I got a bit of news in from the SMS industry this morning. Silverstreet, the mobile messaging firm, has just announced they’ve terminated (or ‘delivered’) a whopping 400 million SMS messages in the month of December 2010 alone. This sounds like good news to me. The chaps over at Silverstreet are understandably delighted and dropped [...]
Archive | December, 2010
MWC is fast approaching, would you like to sponsor us?
Have you got your MWC strategy finalised yet? If you work in marketing in the mobile industry, chances are you had a vague note in your diary to think about MWC in November, postponed it ’til December and… well, you’ve got New Year’s Eve to get out the way first and then… February will [...]
LogMeIn Ignition is £11.99 ’til 4th Jan!
I’m a huge, huge fan of LogMeIn Ignition, the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad application that lets you control your PC/Mac remotely. Almost every computer I own is hooked up to LogMeIn so I can access it wherever I am. When I was in Hong Kong and Miami recently, I used the facility daily. Yes I’ve got DropBox [...]
Did Apple’s ‘early mistakes’ screw up the iPhone potential? Nonsense.
Thanks to reader Jeffrey who emailed me this piece from MacNN published earlier this month. Jeffrey’s writing a paper for his board and wanted to know what I thought of the issue. I knocked off some thoughts to him and then asked if he wouldn’t mind if I published a summary here. The post reckons [...]
Nokia’s Marco Argenti on the growth of Ovi
MEF Americas 2010 Content & Commerce At the MEF Americas 2010 Content & Commerce event in Miami recently I sat down with Nokia’s top Ovi man, Marco Argenti, to ask him about how things were going with the platform. In a measure of how quickly things are progressing, the stat he gave in this video [...]
Sponsored post: How much is your old iPhone worth?
Note: This is my second ever sponsored post here on Mobile Industry Review. I had some good feedback after the last one a few months ago so here we go. This one is on behalf of the team at the Mobile Phone Recycling Comparison site. (It does what it says on the tin). I’ve been [...]
Debenhams mobile strategy: We’re only interested in iPhone users
Terence Eden recently highlighted a fascinating real life example of a consumer brand that’s only got eyes for iPhone. Debenhams is a chain of 153 department stores in the UK. They’re hugely popular and serve a wide variety of demographics. They’re for everyone from your grandmother to your 14 year old niece, right? Which is [...]
Help: How would you put a webcam on a truck and stream it’s output to the web?
A good friend of mine is intro trucks. Big, big, big into trucks. So much so that he runs the highly popular Truckblog.co.uk site. Ben’s got a question for you all. Any suggestions? Have a read: Ar Mr MacLeod, I have some thing for you and your technical wizard friends to think about. Is it [...]
Facebook blackhole could suck up mobile operators
I was in Miami when the last Women in Mobile Data (“WiMD”) events of the year was taking place, earlier this month. I’d received an invitation to pop along to the WiMD Christmas lunch and was highly disappointed not to have made it. However I’m absolutely delighted that Clare Grant, WiMD committee member (and [...]
MIR favourite ZumoDrive about to be snapped up by Moto?
I read with no small amount of excitement on TechCrunch earlier today that Motorola is reportedly close to acquiring Zecter, the company behind the awesome ZumoDrive. I first wrote about them back in January 2009 — almost two years ago (“ZumoDrive is going to change everything“) and since then I’ve been a paying customer. I [...]
James Parton introduces Telefonica’s all new developer platform, BlueVia
There’s been a lot of positive chatter in recent days about Telefonica’s BlueVia service for developers. So I asked James Parton, Telefonica’s Head of Developer Marketing, to give us a quick overview. Telefonica is well known for being serious about working with developers — and I’m pleased to see continual innovations and iterations in their [...]
Nokia’s Marco Argenti: “250k users joining Ovi every day”
I sat down with Nokia’s Mr Ovi Marco Argenti at the MEF Americas Content & Commerce event in Miami recently. I’ve got a few video episodes of the exchange coming shortly but I also asked Marco if he’d be up for a quick Q&A ahead of that. I’m delighted that he said yes so here [...]
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