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Archive | February, 2009
BlackBerry sell 50 million handsets
In news we almost missed this week, Research In Motion came out with their figures from the last quarter with some other interesting stats that we thought we’d bring you. An email wandered past our already massively cluttered desk this week with a mammoth of Mobile World Congress invites. This was on the subject of [...]
ShoZu Photo Of The Day: Like the hat!
Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day is: Andrew Grill writes: I was one of those responsible for the 45% increase in traffic – Shozu (should that be snozu?) for uploads to Flickr via E71 and Shozu And if you’d like to view more of Andrew’s London Snow pictures, get’em here.
Exclusive: INQ not releasing the ‘INQ2′ at Mobile World Congress
At that very same ‘small (but select) gathering at INQ HQ last night, we were informed there will be no new INQ phone unveiled in Barcelona in a few weeks time. INQ’s marketing director Jeff Taylor said in a semi private briefing to MIR there will be no product announcements at MWC. Where many of [...]
Latitude: Google’s Trojan Horse (or, Why Who’s Nearby Is Not A Business)
Andrew is the affable and uber-smart chap behind location based services company, Rummble. The service is described on the site frontpage thus: The easiest way to find people and places nearby that you will like. A Rummble can be any place – restaurant, shop, photo opportunity, a favourite walk. And you must definitely download the [...]
Orange Wednesdays – first Cinema now Pizza Express
If you’re an Orange customer in the UK, you’ll know about Orange Wednesdays. Orange did a deal with the cinema chains here so that, if you go to the cinema (“movies”) on a Wednesday, you can claim 2-for-1 entry. Half price. Nice. This works quite nicely for the cinema chains because it gives them a [...]
The INQ 1- Student Perspective Part 1
The INQ 1 is available on 3 for free on one of their lower contracts at £15 per month, or for £80 on pay as you go. It has been dubbed the ‘Facebook phone’ due to its tight integration with online social networks, including Skype, last fm, MSN to name just a few. EBay integration [...]
Twitter… Preserve it!
Twitter, like Facebook is one of my many online addictions. As bad as it sounds, I’m not quite sure how I would properly function without it… Then again, I’ve always been a little odd. One thing that I love most about Twitter is its openness. Anyone can tweet, anyone can follow, and everyone (whether or [...]
Mxit – South Africa’s No.1 Mobile Social Networking Startup
Hello there! James from mjelly.com here at Mobile Industry Review with another “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week”. Â Last week we covered Mobamingle, a new service coming out of Japan, this week, we continue the international flava with a look at South Africa’s hottest mobile startup -Â the mobile social networking service Mxit. What is it? [...]
Bit of a shame that Scoopt has shut down
I was sent this shut down email from reader Michael who comments: Victim of the Credit Crunch or too niche to survive? A bit of both, perhaps? I’m saddened by the closure of Scoopt — if only because it was right there in my ShoZu send-to sites… just in case. JUST in case I happened [...]
The INQ1 gets an update
At a small (but select) gathering tonight INQ – the makers of the ‘social’ handset the INQ1 – that grew out of the operator Three announced ‘Update 1′, an over-the-air refresh of the INQ1′s application suite which makes a number of improvements and feature-additions. These improve Windows Live Messenger performance, give better general stability, pre-cache [...]
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