Kudos to Rafe Blandford over at All About Symbian who wrote-up what looks like the whole of Stephen Elop’s keynote at Qualcomm’s Uplinq event recently. He also embedded the video of Stephen’s presentation — I totally forgot Qualcomm had made it available. I do thoroughly recommend taking a bit of time out and watching this [...]
Archive | June, 2011
Location ‘holy grail’ features now offered by BlueVia
Now then, for years — YEARS — developers have been crying out for proper location APIs from mobile operators to use. Years. It got so bad that the unthinkable eventually happened — Nokia was forced to start including GPS chips in their handsets. It was THAT bad. And it was unthinkable because of the battery [...]
BlueVia’s API now reaches 150 million subscribers
BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer arm, now reaches a whopping 150 million subscribers across 7 countries — or, to put this in context — you can now reach over half of Telefonica’s 290 million customers. News like this really does demonstrate the power and flexibility of the BlueVia API. In one swoop, they’ve enabled their service for [...]
Uber mobile blogger, Will Park is now at NVIDIA
Congratulations to Will Park — he’s just recently joined graphics company NVIDIA as their Social Media Content Editor. I met the chap numerous times when I was criss-crossing the Atlantic to San Francisco and always found him very approachable, friendly and highly knowledgeable. The nature of covering today’s mobile industry meant that we often bumped [...]
361 degrees podcast – Episode 7: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be
Listen! This week we reminisce about the devices we’ve owned and loved over the years. We highlight a few we think were real ‘market changers’, a few lemons and speculate about who might make the next game-changer. Rafe also lets slip the secret of his magic drawers. Amongst the devices we discuss this week are [...]
IDC’s smartphone forecast: 55% increase this year, reckons 1 billion will ship by 2015
Right then, here’s some useful information for anyone who’s having to get their presentations sorted for the next quarterly board meeting. The chaps over at IDC have released their latest forecast and it makes for stimulating reading. You won’t be surprised by the Symbian statistics, will you? IDC has their marketshare for 2011 at a [...]
HP’s TouchPad hits UK by mid-July starting at £399
Here’s the press release from the team at HP: BRACKNELL, United Kingdom, June 9th, 2011 – HP today announced that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available in the UK from mid-July. HP’s first webOS tablet will be available in the United States, France and Germany on July 1st , with availability scheduled [...]
Larry Fox of Trimble Outdoors talks at Uplinq 2011 Part 2
Larry Fox runs Business Development for Trimble Outdoors. Trimble Outdoors produces Apps for the outdoor community, offering a wide variety of solutions for every outdoor enthusiast from the backpacker to the hiker, the biker, the hunter and the fisher. More from Larry:
Spotted a PlayBook in the wild today
Sitting at Gate A4 at Berlin’s Tegel Airport this afternoon, I spotted a young chap playing with a BlackBerry PlayBook. Apart from the various BlackBerry and mobile events I’ve attended recently, this is the first time I’ve seen a civilian actually using a PlayBook. I spotted it across the gate — the chap was playing [...]
Nurit Vatnik of Amdocs talks at InTouch
Nurit Vatnik, Director of Amdocs Cross Portfolio, talks about the wide portfolio of products and services developed at Amdocs. Across the portfolio there are solutions providing real answers to business questions of the customers. More from Nurit:
361 Degrees podcast – Episode 6: Windows Phone, Mango & Odd Juice
Listen! Ben and Rafe head to the Millbank Tower in London for the official UK unveiling of Mango, Microsoft’s latest (and most major) update to the Windows Phone 7 platform (Wireless Worker coverage, All About Symbian coverage) where we also interview Oded Ran, Head of Consumer Marketing, Windows Phone, UK. I joined the chaps afterwards as we discuss: The ’500′ [...]
361 Degrees podcast – Episode 5: BlackBerry Bickering
Listen! In a noisy (and slightly longer than normal) Episode 5 recorded ‘on the go’ in a hotel back-room, we argue about Blackberry… a lot. Well… Ben and I argue. Rafe plays peacemaker. We ‘discuss‘: What was announced at Blackberry World. The platform changes that Blackberry is going through. The RIM / Microsoft partnership. The Playbook tablet device. The new QNX [...]
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Use your iPhone to pay for your Starbucks in the UK
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Chuck the flowers and buy her a Kindle?
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