Vojtech has just arrived into London from the Czech Republic. He’s a PR specialist and was instrumental in helping us out during MIR’s visit to the country. He’s a San Francisco veteran and, actually speaks better English than many Californians. Vojtech’s arrived in London to head up the tech section at his PR firm. His [...]
Archive | July, 2009
“No mom, you can’t have a free phone.” The perils of working for a mobile manufacturer.
I’d like to introduce you to the first of the new MIR 3.0 columnists, Surya Nair. Surya is in her mid-twenties and always has a particularly interesting take on the mobile industry. If you’re not following her on Twitter, I recommend you do (username: @suryasnair). Surya was born in South India’s Kerala region and got [...]
Quick note regarding the ‘Scr000007′ posts
You might have seen an avalanche of post notifications for MIR recently, each titled something like ‘Scr000007′. There’s no bug, the fault is mine. User error on my part. Scr000007 is the file name of a screenshot — I sent quite a few of them via ShoZu to Flickr for the upcoming rant that I’m [...]
Have you received your Mobile Industry Review mousepad yet?
Simon Maddox has just received his one. He tweeted a picture: Nice one Simon and congratulations upon being inducted into the MIRB (“the MIR Brotherhood”) as a result. You can get hold of your very own MIR mousepad right here for £8.95 plus delivery.
Nokia’s Ovi let’s the market decide. The market says, ‘no’ (and how to fix it)
Last month I published this post: Nokia Ovi Store launch blows the doors off the mobile industry. Quite a lot of people contacted me to ask if I was feeling ok. Normally I’m a bit of a Nokia-kicker, as apposed to a Nokia cheerleader. I kick because I care. I’ve had a trial Nokia N97 [...]
o2 gets the Palm Pre exclusively in the UK
Rupert over at The Telegraph has the details. Very, very interesting. I’ll post some thoughts on this shortly.
Vodafone and Carphone are friends again
If you remember, back October 2006, Vodafone decided to go-it-alone with the UK’s second largest mobile phone retailer, Phones4U. The removed the UK’s largest chain, Carphone Warehouse, from the roster and gave Phones4U exclusivity. So if you walk into a Carphone Warehouse, even today, you can’t get a Vodafone service. They won’t offer you a [...]
Flirtomatic launches Flirtwords — ‘AdSense’ for users
Super news in from Flirtomatic Towers. I had a note from CEO, Mark Curtis this morning with the details. Have a read… Hey Ewan – I think Neil may have told you but today we’ve launched a new premium service – Flirtwords. It’s quite exciting in a couple of ways…..in essence users can now buy [...]
New MVNA launches; student MVNO is first customer
London-based x-Mobility have just announced the launch of their new Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator (MVNA) service, and at the same time tipped everyone off about a new student Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). So here’s the deal. x-Mobility have an agreement with 3, all the backend (BSS/OSS) systems, a customer care service, plus SIM and [...]
Vodafone’s Access Gateway (femtocell) now available
Are you going to be picking yourself up one of these signal-boosting Vodafone Access Gateways? £160 to buy outright or free on a contract (or, more likely, free if you phone up and complain about genuinely patchy signal.) You just have to plug it into your existing broadband connection. No setup. No arsing around. I’d [...]
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