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Connected life with British Airways.. I’m loving it!

By Ewan on October 5, 2011 in Applications, Services

I’m off to Houston, Texas, next week. I’m going to the Internet Retailer M-Commerce Forum and I’m very much looking forward to that. My intent is to speak to as many participants as I can to find out how the field of M-Commerce is moving in the States. My airline of choice is British Airways. Someone [...]

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24hourlondon: A crucial requirement for all those with a social life in London

By Ewan on September 29, 2011 in Applications

A little while ago I came across 24hourlondon. It’s an app that does what it says on the tin. That is, it helps you easily locate London’s 24-hour establishments — or, frankly, the restaurants, bars and clubs that are open late. When you want the night’s festivities to continue beyond the 11pm cut-off imposed by [...]

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iHi is one of those genius little apps you need on your phone

By Ewan on September 20, 2011 in Applications

James Parton writing over at IT Pro Portal has discovered a genius little app. It’s called “iHi” — and it’s really, really simple. Here’s the description James uses: Put simply, iHi is super simple visual communication. You can pick from a list of pre set words or phrases: When selected, the phrase is displayed as [...]

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Android: What do you use for Twitter?

By Ewan on September 19, 2011 in Applications

We had a question posed to us this afternoon by reader Benjamin Lethbridge who asks: What do you hear to be the best Android Twitter client? I actually quite enjoy the plain vanilla official Twitter client — I thought it would be interesting to see what people suggest. What do you use?

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Here’s the list of apps that I actually use every day

By Ewan on September 14, 2011 in Applications

A colleague has recently picked up an iPhone. He’s using it in conjunction with the top of the line BlackBerry Bold 9900. The Bold is doing the corporate email — he, like me, just can’t get away from the gorgeous messaging experience from RIM. However, he got the iPhone to test. He obviously asked for [...]

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AlwaysOnMessage – a MIR favourite – gets their app highlighted by Apple

By Ewan on September 13, 2011 in Applications

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 [...]

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Mobile Developer Titan profile: Intohand

By Ewan on September 12, 2011 in Applications, Operators

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 [...]

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Catching the Indian Mobile Wave

By Dominic on September 7, 2011 in Applications, Devices, Operators, Services

Many global mobile network groups, and key companies in the ecosystem have at one time or another invested in the Indian mobile industry. Drawn to the sheer scale of the worlds largest democracy, mobile ought to be an enormous money earner for all involved. Little in India seems straight forward though. The jailing of a [...]

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Got Android? Go abroad? Get Onavo to avoid being hosed

By Ewan on August 30, 2011 in Applications

If you’re an Android user and you roam regularly, you have probably experienced the ‘what-the?’ moment at least once in recent memory. That’s the moment you realise that the paltry 25mb you’ve been given for your day’s worth of roaming mobile data adds up to about 20 minutes worth of heavy using on an Android [...]

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Domino’s Pizza iPad app is now available (plus, order by PayPal!)

By Ewan on August 23, 2011 in Applications, Services

Pizza and mobile. Two things that are right at the top of my mind on a regular basis. I’ve written regularly about my annoyance of having to phone up to order pizza. It’s just such an inefficient process. So when the first mobile applications and mobile web services arrived, I was delighted. I’ve regularly used [...]

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Microsoft hasn’t lost a moment capitalising on HP/WebOS

By Ewan on August 23, 2011 in Applications, Opinion

Pradeep over at wmpoweruser.com has published an email that is being sent out to the (apparent) legions of developers jumping ship from WebOS to Windows. The email is from Brandon Watson, top man at Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer relations. You have to hand it to Microsoft: They really do know what they’re doing when it [...]

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