Archive | November, 2010

It’s MEF Americas 2010 from Miami, let’s rock it!

The sun is shining brightly in Miami already and it’s just gone 7am. The temperature is set to hit 28 degrees and the venue, the city’s uber-funky Fontainbleu Hotel has got the aircon and the internet connectivity turned up to the max. And helpfully, especially given yesterday’s diatribe (and diatribe #2) against Vodafone, the entire [...]

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Vodafone: Stop with the data texts and fix the pricing!

Me again. Just a few hours ago I posted the text message that I got from Vodafone outlining their (stupendous) data costs. Well, everything is stupendous, not just the data costs. I just got a new message from the Vodafone server thus: From Vodafone: To let you know it’s nearly midnight in the UK. If [...]

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135p per minute? Thanks for nothing Vodafone (again)

I’m delighted that my BlackBerry was working when I switched it on as I arrived into Miami Airport, I really am. But I’m very much over the fact that 10 years ago, such superb mobile connectivity would have been nothing short of a miracle. I’m well over it. So much so that I actually winced [...]

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The HTC HD7 Windows Phone has just arrived

The HTC HD7 Windows Phone has just arrived

This just arrived in from the team at Windows Phone. I’m really looking forward to checking it out. If you have any questions, let me know! Posted via email from MIR Live

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RIM’s Alliance Partners: A Huge Asset

RIM’s Alliance Partners: A Huge Asset

I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to Berlin to check out RIM’s BlackBerry Alliance EMEA Summit. If you recall, I popped by for last year’s event for the whole three days in Rome and found a thriving community of passionate BlackBerry businesses, many of whom I managed to catch on camera (you can still [...]

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Perfect service with British Airways Mobile

Perfect service with British Airways Mobile

Flying to Berlin today was my first opportunity to try out the rather spiffy British Airways mobile boarding pass system. And goodness me it was absolutely fantastic. Two clicks on my BlackBerry when I entered the terminal and I was done. I just handed the phone to the lady who checked in my bag. She [...]

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Samsung to sell a million Tabs by Christmas

Engadget reports that Samsung are on target to ship a million 7″ Galaxy Tab units by the end of this year. The company has already knocked back 600,000 so far — which is rather impressive. I was hoping for a more aggressive pricing strategy, but I’m still pleased to have seen a decent tablet entrant [...]

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The Beatles arrive on iTunes and nobody gives a toss

There was no small amount of excitement around the marketplace this week in anticipation of the ‘iTunes Announcement’. Many I spoke to were hoping to hear about the much fabled iTunes-in-the-cloud service. Me too. I’ve had enough dicking about with my own media files. I have multiple machines, multiple devices and I am aghast that [...]

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Prince William & Kate Middleton: A Royal wedding for the mobile age

Finally, mainstream media has got the story it’s been waiting for so long. News that Prince William and Kate Middleton are — shock — engaged and that there will be a Royal wedding in Spring/Summer next year — has been spreading like wildfire across social media sites. The news channels are going absolutely nuts. Tomorrow [...]

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Three’s Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone Rocks

Three’s Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone Rocks

Well then I’ve now had the Samsung Omnia 7 from Three for just under a fortnight and I’m very much enjoying the Windows Phone experience. This has been aided in no small part by the riotous Three data network upon which the Omnia has been screaming with joy. Seeing the 3G+ icon and watching the [...]

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HP’s Slate 500 looks an absolute nightmare

Have you checked out HP’s all new Slate tablet device? The videos hit the web recently and I made a note to sit down and document my utter dismay. The ‘Slate 500′ is 8.9″ and it runs Windows 7. Let me just stop there. Oh dear. Dear me, dear me. That automatically means it will [...]

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A sub-£300 BlackBerry PlayBook? Yes please!

I had to smile at reports of a sub $500 BlackBerry PlayBook from RIM. Right now, the exchange rate on that equates to £309 pounds — so if you assume the price is set to be around or just below that mark, RIM could possibly blow the tablet market wide open. I would imagine that [...]

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