Chuck the flowers and buy her a Kindle?

Chuck the flowers and buy her a Kindle?

I like the way this advert from Amazon speaks directly to me. Valentine’s Day? Nice reminder. Gift? Yeah I need to think about that. Oh, a Kindle? Good idea! I like buying technology. That said my wife already uses the Kindle app on her iPhone. But maybe she needs a stand-alone device? It’s better than [...]

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Convention Center saves $50k deploying iPads & FileMaker solution

Here’s a useful case study on how the city of Austin’s Convention Center team have used iPads to replace their old paper folders. It’s yet another example of the consumerisation of the information technology departments. The city of Austin’s Convention Center waves goodbye to over-sized, overstuffed paper binders by deploying iPads and developing custom apps [...]

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The Pre-MWC Drinks Reception: Thank you for coming!

The pre-MWC drinks reception with Hotwire PR took place last night in London. It was absolutely fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet everyone and discuss MWC. There was a simply brilliant array of vendors and brands represented, from e-commerce platforms to aggregators, digital service providers, mobile advertising, telecoms — indeed the selection of [...]

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By 2020, the planet will have 24 billion connected devices – Infographic!

It’s Infographic time thanks to the team at the GSMA. They’ve completed a study of the wide array of product announcements at CES earlier this month. The study shows that more than half of the devices launched are ‘connected‘ in some way (i.e. 3G/4G/WiFi). This is super news for the wireless marketplace. In specific categories, [...]

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Stream Communications launches super-fast 3G data service

I met this company at the UKTI MWC event this week and was thoroughly excited by the possibilities of their offering. I’m having a crazy day today so here’s their press release. Have a read and see what you think: Stream Communications announces the launch of freeflow, a new extra fast 3G service and SIM for [...]

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The Smartphone sales stats for last quarter are out… have a read!

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech just released their quarterly update showing operating system share of smartphone sales. Their stats always make interesting reading. Here’s what Kantar has to say: Apple’s iPhone 4S launch has helped the company regain global momentum with the US driving growth, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. In the latest 12 [...]

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Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit

There’s a mini firestorm brewing this morning around o2 UK. Earlier this morning, Matt Brian over at The Next Web broke the story about a ridiculously shocking privacy breach by o2. Here’s a bit of Matt’s story: If you reside in the UK and you are one of the millions of subscribers to mobile operator [...]

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Bluetooth headsets like this should be outlawed

Bluetooth headsets like this should be outlawed

I can’t stand to see folk wearing Bluetooth in-ear microphone headsets out-and-about. I really can’t. It’s one of those things that seriously winds me up. I have no problem whatsoever with people wearing them for work purposes — delivery drivers, plumbers, you know, folk who have a specific use-case requirement. Sitting on the train wearing [...]

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Operator Innovation: What would happen if an operator actually thought like Apple?

It’s been a little while since I sat down and wrote an operator innovation post. Today I’m doing a lot of speculating. I’m wondering just what it will take for true, exciting services to be offered by an operator. I don’t mean unlimited texts, or fancy calling plans — I mean absolutely new products and [...]

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Season 2 of the 361 Degrees Podcast — Episode 8

Season 2 of the 361 Degrees Podcast — Episode 8

It’s time for the next episode of the 361 Degrees podcast! S02 E08 – Looking forward to 2012 (mp3) [ Direct MP3 download - 34MB ] In our first episode of 2012 we wonder what this year might hold for mobile and offer some predictions: Ewan thinks this will be the year m-commerce goes big. Rafe thinks [...]

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McDonalds: A business critical back-up for the mobile warrior (or why McDonalds ROCKS) #McDStories

I’d like to lighten the load for the marketing team at McDonalds. They’v been dealing with a bit of a TwitterStorm relating to their #McDStories outreach concept. The background to the story is nicely laid out in today’s Financial Times. The FT reports that McDonalds bought two promoted tweets from Twitter encouraging users to contribute [...]

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Audio: And then I used Spreaker on my MacBook

Having used the Spreaker iPhone app to tell you all about my Don Fernando iPhone m-commerce experience (highly positive, by the way), I then thought I’d check out the Spreaker desktop version. I have to say, it’s rather cool. You can immediately start broadcasting your own ‘radio show’ live, which is then archived and presented [...]

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