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An Inconvenient PR Truth

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?

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

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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Facebook: The big cheese of the mobile industry?

Hiten Shah’s retweet of this comment from @sbergel really made me think. Here’s the tweet: RT @sbergel: Two billion pieces of content shared on Facebook each week – http://bit.ly/15tCdQ The link leads to this InsideFacebook blog post on recently revealed statistics from Facebook. So there are two billion pieces of content shared on Facebook each [...]

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Vote: Are you buying a Nokia Booklet 3G?

I’ve setup a vote on the right-hand-side here on Mobile Industry Review to capture your perspective on the new Nokia Booklet 3G laptop coming soon (see yesterday’s post). To vote, look over here –> and choose an option. And here’s a nice picture of the Booklet as a reminder:

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Why mobile in the UK is like that scene in the Life of Brian

I think, at least in the United Kindom, we’re still very much at that stage in the movie, the Life of Brian, where the Peoples’ Front of Judea ask “What have the Romans ever given us?” The underlying assumption is that the Romans are rubbish. Until each of the ‘Front’ members pop-up with suggestions unhelpful [...]

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What’s the definition of a smartphone?

I was asked this question the other day: What’s the definition of a smartphone? I didn’t immediately have an answer. I had the answer in my mind… I could feel the neutrons firing but not giving a distinct summary sentence. Then I formulated this: A smartphone is a handset that enables you to manage your [...]

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Vodafone and Carphone are friends again

If you remember, back October 2006, Vodafone decided to go-it-alone with the UK’s second largest mobile phone retailer, Phones4U. The removed the UK’s largest chain, Carphone Warehouse, from the roster and gave Phones4U exclusivity. So if you walk into a Carphone Warehouse, even today, you can’t get a Vodafone service. They won’t offer you a [...]

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Why Ashton Kutcher should launch his own Twitter

Ashton hasn’t reacted all that well to reports that Twitter is getting into bed with a TV channel/show that may well, “put ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.” Here’s a quote from that CNN report: Ashton Kutcher — Twitter’s top tweeter — warned he may pull the plug on [...]

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