Our little Archie just turned 18 months old and already he is a dab hand at the iPad. It’s being rather useful when we’re trying to distract him from teething discomfort — but at the same time, we’re trying to avoid making it a guaranteed addition to ‘business as usual’, lest he grow up unable [...]
Archive | December, 2011
Path v2 has arrived: Have you downloaded it yet?
Just over 11 months ago, I downloaded Path — a rather nice app for sharing events and photos. I had a play around and, if memory serves, used it a few times and then moved on. Fast forward to today and all of a sudden I am receiving tons and tons of invitations to use [...]
Deadline Extended: Do you work for the UK’s most innovative mobile company?
Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012, UK Trade & Investment is hunting furiously for the UK’s most innovative mobile company. They launched a competition, Smart UK Project, to find a UK company with a product or service that has the potential to change the way people use mobiles across the world. I’m confident we’ll see [...]
My landline just rang. I ignored it. I never bother with it anymore…
A strange thing happened this afternoon as I was working away at home. My landline rang and I did absolutely nothing. I let it ring out. I didn’t care. And for the first time ever, I’ve finally arrived into the mindset of: You’re completely irrelevant. Now then, I still use the landline for calling my [...]
‪Mobile Video Optimisation: Time for a new era? ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
Noam Green from Mobixell caught my recent post about the data capacity crunch and sent in this contribution as a response — along with an infographic (at the bottom). Over to Noam: – – – – – Current approaches to mobile network and content optimisation will fail to address the real requirements of managing the [...]
James Murdoch takes the BlackBerry “More?” defence
If you’ve been following the newspaper hacking scandal, you’ll no doubt have caught the recent admission from James Murdoch: Apparently he did receive that email — but since he received it on his BlackBerry, he didn’t read the whole email. This is a reasonable argument. I’ve done this many times. Sometimes if you’ve got poor [...]
Infographic: The bigger the screen, the bigger the click-through-rate
Well it’s Infographic time here at Mobile Industry Review thanks to the team at mobile advertising specialists, Inneractive. Based on their information, screen size correlates directly to click-through rates (“CTR”). For instance, on the iPhone, Inneractive report an average CTR of 4.35%. That’s pretty good anyway — but when it comes to the iPad, the [...]
How I spent £432 in 4 minutes on my iPad
Last night I was on the phone to my father catching up on the week’s excitement. Of course, the Christmas period is arriving fast and one of his particular tasks this weekend is to pick up Gran. This means driving from Essex to Glasgow, staying overnight and then driving back with Gran. My father quite [...]
What do you think about Desktop as a Service (“DaaS”)?
I’ve been testing out a 7-day trial account from Desktone. They offer ‘desktop as a service’ for organisations looking to virtualise their end user operations. They describe themselves as ‘the industry’s only cloud-hosted VDI’. I really like the concept of sticking everything in the cloud. I do it as much as I can with all [...]
Virginia Tech: SMS & email updates did their job
Reading about today’s events at Virginia Tech, I’m pleased that the mobile medium played a critical part in alerting students of the issue: This time the universitys 30,000 students promptly received email and text message alerts warning them about the gunman. The university website and Twitter account swiftly alerted the outside world to developments onsite. [...]
Update your flipping apps on your iPhone: PLEASE!
This post over at Textually got me going. It shows a very busy iPhone screen. What annoyed the hell out of me was the fact that there are 16 apps waiting for an update. ARRRRGH! I simply cannot stand it when someone shows me their iPhone for some reason or other. You know, to demonstrate [...]
Shoeboxed: I’m really enjoying dumping the clutter
Have you checked out Shoeboxed.com recently? It’s the service that takes physical paper clutter from you and then scans/organises it in an online locker. I’ve been using it for receipts, business cards, bills, invoices — all the sorts of things I tend to have to hoard just-in-case. More recently I’ve been using either their app [...]
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