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What’s the best way to mobilise an old content management system?

By Ewan on November 2, 2011 in News

A colleague of mine popped by today to ask my advice on mobilising content management systems (“CMS”). His company has a really old, creaking CMS that they’re utterly delighted with. It works fine, they don’t want to change it, everything is perfect. The only thing it doesn’t do is ‘mobile’. It doesn’t recognise iPads, iPhones, [...]

Is your Vodafone Glasgow 3G data not working either?

By Ewan on August 1, 2011 in Operators

The capacity crunch is well and truly biting for Vodafone in Glasgow it seems. Reader Squawkbox tweeted today asking if I knew anyone on the network side at Vodafone to help out. I have been thinking carefully — alas, I’m not sure I do. I wonder. If you’re reading, and you manage Vodafone’s data network [...]

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Do you work in mobile music? Check out midem 2012

By Ewan on July 26, 2011 in News

If you’re working in mobile music, I strongly recommend taking a look at midem. Most people working in music know all about midem, however it’s not so well known in the mobile sphere. modem — always written in lowercase — is the world’s largest and most influential music industry event. It takes place each year [...]

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Jobs: Community Manager needed for Android app company

By Ewan on July 18, 2011 in News

Right then, please do pass this one around to anyone you think might be on the lookout for work. My very good friend Ilana is recruiting for a Community Manager to help out with a company that produces a mobile payments app for the Android platform. This is a super, *super* opportunity to get a [...]

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The patent panic hitting the App Store developers

By Ewan on July 17, 2011 in Applications, Opinion

This is one of those frustrating news items that has the propensity to wind-up everybody and generate a heck of a lot of bad publicity for the key protagonist waving his patents. Charles Arthur over at The Guardian reports that some enterprising software patent owners have decided to have-a-go at mobile application developers that they [...]

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Use the Dominio’s Pizza app to order ahead from their new motorway store

By Ewan on June 16, 2011 in Applications

Another Pizza-themed post today, this time about Dominio’s. The company is about to open it’s first motorway store at the Leigh Delamere East services station in Wiltshire on the M4. This, by the way, should be encouraged. I’m a little bored of the usual Burger King offerings at a lot of these service stations. This [...]

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The conundrum with giving money to Spectrum Interactive

By Ewan on June 16, 2011 in Opinion

I’m in Manchester at the moment doing some filming at Old Trafford, the ‘Theatre of Dreams’ for Manchester United. I came up from London last night and stayed overnight in the Premier Inn next to the stadium. I then had to make what I’m sure is a very familiar decision to most readers — WiFi [...]

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The Pizza Express App: Pay for your meal via PayPal!

By Ewan on June 16, 2011 in Applications, News

Now then, this is brilliant news for all pizza lovers across the United Kingdom — and indeed, anyone else who happens to visit the UK. And anyone who’s been following the burgeoning m-payments space too. You can now pay for your Pizza Express meal using the all new Pizza Express app. It’s fully integrated with [...]

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Jack Dorsey’s Square gets Visa stamp of approval

By Ewan on April 27, 2011 in News

I’ve been banging on about Square for quite a while. They’ve now got a massive, massive stamp of approval in the form of a strategic investment from Visa. Good move on Visa’s part. Keep watching the space. There is no doubt that mobile payments company Square is on a roll. The company just landed a [...]

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Mobile operators? Will they not learn? Charging Google & Facebook? Come on!

By Ewan on April 27, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

Ah dear. Time for a diatribe. I had to knock out a brief comment on this Financial Times post. Here’s the first few paras: Leading European telecoms companies want to levy significant charges on Google and other online content providers through an overhaul of the regime governing how data travel over the internet. Operators in [...]

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Know anyone doing good things with social media in the mobile world?

By Ewan on April 26, 2011 in News

BlogWorld & New Media Expo New York is racing toward us. The event is taking place toward the end of next month (24th-26th May). You can find out more about the event via this interview I did with co-founder Rick Calvert. I’m helping out the organisers with the mobile stream of the event. Therefore I’m [...]

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Regular users of mobile internet love their operator more!

By Ewan on April 14, 2011 in Devices, News

An interesting one in this morning from On Device Research. They’ve completed an international survey, conducted entirely via mobile internet, that has established frequent mobile internet users appear far more satisfied with their operator, compared to those who use the mobile internet now-and-again. Alistair Hill, the managing director of On Device Research, reckons this trend is [...]

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