Posts Tagged ‘interview’

Ben interviewing Palm Pre’s product manager

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

We will be bringing you some super Palm Pre coverage shortly.

We interview Nokia’s Niklas Savander

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Yesterday evening we sat down with Nokia’s Niklas Savander to have a chat — not your usual ‘how’s your EBITDA’ style conversation. Instead we asked him what his first and current handsets were. We asked what his favourite movie was. We asked him what was next with Nokia services, what his children thought of Nokia and what third party applications he liked.

In short, it’s an alternative interview. Let’s talk to the man rather than the company. They don’t come much bigger than the likes of Niklas. He runs Nokia’s Services offering (”Executive Vice President, Services” to give him his formal title) and he’s also on the Nokia Executive Board. We thoroughly enjoyed it and we’ll be bringing that to you very shortly.

You can read Niklas’ bio here.

Watch the video here:


Niklas Savander of Nokia: The Alternative Interview from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

Vote for the companies you’d like us to interview at MWC

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

We’re offering you something a bit different here for Mobile World Congress. As you may know, around this time, our inboxes start filling up with hundreds of pitches and event/interview invitations from public relations and marketing people eager to in front of you.

Usually these pitches are lost on you, dear reader. Because they never see the light of day.

Because there are usually hundreds of emails flowing in, it can sometimes get very difficult indeed to decide what is relevant and what might be semi-interesting — or, more often than not, what MIGHT be relevant if we tweak the pitch.

If you’ve ever wanted to get a look at this part of the editorial process, now’s your chance.

I’ve cut and paste the first 400-800 characters of a lot of the emails I have received. I’ve published almost every decent one that we’ve been sent — dropping the entirely irrelevant ones (e.g. Would you like to learn about our circuit board capacitor technologies? No. But thanks!)

After reader Jonathan Mulholland’s suggestion on my earlier post, we’ve implemented a ‘Digg style’ interface at http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/mwc/.

Headlines are lifted directly from the emails — although in some cases the unimaginative (”Invitation to meet at MWC”) have been changed to make it relevant when you’re reading down. The content is a cut and paste — again where relevant. And I’ve also linked, where possible, to the company’s URL.

[Note: It's surprising how many PRs don't bother putting their client's web addresses on pitches]

And that’s it. It’s now over to you. Now, in order that we control the voting a little, you will need to sign-up for an account. It takes biliseconds. We just need a username and password (and email in case you forget your detalis) — that way we prevent folk multiple digging stories.

Anyone can vote.

We’ll pay attention to those that rise to the top over the next weeks.

We’ve got our own plans to bring you wicked coverage from MWC irrespective of the results from the MWC Pitch system — just, the top selections that have audience support will get our attention. We’ll aim to arrange an interview and/or do a video interview with those companies.

If you find a pitch that you’d REALLY like to see get some attention, dig it — and then post a comment explaining why.

You can, of course, hit the BURY button and reduce the chances of particular pitches from moving up the charts.

If you click on the comments for any story, you’ll also get to see what usernames dug each story. I’m down as ‘digging’ everything because I submitted most o them.

That said — you too can submit your own pitch using the ‘Submit a Pitch’ button on the frontpage. Headline, description and a URL and woosh, your pitch will be live. Go ahead and publish if you’re up for it and cut us out the loop.

Finally, a note on how the pitches are ranked. Firstly, new pitches appear at the top temporarily — and then slowly descend by time. Those with actual digs next to them rise swiftly and — if no new pitches have been added recently, appear right at the top. Right now SpinVox and Sony Ericsson’s party are up the top with 4 digs each, closely followed by Microsoft’s press conference and HTC’s event.

So it’s over to you now. Your mouse is now a weapon of misery or joy depending on how you wield your digs…

Click here to start rating the current MWC Pitches: http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/mwc/

MIR Show - Week 47 - The INQ interview - Part One

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

I sat down with the INQ chaps just after they launched their first handset, the INQ1, to ask them all about the company. This is part one of their interview featuring Jeff Taylor (who heads up marketing) and Ken Johnstone (who is the product genius).

In the interview I asked nearly all of the questions sent in so hopefully you’ll spot your answers.

Part Two tomorrow!

You can, by the way, pick up an INQ1 here.

INQ interview tomorrow - have you got any questions for them?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I’m meeting two of the INQ Co-Founders tomorrow in Battersea. Apart from the fact that I’ll probably get a nosebleed having to go south of the River Thames, I am looking forward to it.

I’m meeting with Jeff Taylor who runs Marketing and Kevin Johnstone who is the product and UI genius.

I’ll be filming the interview — and in a departure from the norm, I’m even taking the tripod.

If you’ve got any questions you’d like to put to the INQ chaps, then now is the time. I’ll also get some close-up shots of the device itself.

Then I’m off to see ShoZu, I’m talking with the top chap from IMI Mobile, I’m doing some hardware review pieces and then the MIR Show guys should be popping by to discuss the all new Nokia E63. It’s a busy one!

And if you’d like to see the photos from today’s INQ launch — check out Rob’s piece.

Geraldine Wilson, CEO of Truphone - interview today

Friday, November 7th, 2008

We’re interviewing Geraldine Wilson, the newly appointed Chief Executive of Truphone, this afternoon. Our fearless former Accenture Demon, Ed Hodges (of Howler Tech), is readying a list of questions to put to her on camera, later today.

If you’d like to ask her a question, either email it to me directly — ewan@mobileindustryreview.com or post a comment below…

Get on the MIR Show - product and pitch interview opportunities

Monday, October 27th, 2008

This Friday we’re going to be at One Alfred Place shooting the upcoming Mobile Industry Review show.

And we’re looking for some guests to feature. If you’d like to show off a product or pitch your mobile service to the MIR Show audience this Friday afternoon (or other Fridays), please get in touch.

I’m best on ewan@mobileindustryreview.com.

Preview of interview with Simon Ainslie, Head of Nokia UK

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

After the post I published last night about Simon, we’ve had a lot of mails from readers wanting to see how he performed.

Instead of having to wait ’til Monday, here’s a quick 2.5 minutes with the man himself from last night. We’ll publish the full interview on Monday.


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