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“I’m not in front of my computer at the moment”

By Ewan on May 21, 2012 in Opinion

Earlier today I was on the train. It was packed. The whole carriage was being forced to listen to a Monday morning inane conversation about whether, ‘Lisa has approved that payment.’ Jamie — for that was how the chap introduced himself during multiple calls — was at pains to point out that he, “Wasn’t in [...]

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NQ Mobile now has 172 million registered accounts!

By Ewan on May 9, 2012 in Opinion

172 million folk have opened accounts with consumer antivirus and security specialist, NQ Mobile. By way of context, this figure was 146 million back in December! They’re clearly doing very well indeed. Here’s the company’s first quarter 2012 operating metrics overview from their recent release: Cumulative registered user accounts were 172.0 million as of March 31, [...]

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Episode 10 of the Emporia Telecom video series: Upcoming service features

By Ewan on March 29, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 10 of the Emporia Telecom video series, we meet the company’s Director of Services & Innovation, Michael Rabenstein. Before we filmed this episode, I was talking to Michael about Emporia’s philosophy of handset services — navigation, for example. Michael explained that although there is certainly a use-case for navigation (e.g. Tom-Tom style sat-nav [...]

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Episode 9 of the Emporia Telecom video series: The opportunity for mobile operators

By Ewan on March 23, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 9 of the Emporia Telecom video series, we’re still with Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge. In this video I asked Ian to give us an overview of the opportunity for mobile operators with the audience that Emporia is serving. I strongly recommend watching this one [...]

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Fujitsu’s Robert Pryke: My Top 5 trends for MWC

By Ewan on February 25, 2012 in Devices

I asked Fujitsu’s Robert Pryke to give us a view on his top trends for Mobile World Congress. Robert is director for Fujitsu’s mobile phone business in Europe. Over to you Robert… – – – – – Handset differentiation Apple transformed our perception of the mobile phone; while once those words evoked the image of [...]

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Panasonic: “We’re back!” (With a slim, sexy, high-tech Android smartphone)

By Ewan on February 20, 2012 in Devices

Do you remember when the words “Panasonic” and “Mobile Phone” stood for high quality top-of-the-range handsets? I do. They were the good old days. I remember getting the Panasonic GD87 on contract from Vodafone. It was one of their two marquee handsets for the first version(s) of Vodafone Live — and goodness me, I seriously [...]

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Mobile coupons: Don’t discount for the sake of it

By Ewan on February 8, 2012 in Opinion

I’ve delighted to bring you this contribution from Theresa Wabler, Marketing Director at incentive solutions firm, Parago. Theresa explores a phenomenon that I’ve been watching closely — that is, discounting for the sake of it. Or, discounting where there’s no specific reason to do so. A perfect example is the oft quoted mobile marketing nirvana [...]

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MobDB: The ready-to-use backend for your mobile app

By Ewan on January 10, 2012 in Applications

I came across MobDB the other day thanks to one of those beta lists that I completely forget the name of. When I remember, I’ll update the post. Anyway this one really caught my eye as I think I could seriously use it for a number of applications. Let’s take a step back. What’s the one [...]

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Square is doing rather well in the States

By Ewan on January 9, 2012 in Services

If you’ve been tracking the developments of the M-Commerce arena, you’ll most probably have had an eye on Square, the mobile payments startup. They’ve been doing rather well of late as this post from TechCrunch points out. It’s a useful primer that’ll bring you up to date. I’m interested to understand what the team at [...]

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My landline just rang. I ignored it. I never bother with it anymore…

By Ewan on December 16, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

A strange thing happened this afternoon as I was working away at home. My landline rang and I did absolutely nothing. I let it ring out. I didn’t care. And for the first time ever, I’ve finally arrived into the mindset of: You’re completely irrelevant. Now then, I still use the landline for calling my [...]

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“The train is moving now, my phone network is shit, talk later?”

By Ewan on October 5, 2011 in Operators

I overheard a young lady on the train this evening. She was speaking ‘loudly’ on her iPhone 4 annoying a lot of the other folk in the carriage. Eventually as the train began to move she decided to finish her conversation thus: “Ok the train is moving now so shall we talk later? I’ll get [...]

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M-Commerce: Bank of Montreal deploys PayPass tags “for mobile”

By Ewan on September 15, 2011 in Services

The Bank of Montreal, Canada, isn’t waiting around for mobile operators. Oh no. They’ve taken matters into their own hands and have now deployed PayPass technology for their customers. 70% of Canadians reportedly own mobile phones which is why the bank reckons the time is right. Here’s a bit of detail from Moneyville.ca: Bank of [...]

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