A quick nod over to the team at AlwaysOnMessage — the first chaps to be featured in our Mobile Developer Titan series. Their restaurant guide app has just been promoted to ‘featured’ status by the Apple iTunes editorial team. Congratulations AoM! I’ve just downloaded the app — it’s looking rather smart! You can pick it up [...]
Archive | September, 2011
This just arrived from the States
I’m looking forward to checking it out. Any recommendations for some apps and services to look at? Posted via email from MIR Live
Senior Market Mobile 2011: Highly recommended — next Tuesday
I spoke last year at the Senior Market Mobile 2010 event. I really enjoyed the event and found it simply fascinating to discover the almost completely unfulfilled needs of the world’s elderly citizens. It’s actually a huge market, especially in the UK where so many ‘connected seniors’ have a decent amount of disposable income. The [...]
3′s E586 MiFi: Blown away by the ridiculously fast speed!
So as I wrote earlier, I’m waiting for my BT Infinity service to be connected tomorrow so I’m using my all new 3 E586 MiFi that I got last week. (Do read about the rather frustrating circumstances of that.) I thought I’d do another post about the MiFi just to illustrate how good I’m [...]
Mobile Developer Titan profile: Intohand
For a long time I’ve been interacting with Kieran Gutteridge on Twitter. He’s one of those independent mobile developers that the large mobile operators, manufacturers and platforms are chasing obsessively, quite simply, because if you can win him over, your platform might stand a chance. It’s all very well paying millions to a game developer [...]
My new 3 Huwaei E586 MiFi: Faster than 65% of UK connections
That image there highlights just how good the all new 3 MiFi (Model: E586) is when it comes to offering a usable internet connection. Indeed, this connection isn’t just usable, according to Speedtest.net, it’s actually better than 65% of the rest of the United Kingdom. Love it. I’m using this at home in Ascot and [...]
Phone number normalisation standards — help?
I had an email in from a reader who heads up the helpdesk at a large FTSE. Here’s his challenge: Dear Ewan, We’re in the process of normalising our phone numbers in our active directory structure. Right now, all our numbers are formatted +44 (0) 123 456789. A few years ago, this standard was fully [...]
Canadian operator Rogers files to become a bank
This is one of the highest profile examples of an operator filing to become a bank. Most of the time when I speak to senior executives about their plans in this area, they reply that, ‘all that filing-to-be-a-bank stuff is complicated’, and the conversation ends. It’s nice to see an operator doing something a little [...]
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for your free Orange film: The Losers
It’s FilmToGo Thursday. Or Orange Thursday. Or Orange FilmToGo Day! This week’s film is The Losers which, I have to say, looks like good old fashioned suspend-your-disbelief Michael Bay-style action. Plus it features that dude from The Wire, Idris Elba. Anything with him is bound to be worth a look. I forgot my Orange iPhone [...]
Just how important is carrier subsidy in the marketplace? Huge.
Carrier subsidy is one of those areas of the marketplace that is traditionally overlooked — completely — by many commentators, especially those with a rather large partisan axe to grind (e.g. iOS fanboys vs Android fanboys). During discussions about Nokia’s future, many a time I’ve indicated that executives privately point out they are hearing good [...]
Land Securities deploys MobileIron-enabled iPads to its workforce
It’s getting interesting out there in the enterprise marketplace. More and more FTSEs are feeling the pressure from their employees to get ahead and implement iPads. The benefits of the tablet technology can be quite dramatic — provided you’ve got a slight rose tint and a progressive nature. As we’ve been cataloguing here on Mobile [...]
HTML5: is it consumer-ready yet?
It’s all very well being at the bleeding edge, but I have to say when the FT iPad HTML5 web app insisted I dick about with clearing cache settings and restarting my device to complete install, I did do a double-take. By all means request this of me (a consummate mobile technology geek) but I [...]
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