Archive | June, 2009

Mr Operator on Nokia and Touchnote Mobile

Not 8 hours after I’d posted the MIR 3.0 update, I had a note in from Mr Operator. You remember him, right? The uber-senior executive at one of the world’s largest mobile operators who used to drop by MIR with a semi regular dose of reality for the industry? Well he’s back. He was watching [...]

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Tomorrow night, everybody who’s anyone in mobile is at MoMo London

I’m in San Francisco at the moment so I can’t make it out to Mobile Monday London’s hot rocking event tomorrow night. But if you’re around, and if you can get tickets — you need to be quick and you need to pre-register — it should be worth your while. The following innovative companies are [...]

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Why the Nokia E72 Youtube video speaks volumes about Nokia’s comms strategy

Why the Nokia E72 Youtube video speaks volumes about Nokia’s comms strategy

I’m willing to bet that the new Nokia E72 — more details of which (in the form of a video) were uploaded to the Nokia Conversations blog today — on a Sunday — was not a mistake, or an oversight. More and more Nokia have been going direct to the end user. That is, connecting [...]

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Mobile Industry Review 3.0 is here

Mobile Industry Review 3.0 is here

Hello and welcome. It’s me, Ewan! I’m back with version 3.0 of Mobile Industry Review. Before I go into that, I want to take a step back and briefly revisit the previous versions. Mobile Industry Review 1.0 Mobile Industry Review 1.0 was originally named SMS Text News. I started it back in January 2006 when [...]

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Touchnote Mobile profiled on Mobile Developer TV – Episode 9

I’ve another Mobile Developer TV episode for you this morning! Oh yes… check out Touchnote Mobile: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast Here are the shownotes: A good friend of mine, Ed Hodges, first mentioned Touchnote to me back in March. I think I’d come across the company a few months prior — but [...]

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Mobile Monday Silicon Valley – Episode 8

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley – Episode 8

It’s time for Episode 8 of Mobile Developer TV. Want to check it out? Either put Mobile Developer TV into your feeds directly (visit the site here) or check out the video here: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast Here are the shownotes… I flew into San Francisco Airport at 4pm on Monday 1st [...]

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The iPhone continues it’s march to service dominance

What’s so exciting about a new iPhone? On the face of it: A veritable riot of possibilities. I could sense the excitement of the community. This morning at 10am San Francisco time, the stage was set for at least 60 odd minutes of what promised to be a roller-coster ride of pure joy. Only, it [...]

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Symbian giving FREE Nokia 5800 to iPhone developers TODAY

If you’re an iPhone Developer and you’ve always wanted to try developing on Symbian, BUT you don’t have an $800 handset to test on… help is at hand… The first 100 developers to attend today’s Symbian Hackathon at Jillians Bar (across from the Moscone Center) in San Francisco today get a free Nokia 5800. A [...]

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Symbian Foundation: We want to meet iPhone Devs

Symbian Foundation: We want to meet iPhone Devs

It’s no surprise that the Symbian Foundation are keen to meet iPhone developers. No surprise at all. The big problem is for iPhone Developers who want to meet and find out more about the Symbian Foundation. The website just isn’t good enough yet. You can’t watch a 3 minute video on their website and deliver [...]

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The first Android netbook from Acer

Christian Lindholm (who we interviewed in Episode 2 of Mobile Developer TV last week) reckoned that the future of Android lay beyond the mobile handset. He reckons that, as Android develops, it’s going to be integrated into all manner of devices that we might not have expected. For example, it would make sense for a [...]

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Hello everyone from Mobile Monday Silicon Valley

I was filming at Mobile Monday Silicon Valley last night. I came straight off the British Airways flight from London and hopped in a taxi to Palo Alto before digging out the camera equipment and hot footing it round-the-corner to the event. I was there in my capacity as producer of Mobile Developer TV. I met [...]

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