It’s time for another video from the MIR Developer Networking event. Next up is James Pycock, Business Development Director of Fun Text. Fun Text are ALL about modified greetings messaging. They’ve been hard at it this year. Having gone live with Sprint, T-Mobile and 3, Fun Text are also hitting the handsets directly so as [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Rumour: Vodafone’s going Android with HTC
So says the rumour/rumour confirmed mill: AndrewGrill: RT @feebeyer: Rumor confirmed: Vodafone will launch own Android Phone with HTC at it’s press conference at #MWC on February 17th. Handelsblatt, page 17 Could very well be a rather exciting MWC…
This week on MIR
This week we’ve got quite a lot for you. 1. Dominic Travers’ follow up to his hugely popular Frequency post (“Stop selling ringtones and start selling Frequency Data“). 2. An excellent submission from an entirely new contributor on the joys of Sky+ and mobile. 3. The last — but certainly not least — videos from [...]
The madness that is MWC begins next week
I’m looking forward to Mobile World Congress next week. The action begins officially on Sunday evening. We’ve got a few interviews booked across Monday and Tuesday then the rest of the week is pretty empty. Deliberately so. It’s been rather difficult looking at all the email pitches that come in from the PRs. Almost every [...]
Mobile World Congress Hotel Rooms from 270 a night
It is silly season in Barcelona with the Mobile World Congress fast approaching. If you’re going, but haven’t yet booked a place, you might want to know about the following. We’re all sorted. We’ll be there — we got an apartment nearby apparently with WiFi. We’ll see about that. I publish this as a public [...]
RumourMill: Expansys springs another leak
Once again, that favourite online leaker, sorry online reseller has done it again by pre-announcing yet another phone by opening up its ordering. This time around it’s Samsung, with their BlackBerry-esque C6625 and way before it’s even been confirmed as an actual phone by the vendor. It’s as if they’re not even trying anymore or [...]
RumourMill: Leaked images of Samsung’s new 8MP camera phone appears
On Wednesday we brought you exclusive news of a new Samsung phone being launched on Monday. Now images have ever-so-coincidentally appeared on the mobile news site Daily Mobiles of an unannounced phone, which could very well be the Samsung Acme i8910. The website has some stunning high quality pictures located here, showing off Samsung’s 3rd [...]
Google Latitude’s #1 Problem Can’t Be Fixed
You can’t fix trust. Not with a click of a button. Have a read of this: 1 in 3 Australians will snoop in the phones of their partners (according to a Virgin Mobile survey). 60% of them do it when their partner is in the shower. 41% do it with their partner in view. (quote [...]
Speakers required for The MIR Twitter Summit
I’m hosting a Twitter Summit. I get it now. I’ve always got the status concept — and the ‘immediate immediacy’ that is Twitter. But I’ve been seriously, seriously bothered by the complete and unmitigated rubbish that many Twitter users engage in (e.g. I had bacon for breakfast. It was nice.) Having found a way of [...]
Stephen Fry tops Twitter (well almost)
Stephen Fry now over 100,000 followers, only out ranked by Obama himelf. Kevin Rose seemed quite upset when Mr Fry overtook him (in a past Diggnation broadcast), well now Mr Fry has swept away and jumped several places ahead. It shows his popularity when he’s only beaten by the President of the United States, it [...]
Google makes book mobile
Google has launched its mobile books service whereby the 1.5m books that it has scanned are available to mobile users as well as traditional desktop users. Google hopes to fight of Amazon’s Kindle which has sold 1/2m to date (Sprint estimates from users downloading books). Amazon is expected to launch the Kindle v2 later this [...]
Microsoft’s very own Smartphone at MWC
The rumours of Microsoft releasing it’s very own smartphone at Mobile World Congress continue apace. This week, it’s Doug Freedman of Broadpoint AmTech — which sounds very much like an analyst firm — reckoning that Microsoft will announce their own smartphone at Mobile World Congress shortly. If they brought one out running Android, I’d certainly [...]
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