Got another interesting pitch in for Mobile World Congress and published on the MWC Pitch system. It’s from Skuku and you can vote for them here. A quick overview: Skuku puts the power of VoIP into your SIM card. Keep your mobile phone number and pay only local rates from anywhere in the world. International [...]
Archive | January, 2009
First MWC pitch from a startup founder
We’ve had our first MWC pitch from a startup founder and I reckon we should give him a bit of attention. This one didn’t come from a $500m company. Instead it came from Maarten Lens-FitzGerald of Zcapes. Here’s what he’s got to say: Zcapes aims to be world’s leading mobile website and contextual-aware service for [...]
Vote for the companies you’d like us to interview at MWC
We’re offering you something a bit different here for Mobile World Congress. As you may know, around this time, our inboxes start filling up with hundreds of pitches and event/interview invitations from public relations and marketing people eager to in front of you. Usually these pitches are lost on you, dear reader. Because they never [...]
You pick what PR pitches we accept for Mobile World Congress
Crowdsource? Or is it crowd-approve? I don’t know. I’m going to get a Digg-style Mobile Industry Review system setup shortly that will enable all our readers to review every single PR pitch we’ve received in connection to the upcoming Mobile World Congress. We’ll add every single one we’ve got and that we receive. Anything that [...]
The T-Mobile G1: The Whatley Response
Morning Folks, Happy New Year from yours truly and what not. I had a brief moment yesterday (while chilling out in front of my laptop) when I came across Ed Hodges’ MIR post covering his thoughts on the G1. Some of you may remember that back in November, Ed himself was there when I first [...]
An idea about Mobile World Congress
Do you think it’s worth us publishing all the PR pitches we receive for the upcoming Mobile World Congress? I am getting a bit disappointed by the amount of pitches and invitations we’re receiving. The disappointment is fueled by the knowledge that there’s no way we’ll be able to cover them all ‘properly’ — with [...]
Device complexity is killing normob upgrades
For the technological “geeks†out there, using a mobile is as simple as opening the front door. There’s no thought, no confusion, and for the most part complete understanding of what it is that you’re doing. Some people, as I very well know, are not blessed with this kindred ability to use anything that has [...]
ShoZu Photo Of The Day: Freezin’ February Morning
Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day was contributed by MIR team member, Samantha (her weekly column goes live today at 1pm). Here’s Samantha’s reasoning: I’ve chosen this is because I was walking to school on a frozen Febuary morning last year; and I had my D600 (then my mobile) out, and I saw how the [...]
Lord Mobile of Norwich, Stephen Fry, answers AQA questions
Lord Mobile — he of the 7 iPhones-in-his-pocket — the national treasure that is Stephen Fry, has answered some questions for text answering service, AQA. Here’s the first one he answered: Q. Who is Stephen Fry? A. A man trying to get through life without hurting or being hurt. Failing, but trying. For further information, [...]
How to identify the MIR team at Mobile World Congress
This is the beta version of the Mobile Industry Review jacket that we’ll all be wearing at Mobile World Congress. Front: Nice understated branding. And now for the back: We were going to go for BRIGHT RED for the whole jacket but that has two problems. One, it’s a little bit TOO bright. And our [...]
Stop selling Ringtones and start selling Frequency Data
At Every Single One Of Us, Dominic Travers gave a rather insightful presentation for a few minutes on the subject of ‘Frequency’ and it’s value to you, me and the wider world. It really caught my attention and I asked Dominic to convert his thoughts into words. Here’s part one… – – – – – [...]
TheTrainLine’s SMS service: ‘Nuclear Flucking FAIL’
Have a read of this Tweet from Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK: https://www.mobitix.thetrainline.com shit as well. SMS required for registration still hasn’t arrived after an hour. NUCLEAR FUCKING FAIL. Reading between the lines, I’m getting an impression of frustration. Are you? Seriously. When you decide to validate customer handsets with a text function, it’s highly [...]
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