procter of iTAGG.com only once - at a big internet/mobile conference years ago. However I know him. At least, I feel I do. We’ve communicated enough through the years, generally online, by email or by phone. (That’s half of him on the left there).
We’ve used iTAGG at [...]
I don’t recall how I first came across ShopQwik. I think I’d posted a wicked article about Reporo and how easy it was to buy a DVD via the service, when I saw a note from Mark of ShopQwik saying words to the effect of ‘if you liked Reporo, wait until you see what we’ve [...]
Continue ReadingI was caught sleeping.
I didn’t know Orange UK had launched an unlimited plan.
It was actually a mail from Dan Lane that called my attention to this news. Dan is Managing Director of BlackFin Ltd. (Incidentally I have a lot to write about BlackFin soon). Back to Orange: No one told me. No PR. [...]
MY KINGDOM FOR A PROPER MOBILE
Prince Harry is pictured in the Telegraph with his girlfriend at the Polo yesterday. In the bottom left of the picture, you can see a bog standard Nokia handset on Vodafone propped up in front of him. I coulds see the Vodafone brand on the back of the phone and [...]
Link: Women in Mobile 15 - Katrin Verclas at m-trends.org.
Excellent interview by Rudy De Waele…
Katrin runs her day job in an organization called N-TEN—an umbrella association of nonprofit technologists and the people that provide technology service to nonprofits and civil society organizations. She is also very involved in MobileActive. MobileActive is [...]
I was listening to the Scott Mills Daily podcast this evening. (Scott Mills is a radio DJ who runs the late afternoon slot on BBC Radio 1, one of the country’s biggest non-commercial radio stations — an audience of millions).
Scott was interviewing Janet Jackson and asking her a whole range of questions — when he [...]
I’ve been following 82ask.com ever since it launched. The simplicity and value of the service really astounded me — it’s one of just a few truly innovative services. I can remember thinking the consumer brand, 82ask, was a work of genius. Not only is it distinctive, it also spells out their dedicated shortcode.
Generally speaking, [...]
Just in case you’re sat in sunny South America wondering exactly what the 160 Characters network event was like, here are some videos.
Here’s a quick pan up and around the pub garden:
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And here’s me showing the N90’s video functionality. It’s a bit limited in terms of entertainment value. In fact it contains a few [...]
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