Was it this time last year that Nokia was burning? I had to check through the Mobile Industry Review archives just to be sure! What a difference a year makes in the mobile industry, eh? This time last year the market was reacting to the news that Nokia had dumped it’s “burning platform” and moved [...]
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Chevron for WP7 should get geek heads turning
Microsoft smartly jumped straight into bed with the team of developers who got together to try and make it easy to hack (or, to install unsigned applications on) their Windows Phone devices. Instead of making it a total flipping nightmare for users, it’s actually going to be rather simple. Here’s the Chevron team with more [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft hasn’t lost a moment capitalising on HP/WebOS
Pradeep over at wmpoweruser.com has published an email that is being sent out to the (apparent) legions of developers jumping ship from WebOS to Windows. The email is from Brandon Watson, top man at Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer relations. You have to hand it to Microsoft: They really do know what they’re doing when it [...]
Anyone fancy the deal to build 300 apps for Nokia?
I’m sure there’s a lot of executives reading who wouldn’t mind the contract to build 300 apps for Nokia. Alas the opportunity has been snapped up by Canadian firm, Polar Mobile. Congratulations chaps. The focus for Polar is obviously Windows Phone — and this news demonstrates Nokia isn’t hanging around. Microsoft has already made good [...]
Uplinq: Jeb Brilliant of aBrilliantBlog gives us his take on the Qualcomm Uplinq event
Here at Uplinq 2011 we interviewed the well-known mobile blogger Jeb Brilliant, who runs aBrilliantBlog. We asked Jeb to give us his perspective on the Uplinq event and the latest Nokia announcements. More from Jeb
Nokia & Microsoft make it official — full release
Here’s the full release from today’s announcement from Nokia regarding their definitive agreement with Microsoft: Espoo, Finland and Redmond, US – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both [...]
Keep an eye on Microsoft — Windows Phone is iterating fast
Jay Greene over at CNET posted a useful overview of Microsoft’s latest activities with Windows Phone. Microsoft offered today its most detailed look yet into the next version of Windows Phone, code-named Mango, at the companys annual show for Web and phone developers. via Microsoft gives details on next Windows Phone OS | Microsoft – [...]
An introduction to TaxiStop by their CEO Gideon Clifton
I was very interested to meet with Gideon Clifton, CEO at upcoming taxi-bookings service, TaxiStop. Gideon was at the BlueVia-Microsoft event to talk about the how TaxiStop is leveraging a plethora of Microsoft and BlueVia technologies to deliver its new service. I’m rather excited at the prospect of using TaxiStop to book my taxi journeys [...]
Soujana Bhumkar of Cooliris introduces LiveShare
At the Microsoft-BlueVia event in London yesterday, Soujana Bhumkar, CEO of Cooliris was there to discuss how his company makes substantial use of both Microsoft and BlueVia technologies. I asked him to give us an overview of the LiveShare service and tell us about how he uses BlueVia/Microsoft to support his business. Over to Soujana:
Meet Richard, co-founder of TweetALondonCab
I’ve been following the growth and success of the phenomenon that is TweetALondonCab for some time now so it was brilliant to be able to capture co-founder Richard Cudlip on camera today at the Microsoft-BlueVia event. Richard was there to talk about his organisation’s new arrangement with the upcoming Taxi service, TaxiStop (see the next [...]
Ron Stevenson of Schakra talks GoGoStat
At the Microsoft-BlueVia event in London today, I met up with Ron Stevenson, Product Manager at Schakra to find out more about their GoGoStat service and to learn more about how they plan to integrate BlueVia into their offering. Here’s his video:
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