It took 6 minutes for me to come into contact with America’s handset reality. “And your purpose for visiting?†the chap asked. I was standing at the Las Vegas US Customs & Immigration border having my fingers printed. “Business, the mobil conference,†I said. The chap nodded. “What’s your occupation?†I thought I’d keep it [...]
Archive | March, 2009
Standby, changes ahead
Mobile Industry Review as you knew it is no more. Over the next few days I’ll be morphing the site into it’s next iteration. Standby for more soon…
Will Walsh on MMS greetings from Sharpcards
Will Walsh is CEO of MMS (and EMMA) greetings service provider, Sharpcards. I fired some questions over to him recently to find out more about what they’re doing in the space. Will was good enough to answer some of the rather direct questions I had! Here we go… – – – – – Give us [...]
141,000 reasons why the UK mobile industry is nailed
I got the PhonePayPlus (the British Premium Rate regulator) newsletter in this morning. More dire reading. Another 141,000 pounds worth of fines. Here is just one sample of the ‘breaches upheld’ (or the areas of issue) for one company: Adequate Technical Quality, Fairness (Misleading), Inappropriate Promotion, Subscription Reminders Is this still where everyone’s making real [...]
Text the school nurse for a morning-after pill
The morning-after emergency contraceptive pill is to be made available to schoolgirls at six schools in Oxfordshire here in the UK. And the medium of request is text messaging. If you’ve been having a bit of jiggery-pokery and you think the contraception might have failed; or if you didn’t bother and you’re in a blind [...]
Enter to win Miss Great Britain via Flirtomatic
Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic dropped me a note to tell me all about their new sponsorship deal. Attention please those at the back. Yes, Flirtomatic ARE sponsoring Miss Great Britain 2009… Please excuse me whilst I browse the Miss Great Britain 2008 gallery for an appropriate picture to illustrate this post. Talk amongst yourselves. [...]
TerreStar’s first satellite-terrestrial smartphone
Fancy a smartphone that works with a ‘virtual handshake between satellite and a next-generation terrestrial network’? This piqued my interest… TerreStar’s service will enable users to be reliably and securely connected to the network through a virtual handshake between the satellite and a next-generation terrestrial network. Integrating these technologies will create an unparalleled network-based communications [...]
Will SMS ever become mainstream for small business?
I got a reminder yesterday from my dental practice. By text message. Here’s how it read: Ewan, this is just a reminder that you have an appointment tomorrow at 10am. [insert name of practice] Good service, no? Aye. I was very impressed. They’d obviously taken my phone number and decided to follow up with a [...]
Q: Could we run Sony Ericsson better? A: Yes
Did you catch the FierceWireless newsletter this evening? It leads with super embarrassing headline: Should Sony Ericsson throw in the towel? I think that’s mighty polite of the FierceWireless chaps. I was particularly taken with this paragraph from FW’s Lynnette Luna: Now Sony Ericsson’s bailout plan appears to be more high-end phones with high quality [...]
ArrivedOK tells your friends/family when you… arrived OK
Ah hah. Another neat idea that came flying into my inbox this afternoon. It’s called ArrivedOK. The concept is that when you arrive at your destination (successfully) you usually turn on your mobile. When you do this, ArrivedOK will automatically tell all your nominated friends/loved ones/Twitter/Blog/Facebook folk that you’ve arrived ok. Peace of mind. Especially [...]
KeeMobile launches soon
I had a note in from Tim Belfall of Condico Mobile. Here it is…. Hi Ewan The great thing about MIR is the cross range of subjects, personalities, entertainment and news, so it is a very sad loss that MIR is disappearing for the greater majority of viewers. Graham Higginson and myself are putting together [...]
Wither instant messaging (Nokia?)
Malcolm Murphy always has an interesting perspective on the mobile market. Nokia’s acquisition of OZ Communications really caught his attention — have a read… – – – – – If the price Nokia paid to acquire OZ Communications has been made public, I haven’t seen it anywhere. I’m incredibly curious to know, not least because [...]
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
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The Smartphone sales stats for last quarter are out… have a read!
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Ronan Dunne, O2′s CEO hosted an #o2tweetup this evening: I was there, it was brilliant!
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LBF Digital Minds conference: Get the early bird discount!
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11 Questions with the GSMA’s marketing chief, Michael O’Hara
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Jerome: (Little bit of advertising here, sorry about that)...
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Ewan: I have been thinking about that Iain......
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