Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day is from me, Ewan. I confidently asserted over the weekend that ‘this Snow alert rubbish will be over in a day’. Rare is it for the South East of the UK to be trapped under snow for more than a day. And surprise, surprise, the snow is melting this [...]
Archive | February, 2009
BuddyCloud now supports Nokia’s Touch interface
Are you one of the lucky chaps sporting a Nokia 5800? If so, make sure you download a copy of BuddyCloud and give it a test drive — as they now support Nokia’s touch interface. Here’s a note from BuddyCloud top chap, Simon Tennant: – – – – – Ewan, Just a quick note from [...]
ShoZu record 45% traffic uplift from UK snowfall
I dropped a note over to the ShoZu team to ask them if they’d seen much of an increase in traffic from their users as a result of the snowfall across the UK yesterday. I was expecting perhaps 10% increase, maybe 20% — but a 45% increase in uploads? Heh. Brilliant! If you took any [...]
MIR Show upcoming cities!
Having just visited Rome (the first video will be up shortly) here’s the rough list of cities that we’re planning on visiting across the next 6 months. It’s subject to change, but I’ve been getting lots of enquiries from people wondering where we’re headed so I thought I’d post a note up now: – February: [...]
MIR Developers: Rebecca & Kathrin of GoSpoken
Remember we invited 15 interesting companies focusing on mobile development to a small networking event in London last week? Well I promised I’d aim to interview all of them on video and publish them. Thanks very much to DeviceAnywhere for helping support the evening, we’re looking to do more developer centric events soon. Now it’s [...]
MIR Developers: Tim Haysom of OMTP
Remember we invited 15 interesting companies focusing on mobile development to a small networking event in London last week? Well I promised I’d aim to interview all of them on video and publish them. Thanks very much to DeviceAnywhere for helping support the evening, we’re looking to do more developer centric events soon. Here’s Tim [...]
4 Total Hotspots after 72 hours
Well the Total Hotspots application which is a customised version of the Rummble iPhone app has jumped to position 4 in the Utility section of the App Store (for paid apps) in just 72 hours. The app was launched last Fri and appeared on the Gadget show on C5. Total Hotspots located free and paid [...]
Flash for iPhone – not imminent
Though Adobe announced they were working on Flash for the iPhone in Oct 2008, they’ve admitted it’s not that easy and it will still take quite a while. So don’t expect Flash on the iPhone anytime soon.
Vodafone needs to use Voodoo to boost sales of Blackberry Storm – UPDATED
We’ve modified this piece after feedback from Vodafone. Old Story: Vodafone initially saw the Blackberry Storm storm off the shelves at the rate of 20,000 per week, but that’s now dropped to around 6,000. Initially touted at a consumer phone Vodafone want to position it in the SME arena and are training staff to better [...]
‘Twitter is an attention Tragedy Of The Commons in progress’
Have a read of the discussion here and then Mike’s quote below… For people with Discretionary Attention Deficit (DAD) like Ew4n, Twitter is an attention Tragedy Of The Commons in progress. There is no tool except the blunt on-off. Do you agree? Is there a Tragedy of The Commons in progress?
UK snowfall sends AQL traffic up 5x this morning
I just heard from Fliss over at messaging service provider — and regular MIR advertiser — AQL. The saw their traffic hit 300,000 texts before 9am this morning. As AQL top man, Dr Adam Beaumont explains: “Companies can store the mobile numbers of staff or customers with us securely in an online list. If they [...]
MIR Show goes to Rome and finds locals using N73s
We’re still getting to grips with this international-bloggers-of-mystery concept here at the Mobile Industry Review Show. Instead of bringing you updates, perspective and on-the-road tests from somewhere in London, we decided to take the MIR Show on the road. The first stop, of course, was Rome. We flew out on the 730am British Airways flight [...]
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