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Exclusive Video: Visiarc’s “Mobile Documents” for Nokia

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

This one was a total exclusive. Peter and his team of mobile gurus from Visiarc have had a chat with our friend Rafe from All About Symbian — but as far as I know, we’re the first to publish an in-depth video overview of what could, potentially, be some earth shattering stuff. This is the kind of thing I could see Google buying and re-branding as a Gmail client.

Take ten minutes, get yourself a coffee and sit and watch Peter’s walk-through demonstration. To begin with, expect to think ‘oh, that’s neat’. Toward the end, I hope you’ll start to think ‘ahhhh, now this is rather smart’.

And remember, everything you’re seeing is being done via a GPRS connection. We tried filming this whole thing three times outside at the Mobile World Congress and each time Peter’s 5800 Nokia kept on dropping wifi signal. So we reverted back to GRPS.

And it still works phenomenally well.

Here’s the video:

Jennifer Grenz of ShoZu drops an exclusive

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

James Whatley bumped into the whirlwind that is Jennifer Grenz of ShoZu at the Handmark/Pocket Express/Orange party during Mobile World Congress. We captured the exchange on film — Jennifer gives us an overview of ShoZu, issues a possible exclusive and tries a Mobile Industry Review jacket on for size.

Here’s the video:

And Finally … with Andrew Bud of mBlox

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

I couldn’t resist asking Andrew Bud, top chap at international mobile services company, mBlox, ‘What was your first handset?’

His answer was one of the most interesting we’ve ever had on Mobile Industry Review…

This is just a small vid — 1 minute 23 seconds. Have a watch — here it is:

In conversation with Hannah Summers of Acision

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Hannah Summers is VP of Global Marketing for messaging behemoth, Acision. If you haven’t come across them before, you most probably use their systems every day of the week without knowing it. Their software powers a huge amount of the text and multimedia messaging services of the world’s biggest operators.

We popped by the Acision stand at Mobile World Congress to find out what was going on and I asked Hannah if she’d mind doing a quick chat on camera. It wasn’t planned — but ever the professional, she consented and then competently batted my questions into touch. Nice one Hannah. Watch as I fire question after question at her and she handles them all brilliantly. What is Acision, how do you pronounce it, what phone, what network, do you text, do take pictures with your handset? Do you send them via MMS?

We’ll also be bringing you a longer video featuring the CTO of Acision — probably next week depending on editorial schedules.

Here’s the vid of Hannah:

Karin Du Rietz of Rubberduck Media on Video Transcoding

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

I bumped into Karin from Rubberduck Media Lab at the Nexec networking event during Mobile World Congress. She pitched me on Rubberduck Media Lab (mobile video transcoding experts) and I asked if we could put her on camera the next day.

If you’re into mobile video or mobile video transcoding, I think you’ll find them an interesting company to take a look at. And top marks to whoever came up with the name, Rubberduck Media Lab. It’s one that you won’t forget in a hurry!

Here’s the video:

Andrew Bud on mBlox’s Sender-Pays Mobile Data offering

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

At Mobile World Congress, we made a b-line for the mBlox stand to find out more about their Sender-Pays Data offering. It’s highly, highly innovative, still a trial — and only for the UK networks at the moment (with the exception of T-Mobile UK!). Andrew explains the concept in the video, but briefly, here’s the issue:

If you’re a content provider selling, say, a video or a music track via mobile at a cost of £3 — that’s not usually the final cost paid by the user. Data isn’t typically included. So you might end up having to pay £3 to the content provider — and then something stupid like £10 or more — to download the actual content.

Ridiculous and hugely, hugely problematic when you’re trying to encourage the market and prevent user bill shock. Well, mBlox have worked out a model whereby you, as a content provider, can pay for the data downloads of your customers (at, one imagines, a decently advantageous rate) so that the price you advertise your content for is the price the user pays. Rather smart.

Anyway. Over to Andrew to explain.

Find our more about Sender Pays here.

Nokia N86 in the flesh, in Prague

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Over the weekend we headed to Prague to film the latest MIR TV show (it’ll be up and online soon) and took the Nokia N86 with us to give it a once-over. James got hold of it the other week and although he couldn’t join us in Prague, he was good enough to loan it for us for our 24 hour trip. We simply couldn’t make you wait for N86 footage though. So here it is. Do remember that the device itself is a pre-production unit and we are very, very much liking it. Step-aside Mr N95 8GB.

Ben and Dan present.

Andrew Bud gives mBlox overview

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

We caught up with Andrew Bud, Executive Chairman of mobile services provider, mBlox. We talked with Andrew for a good 25 minutes at the mBlox stand at Mobile World Congress. In this video, Andrew gives an overview of the mBlox service — very useful if you’ve seen them around but always wondered what they do.

Standby for more from mBlox shortly.


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