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I’m using HolidayPhone’s local Spanish SIM for MWC this year

By Ewan on February 20, 2012 in Services

I was contacted by the team at HolidayPhone recently asking if I was going to Mobile World Congress and would like to check out their local Spanish SIM offering. I was keen to do so — but up until last week I wasn’t planning on going. However, things have changed — and it looks like [...]

Top Tips for staying connected at Mobile World Congress 2012

By Ewan on February 20, 2012 in Services

With MWC just about a week away, it’s time now to get your personal communications plan sorted. I asked Christian Gunning, Director of Corporate Communications at Boingo Wireless for his suggestions. Over to you Christian: – – – – – Attending Mobile World Congress is a bit like weathering the perfect storm for wireless power users. [...]

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Jobs: Do you know any good mobile product managers or strategy people?

By Ewan on February 6, 2012 in Services

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

By Ewan on January 31, 2012 in Services

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 [...]

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Got any suggestions for some DaaS/VDI providers?

By Ewan on January 23, 2012 in Services

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 [...]

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Siri controlling your home environment — I love it!

By Ewan on January 13, 2012 in Devices, Services

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 [...]

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Thanks to Tim and the team at Gemalto

By Ewan on January 11, 2012 in Services

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 [...]

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Square is doing rather well in the States

By Ewan on January 9, 2012 in Services

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 [...]

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NetQin’s got a new Co-CEO and a completely new brand: NQ Mobile

By Ewan on January 6, 2012 in Applications, Services

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 [...]

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Urban Airship is absolutely flying: hires former Skype CSO Christopher Dean

By Ewan on January 6, 2012 in Services

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 [...]

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Finally it’s not just me that thinks FourSquare is a bit limited

By Ewan on January 6, 2012 in Services

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 [...]

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Video Demo: Pay for your Cappuccino with your iPhone

By Ewan on January 4, 2012 in Applications, Services

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:

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