News has reached us from the colonies that Hutchinson and Vodafone in Australia are set to merge. Will this set a precedent for pairing up elsewhere in the world? In a public statement issued on Hutchinson Whampoa’s website those two telecoms giants announced their intentions of merging, in an equal 50:50 joint venture. When this [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Samsung has a confused Italian touch
Last week we had word there will be a launch of a Samsung mobile on Monday, looks like we were right as they announced the Tocco Ultra Edition. In what’s one of the most misleading product naming of all time, it bears little or no resemblance to the original Tocco handset. Tocco is Italian for [...]
Fun Text to be pre-loaded on Sony Ericsson handset
After attending MIR’s first developer’s event last week (see the video here), we’ve had fantastic news in from the team at Fun Text, who’s application provides a range of professionally-produced media such as ecards, emoticons, viral videos and virtual gifts for inclusion in text and multi-media messages. Â Over to them: Today Sony Ericsson is announcing [...]
O2 launches bovine mobile broadband stick
In what may very well be the oddest looking mobile broadband stick we’ve ever seen, O2 has announced a designer USB dongle with the colourings of a cow. Whilst at the same time milking designer labels, for all they’re worth. This is apparently this seasons must have accessory; a Henry Holland designed under his House [...]
Why you should be looking at BONDI
Come across BONDI recently? We met Tim Haysom, Marketing Director of OMTP at the MIR Developer networking event the other week (see his video). I thought it was time to catch up with OMTP and find out a bit more. Tim Raby, Managing Director of OMTP, answers my questions. 1. Tim, we were thoroughly impressed [...]
Virgin’s going cheap
Virgin Mobile is launching today (9th Feb 2009) a tarrif for £8.50 per month which includes a phone, 100 minutes and 100 texts. Internet costs extra at 30p per day (so that’s about £9 per month extra if used every day). The phones available are the Samsung G600 and the LG KC550 which both have [...]
Vodafone’s Mark Street is live with their MWC blog
Vodafone, ever one of the trailblazers, are live with their Mobile World Congress blog: http://barcelonablog.vodafone.com/ You know I’d love it if they actually did a year-round blog. Anyway. Mark Street, Mr Vodafone, introduces the 2009 blog here with this Youtube upload, filmed on a Vodafone Branded N95: I’ll be keeping an eye on this for [...]
Screw you, Empire Of The Sun and EMI. Screw you with bells on.
What unmitigated dickhead is running music publishing at EMI Music at the moment? I heard a track on the radio last week. Rare because I don’t often listen to live radio. Indeed I’m one of those cash rich and completely hidden customers — a growing trend. My dollars, combined with the dollars of my friends [...]
Blacklisted GetJar now on every operator’s Whitelist
I followed up with Patrick Mork, VP Marketing of GetJar (got a video of him coming from the MIR Developer Networking event). I wanted to know more about how operators are reacting to GetJar nowadays. For a long time, mobile operators were seeing services such as GetJar (effectively a huge, free app store for mobile [...]
Nott Tuesday is tomorrow night and I’m there
I’m heading up to Nottingham tomorrow evening and I’m looking forward to it. If you haven’t come across it before, it’s a new networking event aimed at connecting the tech industry from the Nottingham area. For those reading from abroad, Nottinham is *the* Nottingham. The the spiritual home of Robin Hood, Maid Marian and the [...]
Ben Smith introduces crowd-sourcing for UKTrains
Good man, that Ben Smith! As well as being a MIR Show contributor — and that already sticks him in the pantheon of the Gods as far as I’m concerned — Ben Smith has taken on the rail industry in the UK and left them looking like the damp squids that they are. His UKTrains [...]
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