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Can we all admit that ‘Mobile Web’ is total rubbish?

By Malcolm Murphy on July 20, 2009 in News

Long time SMS Text News and Mobile Industry Review columnist, Malcolm Murphy, is back! And he’s taking no prisoners with his first contribution to MIR 3.0: The mobile web is getting it in the neck. Read on to see if you agree. Over to you, Malcolm: – – – – – How do you access [...]

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Mark Curtis of Flirtomatic: DonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t forget the mobile web

By Ewan on May 22, 2009 in Applications, News

I popped by the Flirtomatic London offices today to meet with founder Mark Curtis and the team.

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Welcome to Mobile Developer TV!

By Ewan on April 29, 2009 in Applications, News, Operators, Opinion

Hello and welcome to Mobile Developer TV. My name is Ewan and I’m founder and Editor.Ã‚Â You can find out more about me here .

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My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

By Ewan on March 16, 2009 in News

If you can’t beat them — that is, get annoyed at the ludicrous nature of follower obsession — join them. Who made money in the gold rush? The hundreds of thousands of folk who went to find gold? Or the people who sold’em spades? Enter my new business. I will sell you 1,000 followers for [...]

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Mobile Network App Stores: Utter, utter rubbish today

By Ewan on March 10, 2009 in News

That’s the fifth presentation that I’ve been to — in as many weeks — featuring some kind of Mobile Operator attempting to explain to a room full of application developers just what they’re trying to do to support mobile development. My most recent experience was watching the chap from Orange France at Mobile Monday Paris [...]

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UCWeb mobile browser – 64 million downloads worldwide

By mjelly on March 6, 2009 in Applications, News

Hi MIR Cru – it’s James from mjelly.com back at Mobile Industry Review for another “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week”. This week we’re going to take test drive of the UCweb mobile browser which is rapidly becoming a major underground hit in the world of mobile internet. what is it? UCweb is a bit [...]

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Nokia Maps, the N86 and getting ready for Prague

By Ben Smith on February 28, 2009 in News

Nokia Maps, the N86 and getting ready for Prague from Ben Smith on Vimeo. In advance of our trip to Prague tomorrow I met up with James Whatley and we talked Nokia Maps and whether Rafe Blandford’s comments about side-loading map data and pre-planning points of interest could be right. We also waved a pre-release [...]

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Fring – MWC Mobile Monday Peer Awards Winner

By mjelly on February 20, 2009 in Applications, News

Hello James from the mjelly mobile 2.0 blog here at Mobile Industry Review with another Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week. Fring is an amazing bit of mobile software that I’ve been using for a while and always planned to cover as one of our featured apps. Earlier this week, (Monday) it was announced that Fring had [...]

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Abphone – a mobile vertical search service taking on Google

By mjelly on February 13, 2009 in Applications, News

Abphone is this month’s “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week” coming to you from mjelly.com here at Mobile Industry Review. After Mbmgl (Japan) and Mxit (South Africa) we continue our showcase of the world’s best mobile 2.0 services with a look at one of France’s hottest mobile startups. What is it? abphone is a mobile [...]

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Fun Text to be pre-loaded on Sony Ericsson handset

By Ben Smith on February 10, 2009 in News

After attending MIR’s first developer’s event last week (see the video here), we’ve had fantastic news in from the team at Fun Text, who’s application provides a range of professionally-produced media such as ecards, emoticons, viral videos and virtual gifts for inclusion in text and multi-media messages. Over to them: Today Sony Ericsson is announcing [...]

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Blacklisted GetJar now on every operator’s Whitelist

By Ewan on February 9, 2009 in News

I followed up with Patrick Mork, VP Marketing of GetJar (got a video of him coming from the MIR Developer Networking event). I wanted to know more about how operators are reacting to GetJar nowadays. For a long time, mobile operators were seeing services such as GetJar (effectively a huge, free app store for mobile [...]

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Google Latitude’s #1 Problem Can’t Be Fixed

By Ewan on February 8, 2009 in News

You can’t fix trust. Not with a click of a button. Have a read of this: 1 in 3 Australians will snoop in the phones of their partners (according to a Virgin Mobile survey). 60% of them do it when their partner is in the shower. 41% do it with their partner in view. (quote [...]

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