I’ve had a lot of enquiries from readers wondering if I’ll be at Mobile World Congress this year. Normally, that’s an automatic yes. I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to ‘meet the industry’ in Barcelona. Yes, it’s seriously tiring and yes, the thieves and vagabonds roaming Barcelona are seriously unpleasant. However MWC is a brilliant occasion [...]
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MEF Americas 2011: Recapping the Event
At the end of MEF Americas 2011 in Miami I spoke to MEF Executive Director Rimma Perelmuter and MEF Global Chair Andrew Bud to recap the themes of the event. MEF Executive Director Rimma Perelmuter In the interview we discuss: MEF’s 2011 Global Consumer Survey and how it is driving both MEF members decision making [...]
MEF Americas 2011: Marco Argenti discusses Nokia’s support for developers
At MEF Americas in Miami I spoke to Marco Argenti, SVP Developer Experience & Marketplace at Nokia, talking about the firm’s focus on and support for developers. We talked through the benefits of Windows Phone 7 (including ‘Live Tiles’), how Nokia helps developers address a broad (and crucially, global) market and how – and this [...]
Hello to all the o2 employees working from home in today’s flexible working pilot
A quarter of o2′s 12,000 employees are working from home today. The company has shut the doors at their Slough HQ for this day only, in support of what they’re terming as the country’s biggest ever flexible working pilot. It certainly sounds like it to me. The point of the exercise is to test the [...]
MWC is 3 weeks away: If you need a bit of a push, sponsor our coverage!
Mobile World Congress isn’t far away now. The noise has already begun — at least when I’m looking at the avalanche of emails arriving about the planet’s biggest mobile event. Back in January I wrote about some of the rather cool sponsorship packages we’ve got ready-and-waiting to help boost attention during this period. We’ll be [...]
Are you NOT going to MWC? This event might be for you!
I’ve had a note in from James Whatley about an upcoming MWC drinks event — with a bit of a difference! Read on for more details: Dan and James are doing it again: Are you having trouble making it to MWC? Have you decided to say ‘BALLS!’ to Barcelona? Do you have a slight obsession [...]
MEF Americas 2011: ‘App to person’ messaging is the long-tail for SMS
Whilst much of the discussion at MEF Americas 2011 concerned mobile apps and the usual challenges for developers of addressing multiple platforms, there was an interesting panel session which reminded me that SMS is completely cross platform and available to all ‘out of the box’. As obvious as this sounds, I’d missed the implication which John Orlando of Sixth [...]
MEF Americas 2011: Using mobile to help the ‘unbanked’
Whilst at MEF Americas 2011 I was amazed to hear the statistic that around 60 million US citizens are ‘unbanked’… that is ‘without a bank account’. I was aware that many in developing economies chose not to or were unable to access banking services, but author Gary Schwartz explained it was also a widespread – and [...]
Live Event: MEF Americas 2011
Wireless Worker is at MEF Americas 2011 and will be covering the 2 day industry event which covers North & Latin America’s mobile content and commerce ecosystems live from Miami. Our coverage: Neil Stiles, president of Variety Group says “You can’t charge more for content just by delivering it to an iPhone” (audio) and Beware the risk of [...]
Get me the best retail guy around! Wait? You say he’s from Dixons?
Dixons? The retail chain store in the UK? The dated, dusty and generally dreadful technology store? Oh dear. Let’s be clear, Dixons Travel is pretty excellent. I’ve bought quite a lot from them over the years — indeed I even picked up a £1,400 laptop once on a semi-whim. Dixons Travel shops at Heathrow tend [...]
Variety president Neil Stiles has a blunt assessment of firms trying to make new money from old content
Neil Stiles – president of the Variety Group, the leading entertainment industry news organisation - knows ‘content’… he both sells news and produces the definitive coverage of the film, music and TV industries. Speaking to me at MEF Americas 2011 in Miami his take on delivering to mobile devices is blunt: It’s a really nice idea to think that if [...]
Standby for some MEF Americas video interviews
Our good friend Ben Smith over at Wireless Worker was lucky enough to find himself in Miami in December last month for MEF Americas 2011. He filmed interviews with lots of different senior executives from the likes of Coca Cola, Visa and OnStar. We’ll be publishing them here shortly across a number of days so [...]
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- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
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