Archive | March, 2010

Webinar worth your attention: BBC, mBlox, MX Telecom, Telefonica, Voda, Accenture

The Mobile Entertainment Forum has been delivering a series of illuminating webinars based around the ‘enablement’ of services. The third webinar is today and I strongly recommend participating if you’re into service enablement (e.g. sender pays, credit management and similar). Here’s the agenda: Agenda Following on from our two successful MEF Enablers webinars, our speakers [...]

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ipadio: Panzer Panic is My App of The Week

Posted via email from MIR Live

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Guy controls real helicopter with N900′s accelerometer

Is this the ‘most powerful & freaking crazy app ever’? Posted by the chaps at free mobile internet settings service, Tweakker. Heh…

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The Application Review newsletter goes out today

Are you on The Application Review subscription list? Each week I profile a few mobile applications that I think you should be aware of. Get’em by email every Wednesday. Free, baby. Free. You can sign-up here: http://www.theapplicationreview.com/get-the-newsletter/ And if you’ve got any suggestions (on any platform), tell me about them.

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Nokia, want to evolve Ovi Maps faster? The whole Garmin Connect team are for hire

Nokia, want to evolve Ovi Maps faster? The whole Garmin Connect team are for hire

If you’d like to hire the team that built and created Garmin Connect, the world’s largest repository of recorded GPS activities, then today is your lucky day. Garmin decided to shut down operations at its San Francisco office just over a month ago — and thus move all Garmin Connect management and development back to [...]

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Fear the Googlepipe

Fear the Googlepipe

The nice chaps at Mobile Entertainment magazine ran my ‘Fear The Googlepipe‘ opinion-piece yesterday morning. Did you catch it? It’s based on a post I did a little while ago about the launch of the arrival of the Nexus One and what that could mean for your common-or-garden mobile operator. I say ‘based’, but the [...]

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myFairPartner’s completely online employment service (connected by text message)

myFairPartner’s completely online employment service (connected by text message)

I caught some news today about myFairPartner, a new online temporary employment service. They’ve integrated absolutely everything into one online portal which, if you’re a temporary worker (or, you hire a lot of them), will be an absolute dream come true. It’s typically an absolute arse, hiring temporary workers. I’m sure many readers have, at [...]

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Make something like this Nokia, and the game is afoot!

Make something like this Nokia, and the game is afoot!

That there is the next Nokia handset — the X9 — supporting 720p quad LED, microSD, HDMI, dual mini USB, AMOLED screen… No wait… Alas, it’s just a concept. Yup, it’s made-up — but it’s a really-good made-up set of images. It’s been published by the chaps over at Greek technology site, Pestaola and I [...]

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Video: Scott Weiss, Symbian’s User Interface Manager

Video: Scott Weiss, Symbian’s User Interface Manager

A few weeks ago, Rafe and I popped into the Symbian London HQ to talk with Scott Weiss, the Foundation’s User Interface & Technology manager. The aim? Find out more about what they’ve got planned with upcoming versions of the operating system. Have a watch! Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video

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Good news for INQ as Aircel India takes the INQ Chat & Mini

Good news for INQ as Aircel India takes the INQ Chat & Mini

INQ, the handset manufacturer owned by parent company Hutchison Whampoa was always going to have an easy time of it with the 3 group of companies. A couple of phone calls from the big man and woosh, INQ had clients coming out of its ears. And their handsets, targeted at the mass market, have been [...]

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LoKast: Share your media with anyone quickly & simply

LoKast: Share your media with anyone quickly & simply

I’ve been playing with LoKast for a few days and it’s raised some rather exciting possibilities. The application turns your iPhone into a two-way media server, enabling you to rapidly share any of your media (photos, video, contacts, music) to anyone else using the app on the same WiFi or Bluetooth connection. My first reaction [...]

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QuickOffice on 100m+ phones: “That’s what you call reach, Mr iPhone Developer”

There’s quite a lot of discussion going on at the newsletter post I published today. It always gets exciting when The Blandford gets involved (that is, Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian). Responding to a query about successful Symbian downloads, Rafe pointed out that Quickoffice is on over 100 million Symbian phones. Including the 3 [...]

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