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361 degrees podcast – Episode 9: Nokia, what next?

By Ewan on June 29, 2011 in Opinion

Right this week things got a little bit interesting. Ben describes the debate between Rafe and I as, “a little bit heated” in the text below. I think, at one point, I was screaming words to the effect of, “You’re completely WRONG” at Mr Blandford. This is, you understand, all in the spirit of a [...]

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Uplinq: Dan Baker of Qualcomm demonstrates energy efficient Dual-Core processors

By Momchil on June 28, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

This is Momchil with a video of energy saving Dual Core processors from Qualcomm. Dan Baker, Communications Coordinator at Qualcomm; demonstrates how reduced processor speed results in more than 60% power saving while gaming. More from Dan:

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The Truth About iMessage in iOS 5: It’s Sublime

By Michael Selvidge on June 27, 2011 in Applications

For years, I’ve been told about how cool BBM is on the BlackBerry. BlackBerry users tried to tell me why it was so cool, but they never succeeded. It always ended with a “You have to use it yourself, and then you’d understand.” I knew the details about how BBM worked, but I didn’t understand. [...]

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Carsten Mickeleit of Cortado on the Cloud Printing Alliance

By Momchil on June 22, 2011 in News

I’ve been looking at a whole host of mobile enterprise possibilities and one of the rather mundane areas is printing from mobile. I use the word ‘mundane’ there because frankly, printing isn’t that sexy. But it’s something we all need to do now-and-again. Paper, unfortunately, sometimes is necessary. So when you’re swanning around with your [...]

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Video: Nokia N9 design story — worth a look

By Ewan on June 21, 2011 in Devices

Nokia is getting it. This is a glimpse of what’s coming from the company. Suspend your disbelief about the current state of the company and just have a watch of this:

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Nokia’s N9: The full release (you need to read it)

By Ewan on June 21, 2011 in Devices

Now then, this release is critical reading for anyone following the mobile industry. This is the launch released regarding the Nokia N9 — in full. First of all, read it. Don’t read it critically. Don’t think about platforms, don’t think about brands, just try and ‘take it in’ without making the usual judgements we all [...]

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FT, You’re Missing the Point With Your HTML 5 iPad Web App (an open letter to FT.com)

By Michael Selvidge on June 20, 2011 in Opinion

FT. Don’t get me wrong. I know what you are trying to do here with your HTML 5 web app. It’s actually pretty slick, and delivers on a lot of the promises about HTML 5 that I’ve been hearing lo these many years. You want to go around Apple’s 30% subscription cut, I get it. [...]

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Uplinq: Brian Spencer, Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC demonstrates in-browser camera functionality

By Momchil on June 17, 2011 in Applications, Devices, Opinion

This is Momchil here with a video of Brian Spencer, Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC. Brian demonstrates AllJoyn camera functionality in a web page. Using a little Android doll and two smartphones, Brian shows us how AllJoyn technology works inside a web browser. Here is the video:

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Boingo: Are there any better WiFi roaming alternatives?

By Ewan on June 17, 2011 in Opinion, Services

I had the following note in from Boingo tonight. If you haven’t come across them, Boingo is the world’s largest network of WiFi hotspots. I use them regularly, especially when I’m abroad. They’re great with airports, hotels, coffee shops and so on. I particularly like the way their laptop software automatically logs you in — [...]

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361 degrees podcast – Episode 8: Roaming Ranting

By Ewan on June 16, 2011 in Opinion

Episode 8 – Roaming ranting… (mp3) This week we talk about international roaming services and wonder why these services – and especially data – command such premium pricing. We discuss: The recent MACH Insights conference. The products and services we use for roaming including Vodafone’s data traveller service, Abroadband, Droam, Onavo, Truphone and MiFi devices. The wetpaint Wiki for information on global pre-paid [...]

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Use the Dominio’s Pizza app to order ahead from their new motorway store

By Ewan on June 16, 2011 in Applications

Another Pizza-themed post today, this time about Dominio’s. The company is about to open it’s first motorway store at the Leigh Delamere East services station in Wiltshire on the M4. This, by the way, should be encouraged. I’m a little bored of the usual Burger King offerings at a lot of these service stations. This [...]

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Uplinq: Jeb Brilliant of aBrilliantBlog gives us his take on the Qualcomm Uplinq event

By Momchil on June 16, 2011 in Opinion

Here at Uplinq 2011 we interviewed the well-known mobile blogger Jeb Brilliant, who runs aBrilliantBlog. We asked Jeb to give us his perspective on the Uplinq event and the latest Nokia announcements. More from Jeb

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