Archive | May, 2011

Want to go to the Champions League final? Talk to Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson is the official mobile handset manufacturer of the UEFA Champions League — and they’ve just kicked off a search for some special mobile galacticos that would like to go to the Wembley final on May 28th. In case the Champions League has already passed you by, the key information you need to know [...]

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Good Morning from the Amdocs InTouch Miami conference

Hello and good morning from the Amdocs InTouch 2011 conference in Miami. I’m here to find out more about the company and to learn what they’re planning for the next year. I’m particularly interested to see what issues they think are going to become key. I’m also looking forward to meeting some of the company’s [...]

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Jaguar’s all new BlackBerry-enabled driving console

Jaguar’s all new BlackBerry-enabled driving console

The BlackBerry World Showcase area was heaving every day of the event — and one of the segments getting a lot of attention was the Jaguar area. You could hardly miss the huge good-looking Jaguar sitting proudly in the corner of the exhibition. It was there to demonstrate the all new BlackBerry-enabled driving console/computer that [...]

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Brian Reed of BoxTone talks at BlackBerry World

Brian Reed of BoxTone talks at BlackBerry World

This is Momchil here with a video of Brian Reed of BoxTone. Brian Reed, leader of the Product Team at BoxTone talks about the fast-growing market of Mobility Management. BoxTone offers full Mobile life cycle management, from secure device management to support management, operations management and pro-active monitoring. Over to Brian:

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361 Degrees podcast – Episode 3: The Great App Store Debate

Hot on the heels of episode 2, it’s time for the third episode of the 361 Degrees podcast. This, if you recall, is the podcast series I’m participating in with both Ben Smith of Wireless Worker and Rafe Blandford of the All About Media Group (known best to readers of MIR as All About Symbian). [...]

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John Cooper, MD of Pyxis Ventures

John Cooper, MD of Pyxis Ventures

Next on our video episodes from Unlimited Drinks is John Cooper, MD of Pyxis Ventures helping developers get onto mobile platforms. In this video we asked John to give us an overview of his company and how developers can benefit from the services of Pyxis Ventures. Over to John: Unlimited Drinks was kindly supported by [...]

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Paul Burdin of Touchnote interviewed

Paul Burdin of Touchnote interviewed

Next on our video episodes from Unlimited Drinks is Paul Burdin, co-founder of Touchnote turning your pictures into real postcards on your mobile! In this video we asked Paul to tell us about his product and his experience of Unlimited Drinks. Over to Paul: Unlimited Drinks was kindly supported by Qualcomm — thank you very [...]

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“Don’t interview anyone who hasn’t accomplished anything. Ever.”

I liked this post about recruitment by Jon Evans over on TechCrunch. I particularly like his suggestions regarding hiring software engineers — approaches I’ve used in the past. It’s nice to see it’s not just me that thinks the standard technical interview process is a joke. So what should a real interview consist of? Let [...]

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This new mobile world is great, as long as stuff actually works

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch highlights a key fundamental that we often forget at the bleeding edge of the mobile world: The basic stuff has to actually work. For all the talk about 4G and LTE and genius amazing whiz-bang gizmos, the basic reality is that when I hit ‘dial’, I expect my call to [...]

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HP, HTC, Nokia headlining at Qualcomm’s Uplinq event

Look at that list there. That tells you something about the ecosystem that Qualcomm has created in recent years. Uplinq is Qualcomm’s annual developer conference in San Diego and if my experience there last year was anything to go by, this year’s event (June 1st-2nd) is going to be fantastic. The keynote speakers themselves are [...]

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BlackBerry PlayBook HDMI-to-TV Demo

BlackBerry PlayBook HDMI-to-TV Demo

Here’s a quick demonstration of the BlackBerry PlayBook’s impressive 60-frames-a-second 1080p HDMI capabilities filmed in my hotel room at BlackBerry World in Orlando last week. One of the most refreshing things about the PlayBook is that HDMI-out just works. It just works. There’s no arsing around like I was forced to deal with with the [...]

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Three UK: Fascinating example of a missed sales opportunity

No one has my 3UK iPhone 4 number. I don’t tend to call people on it. Instead I use it as a data consumption and creation device. So when an 0845 number called just a moment ago, I thought it might be 3UK calling. It was. The chap calling was one of those highly proficient, [...]

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