It’s getting a little bit silly now, dear reader. Ridiculously silly. We’ve had a good year now of mobile applications taking off, going ballistic. Now, though, it’s time for the industry to get real about the iPhone: It isn’t the only handset on the marketplace. The World Is Not Flat I understand that the iPhone [...]
Archive | March, 2010
Vodafone kills Wayfinder citing “competitive pressures from Nokia and Google”
I was forwarded this internal email from Vodafone announcing the closure of their Wayfinder services. I’ve got rid of the top and bottom of the email to just focus on the guts. It makes fascinating reading for anyone looking for insight into how an operator reacts to external market pressures: Due to the huge competitive [...]
Video: Lee Williams Mobile World Congress Walkabout
Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian takes a walkabout Mobile World Congress with Symbian‘s Executive Director, Lee Williams. Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
Video: Nokia’s Tero Ojanpera on Symbian, Ovi and beyond
At Mobile World Congress, we sat down with Nokia’s Dr Tero Ojanpera, EVP of Services for Nokia, to talk about the company’s strategy with Symbian, Ovi, Maemo/MeeGo and the way ahead. Here’s the video… Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
A quick overview of Devnest #7 last night
Last night I headed over to the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre on King William Street, just down the road from the Bank of England, to the Twitter Developer event, Devnest. This was the 7th incarnation. As I walked along King William Street I looked in the window and by chance saw a rather vacant [...]
I’m speaking at Devnest #7 this evening in London – come along
I was invited to speak at the Twitter Developer Nest event tonight by Angus Fox, one of the organisers. He asked if I’d be willing to do a ‘state of the nation’ mobile applications presentation, but customise it to the audience of (desktopish) developers potentially interested in going mobile. “Bring it on!” I said. So [...]
Mobile apps and open government data: Developers sought as speakers
Jeff Peel posted this on MoMoLondon earlier today — I hope it might be relevant for any mobile developers focusing on government data: My company runs the Government 2010 series of web broadcast events and on April 22nd we have an event focused on Open Data. If any MoMo members are building or have built [...]
Video: Sony Ericsson’s X10 Mini super-small Android device
Would you like to see me raving about the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Android device? Well, here I am… Rafe filmed me doing an intro to the device here: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video And for anyone who’s interested in the phone, we also got the Sony Ericsson chaps to [...]
SonicMule and every other developer should watch Nokia carefully
A tweet from Lee Williams, top man at the Symbian Foundation, pointed me to this blog post at the Wall Street Journal Online. Ty McMahan of the WSJ quotes Jeff Smith, CEO of SonicMule (the people who make the phenomenal music app, Smule) thus: “Nokia isn’t on the shortlist of anything we do at Smule [...]
Is Apple about to bake advertising into the iPhone SDK?
o2′s James Parton picked up this Mobile Entertainment story, Apple to integrate advertising into iPhone SDK. Mobile Entertainment’s Stuart Dredge noticed this job posting that gives a hint that Apple may well integrate advertising into the iPhone SDK. That has quite a few implications for the mobile marketing industry — much of it (rightly or [...]
International calling for… FooCall
FooCall. Say it slowly, in two parts… Fook. All. Now say that together? Fook All. FooCall. That’s right! International calling for next to nothing. I’ve used a lot of international calling services, particularly from my mobile phone. For a long time I made use of an array of services that enabled me to call locally [...]
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‘Spot The Dog’ shows iPads are going to sell in their millions
I was having a read of this PR Week story and thought I’d check out the video they included relating to books and magazines on the iPad. The video is actually from PaidContent’s story about how Penguin is going to “Reinvent Books With iPad” In the video, Penguin Books’ CEO, John Makinson, showed off just [...]