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Video: James Lamberti of mobile advertising giant, InMobi

By Ewan on March 1, 2010 in News

If you haven’t heard of InMobi yet, don’t worry. You will. They’re coming. Having already locked up the Far Eastern markets (8 billion mobile impressions a month, 150+ million user reach), InMobi is the biggest mobile marketing giant that you’ve never heard of. If you’re into mobile applications (or websites) in any way, you should [...]

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Video: Parts 2-4 of Ben from Chomp (including demo)

By Ewan on March 1, 2010 in Applications

Part 1 of Ben Keighran’s interview went down very well indeed. (Ben is the Co-Founder of app discovery behemoth, Chomp). I’ve had some super feedback from his first interview so I’m delighted to bring you the second, third and fourth versions — a chomptastic video extravaganza! In the second part of our interview with Ben [...]

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Video: Julien Fourgeaud on the Symbian’s future

By Ewan on March 1, 2010 in News

Just before Mobile World Congress, Rafe and I sat down with Julien Fourgeaud to talk about his involvement in the Symbian Foundation, the importance of explaining technology as a user experience, where the Foundation and platform might go (i.e. future vision) and the possibilities of using Symbian on other connected devices. Let’s see what’s on [...]

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Anyone for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express? It’s free!

By Ewan on March 1, 2010 in News

Just got this in from BlackBerry’s European PR: Research In Motion (RIM) has today launched BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express as a free download from www.blackberry.co.uk/serverexpress. BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express is free new server software that wirelessly and securely synchronizes BlackBerry® smartphones with Microsoft® Exchange or Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server. Learn more about BlackBerry Enterprise [...]

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The most pointless iPhone applications: Anti-theft apps

By Ewan on March 1, 2010 in Applications

I keep on getting press releases sent in from, I imagine, really nice, really earnest mobile developers who have decided to crack the nightmare that is having your iPhone stolen. Or any phone for that matter, but the iPhone, it’s in a class of it’s own. First of all, if you’re a Vodafone UK subscriber [...]

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Transformers Comic hits the iPhone App Store

By Ewan on March 1, 2010 in Applications

I caught this press release and thought of you, dear reader. Well, maybe not you… but there are, I guess, hundreds of Transformers fans reading Mobile Industry Review. I kid ye not. I think it’s a generational thing. I’ll give you an idea of just how fanatical some of you are about Transformers: About 2 [...]

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