Ed Hodges is a man on a mission for Royal Bank of Scotland. He’s the bank’s Head of Mobile for Business & Commercial and he’s hunting for two permanent staff to join him. He dropped me a note to see if I knew anyone appropriate. I’ve a few ideas — indeed, I think there will [...]
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
This is my iPad running the free Citrix Receiver application, which in turn is connected into my demo account on the CyberlinkASP / Rackspace DaaS service. I’ve been trying it out over the past few days and I have to say, the concept of DaaS (“Desktop as a Service”) really does appeal. The ability to [...]
Got any suggestions for some DaaS/VDI providers?
I’m going to try virtualising my Windows desktop. I want it to run in the cloud — fast — and I want to access it wherever I am on the planet. I want my desktop to persist, though, when I’m not online. And I don’t want to mess about hosting it and then having to [...]
Siri controlling your home environment — I love it!
Here’s an example of Apple’s Siri being used to totally control a home environment — from heating to lighting to home entertainment. Have a watch of the video: Simply fantastic. We are really not that far away from being able to do the equivalent of Star Trek’s “COMPUTER: LIGHTS” commands. This real working example (covered [...]
Thanks to Tim and the team at Gemalto
I’m sending a big tip of the fully-branded Mobile Industry Review hat to the team at Gemalto, specifically Tim Cawsey who works in their Corporate Comms team. He’s written a post (“The art of a technology blog”) where he outlines a number of blogs he regularly checks out. Double-kudos to Tim for mentioning Mobile Industry [...]
Square is doing rather well in the States
If you’ve been tracking the developments of the M-Commerce arena, you’ll most probably have had an eye on Square, the mobile payments startup. They’ve been doing rather well of late as this post from TechCrunch points out. It’s a useful primer that’ll bring you up to date. I’m interested to understand what the team at [...]
NetQin’s got a new Co-CEO and a completely new brand: NQ Mobile
Congratulations to Omar Khan on joining NetQin. Omar was formerly the Chief Product and Technology Officer of Samsung Mobile so that’s a rather smart hire for the NetQin team that will give them even more clout. This news comes hot on the heels of their appointment of the mobile industry superstar, Geoff Casely as their [...]
Urban Airship is absolutely flying: hires former Skype CSO Christopher Dean
I’ve been following Urban Airship for quite a long time. They first originated, if you recall, to help service app developers who wanted to be able to send push notifications via iOS easily. That was back in 2009. More than 9 billion push notifications later and the company is now absolutely flying with 25,000+ customers [...]
Finally it’s not just me that thinks FourSquare is a bit limited
See what Yalim K Gerger has to say — finally it’s not just me thinking it’s all getting a little bit limited with FourSquare… When Forrester CEO George Colony, thrashed Foursquare as nonsense, Fred Wilson posted his talk on his web site and commented that “it shows he doesn’t use the product and has no [...]
Video Demo: Pay for your Cappuccino with your iPhone
Following up on my Starbucks post earlier today, thanks to Carl Martin who pointed out this fabulous video from the Starbucks crew showing the all new Starbucks app being used to pay for coffee. Here’s the video:
XCom Global now offers unlimited MiFi usage for $14.95/day in 195 countries
I have to say I’m sorely tempted to try out XCom Global’s latest offering. They can now offer you unlimited data via MiFi (or USB stick) for a thoroughly reasonable $14.95 per day across a phenomenal 195 countries (up from 67 previously). There’s no charge for the equipment and delivery is (generally free if you [...]
Use your iPhone to pay for your Starbucks in the UK
Thank you to reader Iain Mercer who emailed this morning about Starbucks. As a loyal fan of Starbucks filter coffee, Iain has using their reward card enthusiastically along with the hundreds of thousands of other caffeine addicted Brits. For a while now Iain’s been using the Starbucks iOS app to easily locate his nearest shop [...]
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