This Christmas was an usual one. It wasn’t traditional in any sense because we moved house on the 15th of December. We didn’t have the familiar build up that even with a new young family I’m accustomed to. Like many families I know, we’ve got to the point whereby we don’t bother with gifts between [...]
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Failed and frustrated by Amazon: Does anyone know why I can’t upgrade my Amazon Cloud Player to premium?
I spend a lot of money with Amazon. Hundreds of pounds a month, if not more. That’s because wherever possible, I direct as much of my spend through the company. I routinely work hard to radically simplify my life and remove as much complexity as possible. Amazon fits perfectly. For example, the moment I think [...]
Kill off the catalogue Argos; You should have been an ‘Amazon’ to me — you still could be!
Argos. I’ve spent a lot with Argos over the years, mostly as a student and then when I still lived in London, I used the Camden branch to buy a lot of necessary nonsense for the apartment. I distinctly remember lugging a flipping ironing board along Euston Road one Sunday afternoon. I really liked the [...]
Amazon: Google’s biggest problem? Quite possibly…
I clicked on this Business Insider post that contains some perspective on what’s keeping Google executives up at night. What Googlers worry about in private is a growing trend among consumers to skip Google altogether, and to just go ahead and search for the product they would like to buy on Amazon.com, or, on mobile [...]
The utterly horrifying reality of today’s consumer cloud services
I’ve got 6 Apple computers live at the moment along with 2 iPads and 3 iPhones. I’d be seriously annoyed if they were lost or stolen. But I’d be safe in the knowledge that the important stuff is stored on iCloud, DropBox, Box, Evernote, Google and Amazon. I’d also be quietly confident of being able [...]
Amazon’s AWS re:Invent — the company’s first global customer/partner conference
This is just a quickie about Amazon’s recently announced re:Invent customer and partner conference. It’s coming up on the 27th of November this year and it’s being held at the rather swish Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. For the most part Amazon has been of passing interest here at Mobile Industry Review (apart from the obvious [...]
Amazon’s planning to launch same-day delivery: Fantastic!
I caught this in a Netimperative story today: Amazon is planning on offering a premium ‘same day delivery’ option for its US customers, in a move that could put further pressures on ecommerce firms and high street retailers alike. via Netimperative | News | Today’s top stories. It’s super news. I hope they bring this [...]
An Amazon Phone? The “aPhone”? Come on! Yes please!
It’s me again. And I’m back beating the drum for innovation and competition in the mobile industry. News — or “reports” — have emerged recently that apparently claim Amazon is developing a mobile phone. The reports reckon the handset will run Android, the assumption being that it’ll be a forked version like that of the [...]
361 Degrees Podcast: It’s the London Book Fair Special Edition
In a special ’361 mini-series’ Ben and Ewan visit London Book Fair to investigate the future of digital publishing and interview some of the leading players. [ MP3 download (five parts) / Subscribe by iTunes, Zune or RSS ] Ewan and Ben visited London Book Fair to investigate how the publishing industry is innovating in [...]
How to “save” $450 on your Lumia 900… avoid reality
Look at this from Amazon. It’s utterly ridiculous: The Lumia 900 is Amazon’s #1 (and #2) selling smartphone at the moment. I happened to click on the American Amazon site just to verify that the phone still held this spot. And in doing so, I saw the $499.99 “list price” label. The phone is “priced [...]
Who’s buying a Kindle Fire then?
I’ve wavering on the Kindle Fire. Obviously it’s not available in the UK officially yet but that won’t necessarily stop me from owning one. I don’t have a standard Kindle. Instead I prefer using the array of apps, mostly on my iPhone or iPad, to access my Amazon library. The Fire, though, that’s something I [...]
Won’t it be brilliant if the Amazon Tablet is everything we hope?
Well I’m delighted — absolutely delighted — that we may well have a serious competitor arriving for Apple in the form of Amazon. I’ve been sitting considering the possibilities of a truly integrated Amazon Tablet. I spend a lot with Amazon. The company is fast approaching business critical status for me — and for my [...]
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