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Just how much of a problem is Facebook for the operator industry?

By Ewan on May 11, 2012 in Operators, Opinion

A thought-provoking research note from the team at Strand Consult: People who believe that Google is currently the biggest threat to mobile operators may not realise exactly how much time mobile customers are using on Facebook and how Facebook is currently changing the way over 800 million people communicate on a daily basis. The biggest [...]

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Did Apple’s ‘early mistakes’ screw up the iPhone potential? Nonsense.

By Ewan on December 29, 2010 in Devices, Operators, Opinion

Thanks to reader Jeffrey who emailed me this piece from MacNN published earlier this month. Jeffrey’s writing a paper for his board and wanted to know what I thought of the issue. I knocked off some thoughts to him and then asked if he wouldn’t mind if I published a summary here. The post reckons [...]

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The Risku Manifesto: A radical plan to rescue Nokia

By Ewan on July 22, 2010 in Opinion

Following on from Tomi’s lengthy piece on Nokia (“Nokia’s fall from grace: The Background Story“), I thoroughly enjoyed Andrew Orlowski’s piece in today’s Register. Andrew interviewed a former senior Nokia Executive, Juhani Risku, who’s penned a ‘diagnosis of the company’ along with ‘some radical surprising solutions.’ It makes for a super read. A super read. [...]

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Nokia’s fall from grace: The Background Story

By Ewan on July 22, 2010 in Opinion

Yesterday, Tomi Ahonen posted yet another magnum opus chronicling Nokia under Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s reign. It makes for absolutely compelling reading, especially — and I mean especially — if you’re drinking the Apple Koolaid, or if you are curious as to how Nokia was once regarded as an impregnable super-brand and now is effectively relegated to [...]

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Malcolm Barclay: “Expectations of mobile technology outweigh what’s possible”

By Ewan on May 25, 2010 in Opinion

Did you get the newsletter last night? My main focus last night was a series of use-cases that I’d love to see in mobile — but in reality, I know that it’ll take decades to deliver. The underlying infrastructure is just too flakey. Read the original post here. To my delight, Malcolm Barclay, the iPhone [...]

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Fear the Googlepipe

By Ewan on March 17, 2010 in Operators, Opinion

The nice chaps at Mobile Entertainment magazine ran my ‘Fear The Googlepipe‘ opinion-piece yesterday morning. Did you catch it? It’s based on a post I did a little while ago about the launch of the arrival of the Nexus One and what that could mean for your common-or-garden mobile operator. I say ‘based’, but the [...]

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Beyond The iPhone: A World of Opportunity

By Ewan on March 15, 2010 in Opinion

It’s getting a little bit silly now, dear reader. Ridiculously silly. We’ve had a good year now of mobile applications taking off, going ballistic. Now, though, it’s time for the industry to get real about the iPhone: It isn’t the only handset on the marketplace. The World Is Not Flat I understand that the iPhone [...]

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The US Startup Visa: A boon for dismayed, frustrated British entrepreneurs

By Ewan on March 4, 2010 in Opinion

I’ve been reading a lot about the proposed US Startup Visa. Right now, one of the biggest things that prevents smart entrepreneurs (British or otherwise) from going to live and work in Silicon Valley, is the Visa issue. Sure, most nationalities can get 3 months worth of time in the States, but after that, they [...]

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First AT&T phone with Google Android will feature Yahoo search to annoy the hell out of every user

By Ewan on March 4, 2010 in Opinion

You have to smile when grown up executives who should know better sit back and make stupid decisions. The AppleInsider is reporting that…. Although Google makes the Android mobile operating system, the search giant’s chief competitor, Yahoo, will be the default provider on AT&T’s first Android-powered handset, due to be released March 7. Great. Talk [...]

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An Inconvenient PR Truth

By Ewan on January 28, 2010 in Opinion

I came across this on SteDavies’ site. It’s a video by release delivery specialists, RealWire. The key points? – 1.7 billion irrelevant press release emails estimated to be received in total each year by UK and US Journalists alone – 78% of press release emails are received by Recipients to whom they are irrelevant – [...]

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What’s the best backpack a geek can buy?

By Ewan on October 28, 2009 in Opinion

Who makes the world’s best backpacks (or rucksack as we call them in the UK) for (mobile) geeks? I’m looking for a recommendation. You know, something that’ll carry a laptop, maybe even charge it via a solar panel, lots of pockets for phones and iPhones… integrated headphone loop or something like that? What’s the absolute [...]

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PRs: Please don’t send me anything using Newscom

By Ewan on October 22, 2009 in Opinion

If you’re a public relations professional, you probably use a company to do the broad distribution of your press releases and materials. One company, Newscom, really, really frustrates me — and I thought I’d lend a bit of insight. I’m working on a post about a wristband tag that patiences would wear in hospitals. It [...]

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