2011 March | Mobile Industry Review

Archive | March, 2011

Lo and behold: Eurostar survey

By Ewan on March 9, 2011 in News

On the very same evening I was moved to write about the rubbish Eurostar WiFi in London St. Pancras, I was approached on board by a researcher working on behalf of the company. She asked if I would like to give some feedback. I was only too happy to do so. Interestingly she then handed [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Here’s what I think of Eurostar’s non-existent on-board WiFi

By Ewan on March 8, 2011 in Opinion, Services

Feel the frustration. Utterly, utterly annoying. 2011 and no on-board WiFi yet.

Read full story • Comments { 3 }

Another day, another bollocks Eurostar experience

By Ewan on March 8, 2011 in Opinion

When will companies get that ‘internet’ is not just another nice-to-have? It’s not just an also-ran for a whole array of business executives, it’s actually important. I’m sitting in the Eurostar terminal’s business class lounge right now at Kings Cross St Pancras. I’ve paid £450 for the return ticket. I paid the money partly because [...]

Read full story • Comments { 10 }

Andrew Dark, CEO of mBlox

By Ewan on March 8, 2011 in Opinion

At the MEF Connects @ MWC party in Barcelona, we managed to get some time with Andrew Dark, CEO of mobile transaction network, mBlox. We asked Andrew to discuss the trends he’s seen in the mobile industry over the last year and speculate on what he thinks we’ll be seeing across the next few years. [...]

Read full story • Comments { 4 }

Does that million quid house have fast internet?

By Ewan on March 7, 2011 in Services

I was delighted to read this article in today’s Telegraph: Rightmove is teaming up with BT, the UKs biggest internet provider, to list the internet speeds of the 1m homes listed on its website, The Telegraph has learnt.It is understood that Rightmove is planning to list broadband speed alongside standard information, such as the number [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Apple’s ‘Strategy Tax’: Is it becoming a problem yet?

By Ewan on March 6, 2011 in Opinion

An interesting discussion by John Siracusa over at Ars Technica. He reflects on Microsoft’s experience of a ‘strategy tax’ which prevented them from innovating or changing effectively whilst they were dominating the planet during the 1990s and early 2000s. I’ve been thinking about the concept of a “strategy tax” while watching Apple’s latest round of [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Lee Epting, Vodafone Group Content Services Director

By Ewan on March 6, 2011 in Opinion

It was a big evening for Vodafone’s Lee Epting at MEF Connects at MWC party in Barcelona recently: She was voted on to the foundation’s European board and then appointed as Chair! Congratulations Lee. So obviously, I had to ask Lee about that honour — plus I took the opportunity to ask her to outline [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Kai Markus of Net Mobile

By Ewan on March 6, 2011 in Opinion

We caught up with Kai Markus of mobile aggregator and service provider, Net Mobile (and sponsors of this video series!) Kai is one of the top people at the company and is quite possibly the only person I’ve met with the job title of ‘CPO’ — Chief Product Officer. We asked Kai to give us a [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Andrew Bud on the growth of MEF and the future of mobile

By Ewan on March 6, 2011 in Opinion

We caught up with Andrew Bud in Barcelona at the MEF Connects @ MWC party. Andrew is the Global Chair of MEF. We asked his perspective on an array of subjects from the changes he’s witnessed sweeping the mobile industry across the last 10 years, to the latest trends coming next year.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Event next week: Mobile for the Cultural Sector

By Ewan on March 5, 2011 in News

I’m participating in a roundtable at the upcoming Mobile for the Cultural Sector next week. It’s one of the always-good Camerjam events and it takes place on the 8-9th of March at Ravensbourne, London. There are quite a few luminary folk speaking: Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Communications, Culture and Creative Industries Sarah Evans, Head of [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Please recommend a decent USB-headset to replace this rubbish one!

By Ewan on March 5, 2011 in Devices

Help me, help me. My USB headset is rubbish. Absolutely dire. It’s made by Gigaware and, if memory serves, I bought it for an outrageous price from one of those airport shops when I was on my way to America. You know when you pay something like £50 for bits of plastic that you know [...]

Read full story • Comments { 31 }

iPad 2 Reactions: What does Dan Greenall of 20:20 Mobile think?

By Krystal on March 4, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

Here’s some input from Dan Greenall Product Marketing Manager of 20:20 Mobile. They are a leading distributor of mobile phone products and provider of business process outsourcing services to the telecoms industry and an authorised distributor for most leading mobile phone manufacturers and is one of the world’s largest distributors of mobile phone accessories, handling [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }