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Archive | August, 2011

HP Touchpad: The breakout success of the summer? Only at £89!

By Ewan on August 23, 2011 in Devices

There’s always a market, it just depends on the price. Sometimes it’s free. Sometimes you need to pay folk. Other times you just need to adjust the price a little. It turns out that there is what us economists refer to as dramatic elasticity when it comes to tablets that aren’t named ‘iPad’. Whilst nobody [...]

HP Touchpad for £89? You better be really quick…

By Ewan on August 22, 2011 in Devices

I am working on an opinion piece about HP and their Touchpad/WebOS strategy. Whilst that bubbles away in the back of my mind, I wanted to get this post up and out — Dixons in the UK are apparently going to shortly release HP Touchpads for sale at the much reduced price of £89 for [...]

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Jobs: Digital hotshot required to revolutionise London Book Fair

By Ewan on August 22, 2011 in News

I’ve been working with the team at London Book Fair. They are on the hunt for a Digital Sales Manager — and I theorised that you, dear reader, might know someone they should be talking to. London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation for a whole host of mediums, not just print [...]

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LogMeIn Ignition for half price, highly recommended

By Ewan on August 22, 2011 in Applications, Services

LogMeIn is one of those services that I use more or less every day. It’s a superb remote access solution that enables you to connect to any one of your computers from any web browser. I use it to re-export videos and upload them, to find a file I forgot to put on DropBox, to [...]

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Operator Innovation: Access any airport lounge with T-Mobile GlobalPlus+

By Ewan on August 20, 2011 in Opinion

It’s time for the sixth post in our Operator Innovation series. Last week I looked at the issue of SMS and how operators still have time to leverage one of their strongest assets — messaging and the phone number identity that underpins it. This week I’m looking at added value — or semi-intangibles. I’ve often [...]

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British Airways considering issue of 1,800 iPads to cabin crew

By Ewan on August 19, 2011 in Devices

The iPad’s march toward enterprise dominance continues with news today that 100 senior British Airways cabin crew team are evaluating the tablets for use in the air. The intent, reports the Telegraph, is for crews to be able to replace the reams of paper (e.g. the passenger manifest) with a funky live (or almost [...]

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Did you get The Wrestler? I flipping missed it — I was too late!

By Ewan on August 19, 2011 in Operators

I missed it! I absolutely totally missed it! I tried to get the Orange Film To Go code for The Wrestler but I was way, way too late. I think it was gone midnight (so Friday morning) when I tried to download it and unfortunately, it was unavailable. This is good news. Well, bad news [...]

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Experimenting with a new theme

By Ewan on August 19, 2011 in News

Hello, I’m Ewan. I thought it was time for a change so I’m experimenting with a new theme here on MIR. I’ve done the initial work but I need to sort out some kind of featured posts section for the BlueVia Developer Titan series. I also need to sort out the right-hand columns. In fact [...]

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Why HP killed WebOS: “No apps, no sales”

By Ewan on August 19, 2011 in Opinion

I was going to write a big post on HP and WebOS. I was working away on a ‘What now for WebOS?’ post … until I caught the news that this, too, was dead. Here’s PC World’s overview: HP’s WebOS crashes under Apple, Android Pressure. Goodness me it’s been quite a week for big movements. [...]

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Tiny Tower: Hugely addictive, rather expensive!

By Ewan on August 18, 2011 in Applications

New contributor Neil Ramsay is back once again this week with a look at Tiny Towering Inferno. Over to you Neil… – – – – – Tiny Tower (iTunes link, free) is a game for iOS devices; it’s insanely addictive and best of all it’s free, kind off. You see Tiny Tower, developed by NimbleBit, [...]

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IntraLinks brings secure enterprise-grade file access to iPhone and iPad

By Ewan on August 18, 2011 in Applications, Services

There’s a real problem with iPhones and iPads: Enterprise security. When your chairman is looking at emails from his granddaughter on his iPad, there’s no issue. Things start to get tricky, from a compliance point of view, when he’s accessing ‘market moving information’ (e.g. an acquisition proposal) on his iPad whilst sitting in a Starbucks. [...]

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BlackBerry saves lost hiker — lucky she had signal!

By Ewan on August 18, 2011 in Devices

I wanted to document this one from today’s Telegraph. The poor lady in question got rather lost in foggy weather somewhere in the Lake District. Rescuers couldn’t work out where she was so they got creative: Mr Blakey added: “We asked her to take a photograph of her surroundings on her phone and send it [...]

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