I bumped into Karin from Rubberduck Media Lab at the Nexec networking event during Mobile World Congress. She pitched me on Rubberduck Media Lab (mobile video transcoding experts) and I asked if we could put her on camera the next day. If you’re into mobile video or mobile video transcoding, I think you’ll find them [...]
Archive | March, 2009
RCR Wireless — intelligence on all things wireless — closed today
Goodness me. I was about to write a shocking you-will-not-believe-it piece about the RCR Wireless coverage of SpinVox. I got their newsletter this afternoon and saw red when they took their hatchet to the voicemail-to-text service. I think the fundamentally misunderstood the point of SpinVox, commenting that it often spells transcribed words incorrectly and isn’t [...]
Dan Lane’s for hire: Need help with your mobile tech?
I’ve been badgering Dan to write an overview piece about himself ever since he took a step back from Howler. Whilst his priority is, I suspect, to do a bit of relaxing (from what I saw of Howler, it was fairly full-on, 18 hour days, that sort of thing) I don’t think that should be [...]
Andrew Bud on mBlox’s Sender-Pays Mobile Data offering
At Mobile World Congress, we made a b-line for the mBlox stand to find out more about their Sender-Pays Data offering. It’s highly, highly innovative, still a trial — and only for the UK networks at the moment (with the exception of T-Mobile UK!). Andrew explains the concept in the video, but briefly, here’s the [...]
Motorola’s got some Android handsets due Q4 2009
I’m rather pleased to hear that Motorola has got some Android handsets coming — although not, according to the Financial Times, until Q4 this year. ‘Bout time. The actual quote: Motorola will use Google’s Android operating system for many of its new handsets although they will not go on sale until the fourth quarter of [...]
Nokia N86 in the flesh, in Prague
Over the weekend we headed to Prague to film the latest MIR TV show (it’ll be up and online soon) and took the Nokia N86 with us to give it a once-over. James got hold of it the other week and although he couldn’t join us in Prague, he was good enough to loan it [...]
How quickly could a ‘new Twitter’ take off?
I was having a read of this piece by Jemima Kiss over at The Guardian this morning: Facebook and Twitter: We couldn’t agree on a takeover price. And then TweetyMike popped up in my Tweetdeck with this question on the same subject: Gets one thinking: how quickly could a new Twitter take off? Was passing [...]
Andrew Bud gives mBlox overview
We caught up with Andrew Bud, Executive Chairman of mobile services provider, mBlox. We talked with Andrew for a good 25 minutes at the mBlox stand at Mobile World Congress. In this video, Andrew gives an overview of the mBlox service — very useful if you’ve seen them around but always wondered what they do. [...]
MIR TV pops into the Prague Vertu Shop
“Shall we go in?” asks Ben Smith. “Errrrr,” say I. I’m thinking about the possible catalogue of problems that could occur. “It’s the Vertu Shop. We’re in Prague. Let’s go in and see if they’ll let us do some filming?” prompts Ben. “Errrrrrrr,” I repeat, still processing the potential issues. The biggest issue in my [...]
+49 German inbound SMS numbers launched by TynTec
If you’ve been hunting for a German version of the ubiquitous +44 UK long numbers, consider taking a look at TynTec’s latest offering. They’ve launched the 12-digit phone numbers today — to join their UK and Finnish offerings. ‘Long numbers’ (i.e. numbers that look like normal mobile phone numbers, but usually only receive SMS) are [...]
World Exclusive: N86 extended test in Prague
There’s plenty of video upcoming from our trip to Prague this weekend including an exclusive first-look at the N86 in real-world conditions – as you can see above it’s a tough life, this international playboy-blogger thing we’ve got going on right now… But, Hi-Def video takes some time to edit and publish (see the MWC [...]
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