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Nokia’s six-screen “Agora” Social Visualizer launches internally

By Ewan on February 14, 2012 in Devices

Here’s an insight into how Nokia is harnessing the vast array of daily social media discussion about it’s brands into one single visual platform. They’ve called it “Agora” (after the Greek place of meeting) and they’ve made a little video showing it off. If you’re at all interested in social media, this will be of [...]

MWC: I just can’t wait for App Planet!

By jan on February 14, 2012 in Opinion

Hello it’s Jan Macijewski here. Many of you may have met me at some of the Mobile Industry Review events last year. For a long time I’ve been one of the chaps in the background helping provide perspective and insight as part of the Mobile Industry Review Advisory Board. This, if you haven’t come across [...]

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Baby Number Two is due any moment — So I’m not going to MWC!

By Ewan on February 14, 2012 in News

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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Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)

By Ewan on February 14, 2012 in Operators

If you’ve got a few minutes, go and have a read of this post from Peter Svensson of the Associated Press on Yahoo.com. It highlights the consumer shock and outrage at having their operators completely change the game on them. We’ve heard this all before, of course. The consumer buys an “unlimited” data plan only [...]

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Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?

By Ewan on February 13, 2012 in Devices

I have been banging on about the Cisco Cius for a long, long time now. (See my post: “Cisco Cius: an iPad for the enterprise,” June 30th 2010.) Ever since the global networking giant announced their entry into the tablet market, I have been mentioning them in the same breath as Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry’s PlayBook [...]

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Is Nokia’s rehabilitation in the Western Media complete?

By Ewan on February 13, 2012 in Opinion

Was it this time last year that Nokia was burning? I had to check through the Mobile Industry Review archives just to be sure! What a difference a year makes in the mobile industry, eh? This time last year the market was reacting to the news that Nokia had dumped it’s “burning platform” and moved [...]

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MEF Americas 2011: Recapping the Event

By shauna on February 10, 2012 in News

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 [...]

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Have you see what o2′s been doing with their #o2Cupid campaign?

By Ewan on February 9, 2012 in Operators

Kudos to the team at o2 who’re having a bit of fun and spreading the lurrve this Valentine’s Day through a series of personalised video messages from ‘Cupid’. There’s a hot Cupid (look out, ladies) and there’s a panto-dame-style Cupid — have a watch of his introduction and explanation: It looks like the Cupid service [...]

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MEF Americas 2011: Marco Argenti discusses Nokia’s support for developers

By shauna on February 8, 2012 in News

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 [...]

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Mobile coupons: Don’t discount for the sake of it

By Ewan on February 8, 2012 in Opinion

I’ve delighted to bring you this contribution from Theresa Wabler, Marketing Director at incentive solutions firm, Parago. Theresa explores a phenomenon that I’ve been watching closely — that is, discounting for the sake of it. Or, discounting where there’s no specific reason to do so. A perfect example is the oft quoted mobile marketing nirvana [...]

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Hello to all the o2 employees working from home in today’s flexible working pilot

By Ewan on February 8, 2012 in News

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 [...]

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Is Tim Cook throwing chairs across his office right now after this iTV leak?

By Ewan on February 7, 2012 in Devices

Have a quick read and see what you think — it looks like someone working at these Canadian networks has been very, very leaky: In a rather unexpected twist, Canada’s largest newspaper and newspaper of record — The Globe and Mail — has published details of Apple’s upcoming iTV. According to the paper, Rogers and [...]

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