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 [...]
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RSS feed for this sectionGet 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 [...]
How about an iPad instead of flowers for Valentine’s Day?
An iPad: It’s the gift that keeps on giving! That’s the perspective that Apple has adopted with their most recent newsletter mailing. It echoes the message that Amazon has been advertising recently (see my post from last week) and it’s a compelling story. For anyone who can afford to spend £399 on an iPad on [...]
Chuck the flowers and buy her a Kindle?
I like the way this advert from Amazon speaks directly to me. Valentine’s Day? Nice reminder. Gift? Yeah I need to think about that. Oh, a Kindle? Good idea! I like buying technology. That said my wife already uses the Kindle app on her iPhone. But maybe she needs a stand-alone device? It’s better than [...]
The Pre-MWC Drinks Reception: Thank you for coming!
The pre-MWC drinks reception with Hotwire PR took place last night in London. It was absolutely fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet everyone and discuss MWC. There was a simply brilliant array of vendors and brands represented, from e-commerce platforms to aggregators, digital service providers, mobile advertising, telecoms — indeed the selection of [...]
By 2020, the planet will have 24 billion connected devices – Infographic!
It’s Infographic time thanks to the team at the GSMA. They’ve completed a study of the wide array of product announcements at CES earlier this month. The study shows that more than half of the devices launched are ‘connected‘ in some way (i.e. 3G/4G/WiFi). This is super news for the wireless marketplace. In specific categories, [...]
Stream Communications launches super-fast 3G data service
I met this company at the UKTI MWC event this week and was thoroughly excited by the possibilities of their offering. I’m having a crazy day today so here’s their press release. Have a read and see what you think: Stream Communications announces the launch of freeflow, a new extra fast 3G service and SIM for [...]
The Smartphone sales stats for last quarter are out… have a read!
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech just released their quarterly update showing operating system share of smartphone sales. Their stats always make interesting reading. Here’s what Kantar has to say: Apple’s iPhone 4S launch has helped the company regain global momentum with the US driving growth, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. In the latest 12 [...]
Bluetooth headsets like this should be outlawed
I can’t stand to see folk wearing Bluetooth in-ear microphone headsets out-and-about. I really can’t. It’s one of those things that seriously winds me up. I have no problem whatsoever with people wearing them for work purposes — delivery drivers, plumbers, you know, folk who have a specific use-case requirement. Sitting on the train wearing [...]
Pre-MWC drinks this Wednesday in London — are you coming?
It’s not long until the pre-MWC drinks reception on Wednesday night in London! Are you coming? It’s being hosted by Hotwire PR — and I’m going to be there to provide my perspective on the world’s largest mobile event. Principally I’ll be talking hints and tips — as will the Hotwire PR team as they [...]
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