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Orange Thursdays Film To Go: Have you downloaded today’s movie?

By Ewan on August 18, 2011 in Operators, Services

Somebody somewhere at Everything Everywhere needs a big, big pat on the back. The deal that Orange has done with Apple to give away free movie rentals every Thursday (full info) will have cost the company money, no doubt. However it appears to be paying huge dividends. Everybody who subscribes to the iTunes newsletter — [...]

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iPhone 5 to hit shelves by September 16th?

By Ewan on August 18, 2011 in Devices

Rumours abound this morning that the iPhone 5 is due to hit shelves by September 16th. Some guy’s sister’s pet’s friend’s Uncle — who met a guy — reckons that it’s a virtual guarantee. “Apple has called in extra support for that whole week,” says the friend’s Uncle (who met a guy), “Which means it’s [...]

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Anyone fancy the deal to build 300 apps for Nokia?

By Ewan on August 17, 2011 in Applications, Devices

I’m sure there’s a lot of executives reading who wouldn’t mind the contract to build 300 apps for Nokia. Alas the opportunity has been snapped up by Canadian firm, Polar Mobile. Congratulations chaps. The focus for Polar is obviously Windows Phone — and this news demonstrates Nokia isn’t hanging around. Microsoft has already made good [...]

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MMS NOT INCLUDED – a classic operator mistake?

By Ewan on August 16, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

In the first of his columns, regular Mobile Industry Review reader Neil Ramsay gets stuck into multimedia messaging. Over to you Neil: – – – – – Remember when you were a kid, rushing excitedly down the stairs on Christmas morning to unwrap and play with your newest toy only to be reduced to a [...]

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Google’s Motorola purchase: Something had to be done

By Ewan on August 16, 2011 in Opinion

Ready for a bit of a brain dump in a semi rambling manner? I wanted to get a few thoughts of my own out before I published those of the readers. First though, let me take a wee look back. It’s been painful to watch Android. There are some fundamentals that have been missing. Ever [...]

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What’s had the biggest impact on mobile? All you can eat data!

By James Whatley on August 10, 2011 in Opinion

I know it’s been a while but, after reading Ewan’s post about mobile impact, I decided to write in… Dear Ewan, I too read the network impact blog post from Pankaj Schroff and I too wondered at what mine would be. My response was instantaneous, however I was utterly stunned to discover that both your [...]

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Operator Innovation: Let me access my SMS everywhere?

By Ewan on August 10, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

Hello dear reader, it’s me again with another Operator Innovation post. The series has been terrifically well received — thank you once more to all the executives from around the industry who’ve complemented us. And hello to the chaps from o2 Innovation who, almost every week, point out that they’re working on something very similar. [...]

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Mobile Developer Titan profile: Mubaloo

By Ewan on August 10, 2011 in Applications, Operators

I’m delighted to bring you the second Mobile Developer Titan profile in our series supported by Telefonica’s BlueVia developer programme. You can the background to the series here. This time we’re featuring the phenomenal team at Mubaloo. They’re the people behind some absolutely stonking applications for some of the country’s most recognisable brands. So, [...]

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What’s had the most impact on the mobile industry? Instant Email!

By Ewan on August 9, 2011 in Opinion

I spotted this interesting post over on the Tellabs blog by their Product Strategy Director, Pankaj Shroff. Pankaj asks what do you think has had the most impact on the mobile industry. He runs through a list of points including the rise of the app store, the introduction of mobile web browsing, convergence of social [...]

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Video: BlackBerry Torch 9810 walk-through

By Momchil on August 9, 2011 in Devices

This is Momchil here with a demo of the BlackBerry Torch 9810. This is the second video walk-through which Ewan captured on site at the BlackBerry 7 Media Event. Demonstrating the device is Vivek Bhardwaj, head of RIM software EMEA Product Management. Here is the video:

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London Riots: It’s not about BBM, it’s about proper policing

By Ewan on August 9, 2011 in Opinion, Services

I’ve been reading countless stories and many Tweets about BlackBerry Messenger in connection with the London Riots over the past few days. I think it’s time we — as an industry — took a step back and put some rather outlandish and ridiculous proposed strategies to bed. Most arguments have centred around the ‘youths’ or [...]

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London Riots: I hope the phone companies are disabling all their stock

By Ewan on August 8, 2011 in Opinion

Have you seen what’s going on in London recently? It’s absolutely ridiculous. We’ve had serious riots going on — the sort of thing we’re more accustomed to seeing taking place during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It originally started because there was some kind of shooting of a chap. This chap may [...]

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