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Nokia’s Top Man: “The Fightback Starts Now”

By Ewan on July 7, 2010 in Devices, Opinion

The fightback starts now. That’s the headline of the letter published by Nokia’s Head of Mobile Solutions, Anssi Vanjoki. I’ve interviewed the guy a few times and I really do rate him. I was flying back from Qualcomm’s Uplinq event last week when the letter was posted to Nokia’s blog (“Conversations“). Since Friday, it’s received [...]

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How the new iPhone 5 fixes antenna problem (Photo)

By Ewan on July 7, 2010 in Devices, News

Fast becoming one of Apple’s most derided launches of recent years, the iPhone 4′s ‘just hold it another way‘ problem has been a boon to competitors looking for a chink in the armour as I recorded last week in San Diego. So here’s a photo (above) of what the iPhone 5 might look like. Click [...]

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My business critical Bold 9700 isn’t: JVM Error 545

By Ewan on July 6, 2010 in Devices

This evening at about 430pm my business critical top of the range BlackBerry Bold 9700 went blank except for an annoying small and inexplicable, unhelpful message: JVM Error 545. Joy. It’s rendered the device absolutely useless. I saw it and took out the battery immediately smiling with an embarrassed look in case anyone in Starbucks [...]

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Part 3, Shawn Barber of Acision

By Ewan on July 5, 2010 in News

The Future of Voicemail I’m delighted to bring you the third part of the Future of Voicemail video series featuring Shawn Barber, Director of Product for Voice Messaging at global messaging provider, Acision. To say Shawn is ‘Mr Voicemail’ is to put it mildly. He lives and breathes the medium, although he was clear to [...]

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Video: Andrew Gilbert, Qualcomm’s top man in Europe

By Ewan on July 5, 2010 in News, Services

On Thursday afternoon last week I got 20 minutes with Andrew Gilbert, Qualcomm‘s top man in Europe. He agreed to go on camera to give us an overview of the company and talk about opportunities with the company’s Brew MP platform. If you think you know Qualcomm, do think again. Did you, for instance, know [...]

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I’m speaking at tomorrow’s Senior Market Mobile 2010 event

By Ewan on July 5, 2010 in News

I’m off to the Senior Market Mobile 2010 conference in London tomorrow and I’m very much looking forward to it. After lunch I’m speaking on the topic of Zero Friction (“Ewan MacLeod on designing a service to connect grandparents to media from their family.”) It’s only 15 minutes so I’m working hard to keep the [...]

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Meffys 2010 Awards: Layar, Novatel, Shazam, Flirtomatic

By Ewan on July 3, 2010 in News

It’s time for another round of videos from last week’s Meffys 2010 Awards. The Best Mobile Connected Device award went to Novatel‘s MiFi Intelligent Hotspot: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video The Best Music Service award went to Shazam: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video The Best [...]

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Another influential Nokia blogger quits: “Symbian-Guru is Over”

By Ewan on July 2, 2010 in News

Exactly a month ago I wrote that WorldofNokia, one of the influential British Nokia fan sites had closed down, citing nothing to write about. In that post I pointed out that the dwindling Nokia fan publications was becoming a serious, serious problem for the company. How bad does it have to get, I asked, before [...]

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