It’s been no secret that Nokia was considering a move into the laptop space. Indeed the company’s CEO has made comments to this effect now and again for quite a while. Well, it’s here. The first generation “Nokia Booklet” will be hitting shelves soon. And it’s a looker. First, let’s have some pictures: This is [...]
Archive | August, 2009
23,000 developers on Mobango already!
DO you remember the post I published last week on Mobango? I was very interested to see that they’ve launched a mobile applications section — so I was delighted to get this email from Mobango’s Chief Operating Officer, Vittorio Maffei, with a little more detail on their recent operations. Have a read! Hi Ewan Thanks [...]
Orange launches LG’s £500 Touchscreen Watchphone
Want a phone in your watch? Of course you do. Here’s what the LG Touchscreen Watchphone looks like: Gorgeous. The handset goes on sale next week (27th August) in the Orange store by Bond Street Station in central London. It’ll set you back 500 quid. You can buy only one each. Expect them to fly [...]
Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, on Orange’s Social Life service
I had a note in from Carsten Brinkshulte, the CEO of Synchronica, who saw the piece we published yesterday on Orange’s launch of their ‘Social Life’ service. Synchronica are all about sync — in particular, their Mobile Gateway (push email for everyone) and Mobile Backup services are being enjoyed by customers of many an operator. [...]
TalkTalk launches Put-Pocketing scheme to give £20s back
Heh. Have a look at this viral from Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk: Here’s the explanation: A new initiative is turning pickpocketing on its head by using ex-pickpockets to put money into Briton’s pockets on the sly. “Put-Pocketing†is the act of secretly putting money into someone’s pocket without them noticing, and is the challenge faced by [...]
Flirtomatic walk-about office tour & strategy chat by Mark Curtis
After today’s Flirtomatic news I thought you might like to see the CEO, Mark Curtis, show the Mobile Developer TV audience around Flirtomatic’s London office. We filmed this a few months ago: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video And I strongly, strongly recommend you get a coffee and sit down to [...]
Flirtomatic hits Australia with NineMSN deal
It’s yet another good day at Flirtomatic towers with the news that they’ve signed a deal with Australia’s uber-massive NineMSN service. I just had a note in from Flirtomatic’s CEO, Mark Curtis with the details: Ewan – g’day. We couldn’t resist the temptation to announce we are launching in Australia today just as the final [...]
Orange launches ‘Social Life’ one-stop-shop and Widget Player
Two things out of Orange UK today. One is ‘Social Life’ — a one-stop-shop system available from the Orange World portal, that brings Facebook, MySpace and Bebo together in one place. This means users can easily view and their updates via these three social networks through a single log-in. And you can also opt for [...]
GPush app pushes your Gmail to your Apple iPhone
I just had a note in from the chaps at Tiverias Apps to tell me about their latest addition to the iPhone App Store — ‘GPush’. It does what it says on the tin. Making use of the relatively new Apple push-update function, GPush prompts you with the subject and sender of mail sent to [...]
Come on! Dell’s Mini 3i Android handset hits China
I’ve been speculating about the possibility of machine-making giant, Dell, going Android for sometime. Back in mid-June, the world had an apparent glimpse of an Android prototype — but I’ve been worrying (and, I do worry) that Dell might go the Windows Mobile route. There’s nothing massively wrong with Windows Mobile nowadays. It’s mediocre/dire. It [...]
Journalist enquiry – Green IT in Asia?
I got this in from a colleague today and thought some of our Far Eastern readers might know somebody who’d be interested in being profiled by an internationally renowned publication. Here’s the enquiry: Wondered if you could point me in the right direction. My publication has asked me to find an Asian company that’s taking [...]
50 inch mobile screens coming soon
Former MIR writer, Rob Ashwell, is getting very excited about the next big thing in mobile: Pico projectors. Over to Rob… – – – – – There are countless things that frustrate me about mobile phones. Top of the list is the inability to easily (if at all) transfer the dictionary that I’ve built over [...]
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