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Uplinq: The camera equipment has arrived

By Ewan on May 31, 2011 in Devices

The recent ‘behind the scenes‘ post was very well received so I will continue to do the odd post related to this. Speaking of which, you remember instead of dragging all my camera equipment across the Atlantic, I’ve been renting it and having it delivered instead? Here’s a wee video showing what that looks like. [...]

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Uplinq: About to head over to Qualcomm’s campus

By Ewan on May 31, 2011 in Opinion

Here’s a wee video I took discussing the day ahead — with some exclusive footage of the gathered media masses who have been invited out to San Diego for Qualcomm’s Uplinq event.

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First look at Orange’s Samsung Tocco Quick Tap

By Ewan on May 31, 2011 in Devices, Operators, Services

Thanks to Orange I managed to get hold of the all new Samsung Tocco handset with Quick Tap contactless payments support. I filmed a quick video overview with Socialcam to show you what it’s all about. I did a semi-unboxing (I’d already switched on the phone) and then I set about messing around with the [...]

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Arrived into San Diego for Qualcomm’s Uplinq event

By Ewan on May 31, 2011 in News

Here I am in San Diego for Qualcomm’s Uplinq 2011 conference taking place this week. It’s looking like it’ll be a rather interesting event — with some notable highlights (schedule here), including the participation of Nokia’s Stephen Elop, HTC’s Peter Chou and HP’s Jon Rubenstein. I’m looking forward to checking out: – Qualcomm Labs (to [...]

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Cédric Ponsot of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment runs a Multi-Platform Distribution Service

By Momchil on May 30, 2011 in Operators, Opinion, Services

Cédric Ponsot, CEO of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment talks at MIPTV on licensing and distribution of content. Vivendi handles mobile content and works with content owners and mobile operators on licensing, distributing and monetizing content. Here is the video:

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Yet another cryptic Vodafone text

By Ewan on May 30, 2011 in News

I’ve just landed in Los Angeles on the way to Qualcomm’s Uplinq 2011 event and got this text through from Vodafone. I don’t know who authors these things. I wonder if they are deliberately going out of their way to confuse me. Have a read of this: Welcome to The USA. Calls cost 135ppm to [...]

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Ofir Zemer of Pontis demonstrates Contextual Marketing at Amdocs InTouch

By Momchil on May 30, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

Here at Amdocs InTouch Ofir Zemer, VP Product at Pontis shows us how Contextual Marketing can do for Operators to help Customer Management. Contextual Marketing takes into account the “context” of the subscriber in Real Time. More from Ofir:

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Sylvain Audigier of TF1 discussing Connected TV at MIPTV

By Momchil on May 29, 2011 in Opinion

Sylvain Audigier – Broadcasting, Innovation and New Technology Director at TF1 talks to us at Connected Creativity. TF1 is a French Free-To-Air leader with 24% market share. Sylvain discusses the growth Connected TV in the next 3-5 years. More about the TV Experience from Sylvain:

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Yossi Zohar introduces Amdocs Retail Experience

By Momchil on May 29, 2011 in Opinion

In this video we interviewed Yossi Zohar, Marketing Director at Amdocs Customer Management Division. Amdocs is showcasing the Amdocs Retail Experience which provides an end to end solution for operators to improve customer experience at the store. Part of the solution is the Retail Interaction Manager, a product designed for tablet devices reducing training costs. [...]

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Enterprise WiFi Best Practice Series: Devin Akin of Aerohive

By Ewan on May 26, 2011 in Opinion, Services

I’m delighted to say that we’re now ready to kick-off with the first post of our all new content series focusing on best practice around internal enterprise WiFi. Over the past few months I’ve had quite a few email enquiries from readers wondering if I had any perspective on the issue of internal enterprise WiFi. [...]

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361 Degrees podcast – Episode 4: Getting in touch with NFC

By Ewan on May 26, 2011 in News, Opinion

Listen! In Episode 4 we recap MIR’s recent Unlimited Drinks event and then set about discussing the hot-topic of the moment… NFC (Near Field Communication). With help from special guest Raymond Lee an expert from Consult Hyperion we discuss: What is NFC? How and where could it be deployed? Who the key players are and some [...]

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Hello Vodafone, yes it’s me again

By Ewan on May 25, 2011 in News

Here I am again in Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Vodafone has updated it’s advertising as you can see. The current message is ridiculously misleading. Unless, perhaps, I didn’t get the memo. It’s certainly possible. The message Vodafone wants to get across? European roaming mobile internet can be included in your monthly price plan. That sounds pretty [...]

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