Don’t bother reading on if the headline means nothing to you. It’s geekery time. It is most definitely time for the ‘science bit’. Yes. Howler Tech is live. Dan Lane and Ed Hodges — regular contributors here at Mobile Industry Review — have come out of the shadows. If you’ve ever spoken to them or [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Palm Pre: 8GB on board; 3mp camera
The specs are officially up for the Palm Pre. Sprint went live with the details today according to MobileCrunch. I popped over to the Sprint.com site and had a look. I’m a customer, dontcha know? Not a very good one, because I’m sat in the UK at the moment — but Sprint, controversially, is my [...]
THIS is why Twitter rocks — direct connectivity to developers
Here’s a note from regular MIR reader, Simon Maddox. It’s one for the ‘why does Twitter *actually* rock’ pile… – – – – – Hey Ewan, Think I’ve found one of the best reasons why Twitter rocks. I tweeted this earlier: Dear GitX: if I click “delete branch”, I’d like to confirm that before it [...]
MIR Developers: Masabi’s Mobile Ticketing Part 1
The Masabi chaps, Ben Whitaker and his colleague Ed, are known to the MIR team. Not only are they widely acknowledged as good guys, they’re also doing some really shit-hot mobile application development. Specifically in the mobile ticketing/transaction arena. This is Part 1 — Ben gives us an introduction to Masabi. MIR Developers: Masabi’s mobile [...]
Gmail lets you put your current location on your email footer
So this is a rather nifty addition, isn’t it? If you’re like to really wind up the people you’re emailing (or, hugely annoy your boss), you can have Google automatically do a lookup on your current IP location and stick that in your footer. It’s only for Gmail at the moment. That’s Gmail on the [...]
Busy, busy and thrice busy
I’ve got about 50 posts to get up. And I’m not entirely sure how to do this. Over the past few days I’ve been sent a veritable riot of interesting things. Whilst I’ve certainly been hitting the archive button liberally (“Hello [insert name here], I see you’re on the MWC press list, I wonder if [...]
How’s your iPhone advertising performing?
Are any MIR readers actively advertising products and services on the iPhone platform? I’m asking because I saw this Tweet from Mark Curtis, top chap at mobile dating/flirting site, Flirtomatic: We bought iPhone advertising for the first time yesterday: very impressive results for first campaign…..clearly volume in the UK alone.. I’m keen to hear more [...]
Is the stylus indicative of shoddy UI design?
I can’t stand styluses on mobile phones. I think you not only look stupid, you also feel very stupid using them. Are there any MIR readers who actually *like* using handsets with a stylus?
RingRing Media does $4m in 8 months
It’s a good day for RingRing Media. The new mobile advertising start-up is flying with over $4m of ad revenues booked in just 8 months. What a result for the chaps! During the last 8 months, RingRing Media has. delivered average campaign click through rates of 5. percent, with conversion rates ranging from 25 -75 [...]
Nott Tuesday was rocking into the night
I zoomed up to Nottingham last night courtesy of an East Midlands train that got me to The Cape bar, 23 Victoria Street, just shy of 7pm. Nott Tuesday, brainchild of Esendex co-founder and multi-triathlon genius, Adam Bird, was conceived just a month ago to bring the technology community of Nottingham together. And it worked. [...]
LG’s new phone pleases the arena
Lucky Goldstar has pre-empted Mobile World Congress, just like many others already have and no doubt many more will this week by unveiling to the unsuspecting public a new handset they’ll be taking to Barcelona next week. It’s a mobile phone they’re calling the LG Arena or the LG-KM900, if you want to get all [...]
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