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MIR Show - Week 48 - James Body, Truphone & Simon Davis, MobGeo

Today we bring you a lighthearted James Body, Research Director at Truphone (Hello to James’ son, Sebastian, who is a regular viewer of the MIR Show). Then we talk with Simon Davis of MobGeo.com. If you’re interested in mobile advertising, I’m sure Simon’s product demo will be very interesting indeed.

Ewan | December 3rd, 2008 | Continued
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MIR Show - Week 48 - Future of Mobile Walkabout 4

It’s the fourth (and, I think final) walkabout from Future of Mobile. We’ve still a few more interviews to bring you — but today we deliver an array of staff from MIR favourite, Mobyko, along with mobile enthusiasts Claire from Mobile Monday Amsterdam and of course, Mr Mobile himself, Tomi Ahonen.

Ewan | December 2nd, 2008 | Continued
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MIR Show - Week 48 - Future of Mobile Walkabout 3

Here’s the third of the Future of Mobile Walkabouts that we did — featuring, amongst others, Alfie Dennen, co-founder of Moblog.

Ewan | December 1st, 2008 | Continued
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MIR Show - Week 46 - Rich Miner from Google.

Rich Miner is Group Manager of Mobile Platforms at Google. He spoke recently at the Future of Mobile conference and Ben managed to grab him for a chat as he came off stage. Here’s the interview…

Ewan | November 28th, 2008 | Continued
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MIR Show - Future of Mobile Walkabout 2

Here’s the second walkabout video from the Future of Mobile conference featuring a location-obsessed Mike Stead of INQ along with conference panelist and mobile expert Helen Keegan.

Ewan | November 27th, 2008 | Continued

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Published by RobK on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 19:45 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 18:31 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ben Smith on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 18:20 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 16:05 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Just seen on the product floor is a new external battery charger for the Nokia phones. As expected this is charged from a normal Nokia power adapter, which then in turn recharges the phone when needed. Unfortunately, it’s only good for one charge of the handsets battery. Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous) Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 16:02 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Announced this week is Nokia’s  first ever mobile broadband USB dongle Crossing both 2.5 and 3G networks its due out soon, with carries to be mentioned in due course. Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous) Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 15:54 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Coming from those bright bright guys at Nokia labs is the new concept of 3D video, without the need for those attractive red green glasses.  We’ve seen a working beta version on an N800, which looks rather like those magic eye pictures of yesteryear - only with video.  Already a year in development, it looks [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 15:36 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
We’ve also just seen the 3D landmarks feature update over the air too, from web client too series 60 handset. Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous) Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 15:26 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
We’ve just seen a live demo of a favourite location being added to Ovi maps, where a local is added on the web version then updated over the air to a series 60 device.  Here’s the proof. Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous) Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 14:56 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
From their 14th Nokia World event comes the announcement of Ovi messaging now supporting more email and IM clients than ever before. Hurrah! They’ve finally got the message, received the signal, opened the missive – you get where we’re going with this – with the inclusion of the most frequently used mailing and messaging solutions around. Over [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 13:21 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Samantha on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 10:30 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 02:35 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 02:24 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
There we go, another email in from the AdMob chaps. We run AdMob advertising code on the Mobile Industry Review ‘mobile’ version of the site. If you wanted to see what it looks like when you get a payment from them, here we go: Almost $33 dollars of pure joy for the month! Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 02:14 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Jason at TechCrunch picked this one up via MacRumours: Apple’s App Store has finally given developers the ability to release up to 50 promotional codes for their applications, allowing them distribute their apps to press and friends free of charge directly through the App Store. This is going to be really, REALLY useful for developers. We’re [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 02:05 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ewan on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 00:53 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by RobK on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 18:11 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
We thought we’d try and bring you some minor rounds up of things we’ve discovered over the day. These items really fall under the ‘no major category’ heading where we can’t really write 1000+ words on the subject matter, but it’s still worth passing along. The first comes from why the Nokia 5800 hit those select [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 16:07 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Whatley on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 11:37 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
So, the Nokia N97 eh? What do you think of THAT?! Me? Hmm… Well, you all know what I thought of the last Nseries I laid my hands on and so when it comes to the newly announced Nokia N97, I approached with a certain amount of trepidation… And my initial impressions? – I’m maybe just a [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 10:06 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Yes we rub shoulders with all the great Statesmen here at Mobile Industry Review. Tom Watson? Tom man. Peter ‘The Business’ Mandleson? Right on. All in a night’s work for us. Well, not really. I was, as I wrote last night, rather curious as to what merited the invitation to this Digital Pioneers [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 10:04 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
The Nokia executive vice president of markets, Anssi Vanjoki just announced the N97 will be around for 550 Euros. Although don’t hold your breath for it’s arrival, as it’s been scheduled for release at some point first half of 2009. Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous) Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 10:03 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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Published by Ewan on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 09:41 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Nokia’s executive vice president of markets Anssi Vanjoki, made a point of pointing out the point that Wired made. Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous) Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 2nd December 2008, 09:38 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
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