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Mistake: I bought some dire £12 Vodafone headphones yesterday

By Ewan on March 15, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Yesterday morning as I was packing my bag for the weekly trip to Paris, I had a feeling I was forgetting something. I checked the passport, the power cables, the charging leads and so on. All was good. I left the house. It was only when I got on the tube toward the Eurostar terminal [...]

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Founder of Twitea.me, Arturo Garrido, discusses BlueVia

By Ewan on March 14, 2011 in Applications, Operators, Opinion

In the first of our BlueVia Introduction series (kindly supported by BlueVia), we meet Arturo Garrido, the founder of Twitea.me — a mobile developer who’s already heavily using BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme. Arturo’s service is a Twitter-by-SMS service for Mexico where there’s a high proliferation of feature phones — but also high demand for services [...]

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Video: My Abroadband SIM has arrived

By Ewan on March 12, 2011 in Operators, Services

My Abroadband SIM arrived yesterday — finally. DHL tried to deliver it just a few days after I placed the order but there was no one home hence the delay. I’m delighted to say that it’s everything I expected: Clear packaging, simple instructions, evidently the output of a team of smart people who’ve really thought [...]

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James Parton introduces BlueVia from Telefonica

By Ewan on March 12, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

In the first of our new video series, we meet James Parton, Head of Marketing for Telefonica’s developer programme, BlueVia. I asked James to introduce BlueVia to us and to highlight it’s key offerings for developers. If you are working in mobile development, you should be intimately aware of what you can do with BlueVia. The [...]

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Neeraj Roy, Managing Director and CEO, Hungama Mobile

By Krystal on March 11, 2011 in Opinion

At the MEF Connects @ MWC party in Barcelona, we caught up with Neeraj Roy, Managing Director and CEO of Hungama Mobile. He gives us a bit of background on Hungama Mobile, how he thinks the mobile industry has changed in the past 12 months and interesting trends that have emerged from this year’s MWC. All [...]

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Adrian Sarosi, EMEA Director of Sales of OpenMarket

By Krystal on March 11, 2011 in Opinion

We got a few minutes with Adrian Sarosi, EMEA Director of Sales for Openmarket at the recent MEF Connects @ MWC party in Barcelona. He gave us a bit of background on Openmarket and their European expansion plans, what he thinks has been the biggest change over the past 12 months in the industry, and [...]

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Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic

By Krystal on March 11, 2011 in Opinion

We recently caught up with Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic at MEF Connects @ MWC party in Barcelona. He told us what makes Flirtomatic different, how he is glad to now see consumers coming to MWC and a few exciting new things for Flirtomatic. Check out the video:

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More WiFi pain at the Eurostar Gare du Nord terminal

By Ewan on March 10, 2011 in Services

Here I am at the Eurostar terminal at Paris Gare du Nord. A guy just sat down opposite me and tried to connect to WiFi. He opened up his MacBook Pro (this is the business lounge, so, you know, MacBook Pro’s are ten-a-penny) and tried to find the WiFi. Like me, he cycled through the [...]

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This post brought to you via Vodafone data

By Ewan on March 10, 2011 in News

Thank you Vodafone. Thank you for the £2/day-for-25mb deal. It’s good enough to make posts like this possible. The photo I’ve attached here (snapped on-the-go from the taxi window) is 1.6mb. Sending this to the web would normally cost me £2-3 once you take into account the surrounding data overhead. Thanks to Vodafone’s opt-in European [...]

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Mugen Power!

By Ewan on March 10, 2011 in News

The team at Mugen Power Batteries are sending me an array of batteries for the iPhone 4 to test. My iPhone’s power is a chronic issue so anything that can help will, I suspect, be hugely valuable. The batteries should arrive in the next few days. I will let you know how I get on. [...]

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Coming soon: Mobile Developer Titans, supported by BlueVia

By Ewan on March 10, 2011 in News

We’ve got a new series coming here on Mobile Industry Review. It’s called Mobile Developer Titans. It’s supported by Telefonica’s developer programme, BlueVia (more about that below). I’m hunting for 10 mobile developers to profile here on the site. I’m not interested in featuring just any developer in the series, though. I’m looking for developers who’ve [...]

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BlueVia & BlackBerry team up for developer webinar

By Ewan on March 10, 2011 in Devices, News

A quick note in from the BlueVia and RIM team to tell us about their upcoming webinar. I’m going to try and make it along to this one. BlueVia and BlackBerry Developer Programme have teamed up again to bring to you another webinar, this time exploring the BlackBerry 6 features and the use of network [...]

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