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 [...]
Manufacturer that’s meant to be dead is #1 UK Smartphone vendor for the 2nd year running (That’s RIM, in case you were wondering)
A bit of news in from RIM this afternoon that’s sure to a) keep the RIM UK team smiling and b) require a bit of a reset from the hordes declaring RIM-is-dead when it clearly isn’t: The latest results from data firm GfK show that BlackBerry® was the #1 selling smartphone in the British market [...]
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 [...]
T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
For a long time I’ve been banging on about mobile operators simply not ‘getting it’. One of the key points I’ve been keen to assert is that dicking about charging me stupid little pennies (or, actually, huge lumps of pennies) for calls, texts and so on, was a total waste of time and resources. In [...]
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 [...]
Convention Center saves $50k deploying iPads & FileMaker solution
Here’s a useful case study on how the city of Austin’s Convention Center team have used iPads to replace their old paper folders. It’s yet another example of the consumerisation of the information technology departments. The city of Austin’s Convention Center waves goodbye to over-sized, overstuffed paper binders by deploying iPads and developing custom apps [...]
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 [...]
Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
There’s a mini firestorm brewing this morning around o2 UK. Earlier this morning, Matt Brian over at The Next Web broke the story about a ridiculously shocking privacy breach by o2. Here’s a bit of Matt’s story: If you reside in the UK and you are one of the millions of subscribers to mobile operator [...]
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 [...]
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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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- Baby Number Two is due any moment — So I’m not going to MWC!
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)
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