You know what an RV is, right? For me, the term ‘RV’ (“Recreational Veeeee-hik-ul”) is inextricably linked with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation movie which features a solid line of RV-hilarity, including one chap ‘emptying the shitter’ whilst smoking a cigar, if memory serves. It doesn’t take long for both the RV, the cigar and the [...]
Archive | August, 2009
Cubic Telecom gets into bed with HostelWorld
I’ve long held that the best way for a mobile service provider to get to mainstream audiences is to partner, instead of building their own offerings. Which is what the Cubic Telecom chaps have done with MAXRoam today. They’ve inked a deal with Hostelworld, one of the planet’s largest providers of online reservations to the [...]
Mobango has delivered half a billion content downloads
It’s been a little while since I last stopped by Mobango. Last night at the MIR Mobile Mixer event in London, somebody mentioned them in conversation and I thought I should take a closer look. Mobango, in case you need a refresher, is all about mobile content. They’ve done a ton of work to make [...]
MIR Mobile Mixer: Ed Hodges of Touchnote on video
Here’s the first of the videos from last night’s MIR Mobile Mixer event in London. I grabbed a few minutes with Ed Hodges of mobile-picture-to-physical-postcard service, Touchnote, at today’s MIR Mixer event in London. They’ve got a really smart new service for application developers that allows integration of the Touchnote library with just a few [...]
MIR Mobile Mixer London: Brilliant, thanks for coming!
Thank you to everyone who came along to the rather funky Charlotte Street Blues bar in London’s NoHo (“North Soho”). It’s been a long time since we’ve done an event here at MIR for an array of reasons, principally because I’ve been in and out of the country like a yoyo, so I was really [...]
Whatleydude bungee jumps the Victoria Falls. With an N86 in his hand!
If you’d like to see what jumping out on a bungee rope over the Victoria Falls looks like, I’ve got some good news. James Whatley, on assignment for the Lucozade Energy Challenge, decided to document the entire process. It makes for compulsive viewing. Watch as he waits, nervously, contemplating the jump whilst the organisers check [...]
MIR Mobile Mixer London is tonight!
Right then! The MiFi wifi mobile hotspot unit is charged. CHECK! The Canon XH A1 video camera is charged and ready. CHECK! Blackberry/iPhone/G1 are charged and ready. CHECK! Tonight’s the night for the first ever MIR Mobile Mixer. It’s a far more relaxed version of the infamous Unlimited Drinks events of days gone by. There [...]
Smartphone downloads to reach 6,677,770,771.78 by 2014
Frost & Sullivan have released a report for anyone who wants a bit of collateral to support their ‘mobile applications will be big’ argument. Interestingly though, Frost’s exhaustive research indicate that downloads from all app stores will reach 6.67 billion in 2014. Not 7 billion. Not 6 billion. 6.67 billion precisely. If it was me [...]
Nimbuzz hits Android marketplace
Nimbuzz is a simply brilliant instant messaging service for multiple platforms — and it’s now available for the growing legions of Android users. Instant messaging is nicely integrated into the operating system with Google Talk — but, not everyone’s on that… indeed, if you’re anything like me you’ve got friends on each of the major [...]
Are you depreciating? You need NextWorth!
Can you hear that gentle whine in the background? That’s the sound of your mobile handset collection depreciating. NextWorth can help. They’ve launched a service for North America that will recycle your aging handsets and give you a wad of cash in return (in the form of Amazon vouchers – other leading retailers are supported). [...]
Here, take my MiFi!
I’ve just had a chap walk up to me in this pub and ask to have a look at the MiFi unit I’ve been playing with. (You can see the video overview here). He’s apparently ‘heard of it’ and was ‘wondering where he could get one.’ ’200 quid on Expansys,’ I told him. He nodded [...]
Working from the pub with the MiFi
I am sitting in the quintessential English pub in Angel. Believe it or not I’m tangling with a particularly annoying SQL query for WordPress on behalf of a client. And I’m doing so, using my MacBook Air and MiFi unit. You see the Air doesn’t have a built in sim card (like my tiny Dell) [...]
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