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Everything Everywhere: Olaf’s introductory note

By Ewan on July 18, 2011 in News

Here’s the introductory email from the new CEO arriving into the inboxes of Orange and T-Mobile employees across the UK today: As you will by now be aware, I have been asked to take over as Chief Executive Officer for Everything Everywhere, following Tom’s decision to resign for personal and family reasons. It is with [...]

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Tom Alexander exits Everything Everywhere

By Ewan on July 18, 2011 in News

The news is just breaking that Tom Alexander, top man at UK operator, Everything Everywhere, is exiting the business. Here’s the mail he sent internally announcing the news this morning. This morning, I resigned from my post as chief executive of Everything Everywhere, and I will step down at the end of August. There is [...]

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James Parton of BlueVia and Andreas Constantinou Ph.D. discussing Developer Economics 2011

By Momchil on July 18, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

This is Momchil here with a video about Developer Economics. James Parton of BlueVia and Andreas Constantinou Ph.D. of VisionMobile are discussing Developer Economics 2011. Here is the video: @jamesparton @bluevia @andreascon @visionmobile

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Jobs: Community Manager needed for Android app company

By Ewan on July 18, 2011 in News

Right then, please do pass this one around to anyone you think might be on the lookout for work. My very good friend Ilana is recruiting for a Community Manager to help out with a company that produces a mobile payments app for the Android platform. This is a super, *super* opportunity to get a [...]

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The iPhone Nano — some supporting evidence

By Ewan on July 17, 2011 in Opinion

Last week I wrote about the inevitability of the iPhone Nano as a strategy from Apple. That will, I’m sure, manifest itself in a ‘cheaper’ iPhone range (say, £300 total cost) and, over time, price points way below. Quite a few people questioned me on this. “Apple’s no need,” they said, “Things are rosy,” they [...]

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The patent panic hitting the App Store developers

By Ewan on July 17, 2011 in Applications, Opinion

This is one of those frustrating news items that has the propensity to wind-up everybody and generate a heck of a lot of bad publicity for the key protagonist waving his patents. Charles Arthur over at The Guardian reports that some enterprising software patent owners have decided to have-a-go at mobile application developers that they [...]

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Who’s buying an HP TouchPad then?

By Ewan on July 15, 2011 in News

When I saw the device back in Barcelona in February, it was definitely looking promising. Will you be picking up a TouchPad shortly? Posted via email from MIR Live

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You know, I do go on about Vodafone, but..

By Ewan on July 15, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

I was just having a look through the Vodafone eForum. It’s a tremendous resource for customers and, I think it’s fair to say, one of Vodafone’s best additions to their customer service offering, ever. The eForum is a pretty harrowing read if you’re someone like me. I’m fixated by what operators should be doing. I’m [...]

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What are your smartphone bothersome things?

By Ewan on July 14, 2011 in News

Kudos to Matthew Miller over at ZDNet for picking up the 361 degrees podcast in a post today. Here’s what he had to say: I am a podcast junkie and enjoy listening to them as I run on the roads around my neighborhood. One of the newest podcasts I subscribed to is co-hosted by my [...]

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The FT’s HTML5 app heralds the death of the App Store

By Ewan on July 14, 2011 in Applications, Opinion

I’m delighted to bring you an opinion piece regarding the future of the app store concept. It’s written by Tod Peddler, CEO at MobileNationHQ. Over to you Tod: – – – – – The Death of the App Store As has been well reported, the FT recently created its own HTML5 app to circumnavigate the [...]

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How many mobile operators treat your voicemail like an irrelevant after-thought?

By Ewan on July 13, 2011 in Applications, Operators, Services

I’ve written extensively on voicemail. It’s a pretty boring topic most of the time. It took an enlightening and fundamentally inspiring conversation with Hullomail‘s CEO, Andy Munarriz to get me really excited about the subject. I even ended up producing a 4-part series on The Future of Voicemail, kindly supported by the Hullomail team. In [...]

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Phone hacking: How 3UK easily helps hackers get to work

By Ewan on July 13, 2011 in News

I just received this email from a senior executive working in the mobile industry. Have a read. It is pretty shocking: I’m stunned. I just called 3UK *Business support* from a random landline and got the PIN on my voicemail changed, using just the info on my business card. All they asked for was my [...]

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