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Participate: OVI review

The nice people at WOM World are sending me a handset to try all of Nokia's OVI services which will form the basis for...

Paying for it…

This week, through a haze of man-flu, Iâ€™ve been thinking about how mobile services and operators bill for their services and why itâ€™s all a bit backwards.

iWant iCalendar

I really don't make many phone calls. At all. I'm not doing much mobile e-mail of-late either. It's not that I'm a particularly...

Insuring against the ‘curse’ of the SMS Text News contributor [updated]

It's struck twice three times recently... (Is there a vehicle in North America not sloshing about with Ewan's consumer electronics?) the 'curse' of the...

First Look: O2’s Bluebook

I managed to miss most of the launch coverage of O2's new combined backup and blogging platform 'Bluebook' (technically a re-launch, as another service...

The Social Network in your phone

Today Skydeck, a California-based start-up came out of 'stealth mode' and launched what is on the face of it a consumer-focused call log analyser...

My mobile (holi)day

Bonjour! Hello from the French Alps, where I'm doing a bit of 'end of season' skiing (quite badly). I've bought the usual array...

My other phone(s) shame…

In addition to the iPhone, the E61 and my 'pub phone' (a little-used Skypephone) there's another couple of phones in my life and I'm...

iPhone SDK and Enterprise features announced

At the long-awaited SDK roadmap announcement in Cupertino today Apple released details of the iPhone SDK and a number of new enterprise features. ...

Nokia proximity detector

A little bit of silliness to brighten the afternoon... My girlfriend (name hidden in the image below to protect the innocent) is amazed that...

Picture Message of Escaped Terrorist Sent to 3.9m mobiles

After Singapore's most wanted terror fugitive escaped detention on 27th Feb the mobile phone networks were called on to support the massive man hunt: "The...

What is Ovi? [UPDATE]

Having mentioned Ovi in passing with Donna and Richard from WOMWorld at Whately's Mobile Geeks meet-up this week (he's uber-connected, don' t ya know!)...

iPhone coming to Ireland 14th March

4 months later than I wrongly predicted last September the iPhone is coming to O2 in Ireland for Ã¢â€šÂ¬399 / Ã¢â€šÂ¬499 for 8GB /...

Excellent delivery notification / re-scheduling by SMS

As a postscript to yesterday's post bemoaning the state of Westminster Council's 'pay by mobile' parking system, I got a surprising text from Virgin...

Is it time to subscribe to a printer service from HP?

What’s the best way of buying a phone today?

MWC: What device highlights did you miss?

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