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Orange Film To Go: Free iTunes movies on Thursday – genius move

By Ewan on August 8, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

It’s not often that I feel ready to pronounce good news in the mobile industry, especially when it comes to mobile operators. For the most part, mobile operators collectively have their heads in the sand. Frankly, it’s been utterly depressing to watch. Oh, I know you’re not all bad. Collectively, you’re utter shit. Individually, though [...]

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Patrick Mork of GetJar is now Marketing Director for Mobile Apps at Google

By Ewan on August 8, 2011 in Applications, News

Congratulations to Patrick Mork who has been leading the marketing team at mobile apps giant GetJar. Patrick is off to pastures new — Google pastures, to be precise. He’s going to be taking a bit of time out then he joins the Googleplex as Marketing Director for Mobile Applications. I’ve me the chap often at [...]

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3′s outbound sales people can only add new lines? Crazy!

By Ewan on August 8, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

I just had a phone call from 3 again. Do you remember last time, they phoned to offer me a special deal. The deal was something like X minutes, X texts, for £15 a month. I remember last time telling them, “No thanks, but I’d very much like to buy an iPad from you,” (and [...]

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Video: BlackBerry Torch 9860 walk-through

By Momchil on August 8, 2011 in Devices

This is Momchil here with a demo of the BlackBerry Torch 9860. Ewan was on site at the launch event last week and managed to capture this video overview of the all new BlackBerry Torch featuring the new BlackBerry OS7. I’m currently using the first generation BlackBerry Torch and I think I’d like the new [...]

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Can you locate your device if lost? Sort it out today!

By Ewan on August 8, 2011 in Services

Thanks to reader Mark for sending me over this story from Ars Technica. It describes how author Jon Barrow managed to eventually recover his lost phone using Plan B from Lookout Mobile Security. Jon was lucky because he lost an Android phone — and since it had the latest version of the OS, he was [...]

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Review – Speck SeeThru case for MacBook Air 11″ – Speck-tacular!

By Michael Selvidge on August 8, 2011 in News

Anyone who knows me knows that I am an Apple fanboy. But I have room in my heart to be another kind of fanboy–especially when it feeds my fanboyism for Apple. I’m talking about my lust for Speck, the Palo Alto based case designer/manufacturers who (mostly) make cases for Apple products. My very first Speck case, [...]

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HTC EVO 3D: Not Vodafone UK, but possibly other territories

By Ewan on August 4, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Now then, I’ve had quite a few emails from readers hunting for the rather gorgeous HTC Evo 3D phone on Vodafone UK. The operator *was* going to range it, however plans have changed. You won’t get it in the UK via Vodafone. However the company’s representatives point out that if you’re abroad, living somewhere with [...]

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Operator Innovation: One number for all my voice calls

By Ewan on August 4, 2011 in Operators

It’s time once again for the Operator Innovation post. I’m delighted to report that the series has been gaining substantial attention from a host of senior mobile industry executives. To these executives, let me say this: 1. I love you all. In a proper manly way. Without your continued efforts and those of the industry, [...]

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Vodafone: “Forget that text we sent on Monday”

By Ewan on August 3, 2011 in News

Do you remember my post from Monday about the price change notification text I got from Vodafone? The text included a non-functional URL which, I thought, was a little inconvenient as I wasn’t able to see what prices were changing. Well, it didn’t matter anyway! That’s because the company has, it seems, changed its mind. Or made a [...]

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BlackBerry’s new devices: The full release

By Ewan on August 3, 2011 in Devices

Here’s the full release covering today’s new device announcements: Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to launch 5 new BlackBerry® smartphones based on the BlackBerry® 7 Operating System (OS). RIM, in conjunction with carriers and distribution partners around the world, is rolling out two new BlackBerry® Bold™ models and three [...]

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Heading to the BlackBerry launch event this morning

By Ewan on August 3, 2011 in News

This morning is all about RIM. Today there’s a media event to which the world’s press (well, the UK lot, anyway) are invited. The expectation is that RIM will be launching some new hardware. Bring it on. I won’t be surprised to see a few services chucked in there but the focus should hopefully be [...]

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