I just found out that on 22nd of November, Google is going to discontinue their Gmail App for BlackBerry. This is a serious, serious problem for me. Ultra serious. Let me explain. I have 12GB of email in my personal Google Apps account. I have 7GB in my Mobile Industry Review Google Apps account. I [...]
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Here’s the list of apps that I actually use every day
A colleague has recently picked up an iPhone. He’s using it in conjunction with the top of the line BlackBerry Bold 9900. The Bold is doing the corporate email — he, like me, just can’t get away from the gorgeous messaging experience from RIM. However, he got the iPhone to test. He obviously asked for [...]
James Whatley on the importance of ecosystems
Whatley is back this week with his perspective on ecosystems — a word that’s increasingly being integrated into the marketing communications of almost every key player in the marketplace. Years back, an ecosystem meant having a few developers knock out some expensive and rather limited third-party apps. Nowadays the term has much wider connotations. Over [...]
Google’s Motorola purchase: Something had to be done
Ready for a bit of a brain dump in a semi rambling manner? I wanted to get a few thoughts of my own out before I published those of the readers. First though, let me take a wee look back. It’s been painful to watch Android. There are some fundamentals that have been missing. Ever [...]
Patrick Mork of GetJar is now Marketing Director for Mobile Apps at Google
Congratulations to Patrick Mork who has been leading the marketing team at mobile apps giant GetJar. Patrick is off to pastures new — Google pastures, to be precise. He’s going to be taking a bit of time out then he joins the Googleplex as Marketing Director for Mobile Applications. I’ve me the chap often at [...]
Google+ and the Android Trojan Horse
I was skeptical at first, but I think there is a future in Google+. I’ve been using it this last week, and it’s not perfect, but not bad either. I was skeptical because of Google’s massive social fails in Buzz, Latitude, Wave and +1 (although to be fair +1 on its own is a fail, [...]
Data Roaming: Why non-RIM smartphones suck
Come with me on a journey. This is a long one and coffee or tea is recommended. I’m a Vodafone UK customer. I have opted-in to their special European data roaming deal that gives me 25mb of roaming data per day, in return for £2. Now that’s cheap. Very cheap, when Vodafone will normally take [...]
Google’s reaction to Nokia & Microsoft: “Turkeys”
Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra is not at all impressed with news that Nokia and Microsoft are aiming to work together. Not at all. Vic published this tweet with the hash-tag #feb11: So, Nokia’s definitely not doing business with Google Android in the short term then, eh? Depending on the configuration of the [...]
HTC Legend/My Tracks monitoring Tour de France riders
Team HTC-Columbia are currently whizzing through Stage 6 of the Tour de France bicycle race and right now, one of the riders, Maxime Monfort (age 27) is traveling at 36km/h and is delivering 241 Watts of power on top of a 102bpm heart rate. How do I know this? Well his HTC Legend phone is [...]
Google Android activating almost 5m devices a month
News in from Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin on Android’s growth: Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated — that’s nearly two devices every second, used for the first time by people from New York to New Zealand 160,000 x 30 days = 4.8m a month or just short of 58m a year. Utterly [...]
In-App carrier billing for Android announced; nobody knows if it’s ‘allowed’ though
Hello Mr Developer, would you like to use in-app payment for Android? Yes? Good. What’s that? You want to know if it’s allowed? Well of course it’s allowed. What about Google? Well, they’re … they… they haven’t really said much about it. So when can we get you signed up? What’s that? You want to [...]
Google.com/phone Is Dead! Long Live The Mobile Operator
Back at the beginning of this year, Google’s launch of the Nexus One sent shockwaves around the industry. Mobile operators were quaking in their boots. Quaking, I tell you. Not because of the Nexus One’s market leading features, no. But because of the manner in which Google decided to sell the device: Direct to the [...]
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