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APPNATION roars into view — make sure you’re there!

By Ewan on April 12, 2011 in News

One of the best conferences in mobile applications is taking place toward the end of this month. I’m pretty disappointed to not be able to make it. It’s obviously taking place in San Francisco — where else, but the centre of the mobile applications world? Last year, the inaugural APPNATION was thoroughly well received and [...]

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Nokia’s Ovi Store: Put that in your pipe and smoke it, doubters!

By Ewan on April 12, 2011 in Applications, Devices

So I’ve been pretty vocal about Nokia’s Ovi Store. I was vocal (positively) when it launched. I was vocal (negatively) when it really began to frustrate me (silly little bugs that we letting it down) and I’ve been rather delighted at the company’s continued success with the platform ever since. I’ve been banging the drum [...]

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Nokia’s new E6 and X7 keep the Symbian excitement alive

By Ewan on April 12, 2011 in Devices

Now then, I used the word ‘excitement‘ in the title with a straight face. I don’t think it’s blow-the-doors-off excitement per se — but there’s definitely genuine interest out there in the marketplace to see what’s new from Nokia. These two devices look pretty hot. I mean that in a genuine manner. I do like [...]

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Teen murdered protecting brother’s BlackBerry

By Ewan on April 11, 2011 in Devices

Ah dear. Operating in our mobile industry bubble, it’s so easy to forget just how valuable a handset can be perceived on the street. Last month, I wrote about a chap being mugged (and subsequently murdered) for his iPhone. At that point I wrote no handset is worth dying for. I recognise, though, that it’s [...]

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Tomi Ahonen interviewed at Connected Creativity

By Ewan on April 11, 2011 in News

Tomi Ahonen gave one of the morning’s prominent keynotes at MIPTV’s Connected Creativity conference in Cannes last week. Described on Twitter recently as the High Priest of SMS, Tomi Ahonen is an author, consultant and expert presenter. He jumped on stage and began electrifying the audience of television, movie and content executives with his pronouncements [...]

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Photos from Connected Creativity at MIPTV featuring Rafe Blandford and Ben Smith

By Ewan on April 10, 2011 in News

Last week was all about Connected Creativity — the mobile/digital event happening alongside MIPTV, the world’s largest entertainment industry event. I went down there with Rafe Blandford from the All About media group (most readers will know him via his publication: All About Symbian) and Ben Smith from The Really Mobile Project/WirelessWorker.net. I was slated to [...]

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The £100m Harry Potter Ebook rights and the forthcoming Kindle/iPad ‘revolution’

By Ewan on April 10, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

I’m off to the London Book Fair tomorrow. Ebooks is big business nowadays, especially with the 800lb Amazon Gorilla stomping about the mobile industry. Indeed, the emerging idea of Amazon competing heavily or directly with iTunes has been getting quite a lot of people excited over the past few months. As I was browsing the [...]

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Unlimited Drinks: Quick update – way, way over-subscribed!

By Ewan on April 10, 2011 in News

After last week’s newsletter, I wanted to give everyone an ultra quick update on Unlimited Drinks. The venue has space for an absolute maximum of 80 people and right now just over 180 people have asked for a place. I’ve already committed to the venue so I can’t easily change that. I think we clearly [...]

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10% of British teenagers think it’s ok to text whilst having sex #mipcc

By Ewan on April 8, 2011 in Applications, Devices, Operators, Opinion

At Connected Creativity this week, one of the presentations I was really looking forward to seeing was the one from industry commentator, author and consultant, Tomi Ahonen. His task was to discuss the growth of mobility around the globe in the context of the media and entertainment industry audience at the event. I think he [...]

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The Connected Creativity Pub Quiz

By Ewan on April 7, 2011 in News

At the end of the first day at Connected Creativity, I hosted the Pub Quiz in the Experience Hub tent by the beach in Cannes. We got a little write-up in the MIPTV Show Daily News. I think we had about 15 different teams show up for a few drinks and to demonstrate their googling [...]

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Lady Geek TV: Series 3: Episode 6

By Krystal on April 7, 2011 in Applications

We are proud to bring you the final episode of this Series of Lady Geek TV. Here’s what’s happening in this episode. “Feeling stressed over not having the time to be a domestic Goddess? In this week’s episode, which is the final of the series (sniff sniff) our Lady Geeks have discovered apps that will [...]

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Unlimited Drinks London = Wow!

By Krystal on April 6, 2011 in News

Hello! Thank you so much for the amazing response we have had to the Unlimited Drinks event on April 18th, 2011 @ Dishoom The emails have been coming in so fast and furious we’ve been desperately trying to keep up with them. Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about you, you will get a response email [...]

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