Do you remember Lonely Planet‘s genius idea that made most of their £9 European city guide iPhone applications free until today? Has it paid off? Yes. The city guides for the following cities have been flying off the virtual shelves: – Amsterdam – Barcelona – Berlin – Budapest – Copenhagen – Istanbul – London – [...]
Archive | April, 2010
LadyGeek’s The Female App Economy Report – ‘unboxed’
“I’ll do an unboxing!” I said to Belinda, one of the founders of LadyGeek. Belinda had just handed me a copy of their first mobile applications report, titled The Female App Economy. It’s been produced in combination with YouGov’s SixthSense team and it makes very, very interesting reading. LadyGeek’s mission is to help technology companies [...]
I’m off to see the Ambassador
I’m off to the Finnish Embassy this afternoon with — I believe — a few other folk from the mobile and telecoms industries. The Embassy is putting on a seminar on the innovations in Telecommunications and Media. I said I’d be delighted to go along. It should no doubt be an interesting experience. I suspect [...]
Developer Offscreen knocks back 25 million downloads from Nokia’s Ovi Store
The chances are that you haven’t come across Offscreen Technologies, especially if — like most of the marketplace — you are naturally focused on the iPhone and Android platforms. Offscreen are similar to many popular mobile developers you might care to mention. They create games, productivity apps and general entertainment/fun apps. The only difference is [...]
My TechCrunch GeeknRolla presentation from yesterday: Beyond the iPhone
To everyone I met at yesterday’s TechCrunch GeeknRolla event, hello! And thank you everyone for taking the time to listen to my presentation. Here is the Slideshare: Ewan's Presentation for TechCrunch's GeeknRolla View more presentations from Mobile Industry Review. I’ll aim to write-up my experience shortly. (In summary: Fantastic). Thank you Patrick Smith of TechCrunch [...]
Escaping from mainland Europe with just an iPhone and a credit card
Jonathan MacDonald, friend of the site and all round mobile marketing genius, found himself trapped in Europe a few days ago — on account of the rather surprising Ash Cloud. I and the rest of Jonathan’s followers (all 1,561 of them) watched as he and some colleagues arrived at Dusseldorf airport to find out that, [...]
Apple’s Big Surprise: iPhone 4G Revealed 60 days ahead of schedule ‘by mistake’ (Update: Or was it stolen?)
Stop the clocks! It’s time to find out almost everything about the all new iPhone due to be announced in mid-June. At least, it certainly looks that way. For Gizmodo, you see, has what amounts to as Stefan from IntoMobile describes it — the mobile industry scoop of the year: A pre-production next generation iPhone [...]
Numo’s SMS Preview hits 1 million Ovi Store downloads
Tomorrow I’m giving a talk at TechCrunch Europe’s GeeknRolla event on the subject of getting big fast in mobile. One of the companies I’ll be looking at is Nokia. I most definitely understand and empathise with the pained expressions I witness whenever I mention the company to mobile developers, however the company’s size and handset [...]
CounterPath launches NomadicPBX to deliver end-to-end FMC (“Fixed Mobile Convergence”)
This one caught my attention this morning. CounterPath are launching their NomadicPBX system today at the Emerging Communications Conference. I’ve been reading all about the next frontier in telephony — namely the ageing PBX systems in use by millions of companies around the planet. Most of the PBXs are simply useless beyond allowing folk to [...]
ImpulsePay mobile payments now available for 18+ verified UK consumers
Attention all adult, games, betting and music content providers: ImpulsePay has gone live with an 18+ service that uses the mobile operator age verification facilities to deliver proof of age prior to allowing consumers to purchase content. Nifty. Here’s how it works: – The content owner inserts an ImpulsePay ‘Buy Now’ – After clicking on [...]
Stranded by the Ash? Get a free Lonely Planet Guide!
Whatever your view of the almost invisible (and apparently harmless?) Ash cloud currently grounding most of Europe’s air network, I thought I’d drop a little bit of good news. If you’re stuck in one of the affected European cities covered by Lonely Planet, I strongly suggest you grab your iPhone and download a copy of [...]
Will wonders never cease? Iggy the cat uses an iPad!
I’ve been hearing about this for what seems like days now and I thought it was worth documenting here on the site. Youtube is filling up with videos of cats getting stuck into the iPad. I kid ye not. What’s even more incredulous is that even they too are immediately understanding how the user interface [...]
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