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Archive | August, 2010

I have ONE pod to give away at Appnation: Here’s how to win!

By Ewan on August 31, 2010 in News

Calling all mobile applications developers! I’ve just been speaking to the chaps at Appnation, the premier applications conference happening in San Francisco in two weeks. I’ve managed to secure ONE booth to give away for a lucky mobile developer or a mobile startup closely related to app development. These stands are called ‘pods’ and they [...]

TV’s New Rule: Celebrities Only Use iPhones (and iPads)

By Ewan on August 31, 2010 in Devices, Opinion

Must Be The Music is the new music talent show airing on BSkyB’s Sky One channel in the United Kingdom. It’s quite different from X-Factor or American Idol, principally because it appears to feature people and groups with talent, rather than a parade of idiot wannabes. Now that BBC’s Sherlock has finished, it’s one of [...]

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I’m on Channel4 News this evening talking iPhone Jailbreaking

By Ewan on August 30, 2010 in Applications, News

I popped into Channel4′s studio on Friday evening to meet with Benjamin Cohen, their technology guru. Benjamin called during the week to ask my perspective on iPhone Jailbreaking and whether it was causing serious issues for developers. If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone you can — amongst other things — get premium applications on your phone [...]

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Flirtomatic is #1 US mobile dating site

By Ewan on August 25, 2010 in News

Flirtomatic, the uber-brilliant mobile dating success story has cracked America. So reports mobile measurement firm, GroundTruth. Here’s what they had to say: Flirtomatic, a mobile-optimized dating site, is the category leader, accounting for 65 percent of the audience for mobile dating for the week ending August 8. Popular online sites, such as match.com and eHarmony [...]

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Flirtomatic is hiring

By Ewan on August 25, 2010 in News

I had a note in from Mark Curtis, top man at leading mobile dating site, Flirtomatic. Here it is: – – – – – We’re hiring at Flirtomatic and thought that you might well know someone who could be interested in this job and 9 other jobs!!. Feel free to forward it on to others. [...]

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The iPhone user fallacy: Not everyone’s a super-user

By Ewan on August 25, 2010 in Devices, Opinion

A friend of my wife’s was due to visit a few weeks ago. The day before, the friend sent a text messaging asking my wife for directions to our house. “The postcode will do it,” I said to my wife, “Or she could lookup the road and number.” I mentally checked out of the conversation [...]

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157 App Stats You Should Know About

By Ewan on August 19, 2010 in Applications

Some fascinating insight into the mobile applications marketplace, courtesy of the uber-productive Stuart Dredge of Mobile Entertainment. This is one of those slide decks you’ll probably want to favourite and send around the office. Excellent work Stuart! 157 Mobile App Stats You Should Know About View more presentations from stuartdredge.

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How Projects Really Work

By Ewan on August 19, 2010 in News

There’s a print out of this graphic in one of the offices I’m working at — it makes me chuckle every time I glance up at it. I did a search and found out that you can make your own and even buy prints of it over at www.projectcartoon.com. A super idea. I’m pretty sure [...]

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Presselite’s iTunes dirty tricks campaign targets Malcolm Barclay

By Ewan on August 17, 2010 in Applications

Malcolm Barclay is a well known and respected developer of such brilliant applications as Tube Status, NextBuses, Tube Deluxe and London Bus. Chances are if you live in the UK, you either have one of his applications or you’re standing next to someone who does. Recently, Malcolm was a little shocked to find that a [...]

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iPhone 4 is now free on Orange UK £50/month

By Ewan on August 17, 2010 in Devices, Operators

Orange have re-jigged their iPhone pricing strategy making the device range much more accessible. Most members of the UK public come out in spots when they’re told they have to pay for a phone. It’s because we’ve had a decade or so of free goodies from the mobile operators in return for long term contract [...]

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Motorola Flipout: You’ll love it, or…

By Ewan on August 17, 2010 in Devices

… or you won’t. It’s what’s known in the industry as pure Marmite. Either you’ll take to it or you’ll be up to the wee small hours screaming about handset design standards. Have you come across the Motorola Flipout before? I found it lurking in the Expansys.com ‘coming soon’ section and was minded to take [...]

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Just arrived: The Samsung Galaxy S

By Ewan on August 17, 2010 in Devices, News

The rather swanky Samsung Galaxy S device has just arrived. Ben Smith over at The Really Mobile Project is loving his, commenting last night that, “It’s ridiculously fast!” So fast, that Ben has started reaching for his Galaxy first, before his BlackBerry, to check email and so on. Interesting! I’m going to check it out [...]

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