“Shall we go in?” asks Ben Smith. “Errrrr,” say I. I’m thinking about the possible catalogue of problems that could occur. “It’s the Vertu Shop. We’re in Prague. Let’s go in and see if they’ll let us do some filming?” prompts Ben. “Errrrrrrr,” I repeat, still processing the potential issues. The biggest issue in my [...]
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The MIR Billion Dollar Club
I bumped into Dale Thomas of Amdocs last night at the Nexec event. If you work directly in the industry, you’ll most probably have come across Amdocs. They’re a billion dollar company ($3.1 billion in revenue if my memory is working from last night’s conversation with Dale) serving the mobile industry. Dale is President of [...]
Buy a Coke with your Vodafone Current Account
I spoke with the BBC’s Silicon Valley journalist, Maggie Shiels, last week. She was working on a piece about the ‘cashless society‘ — and asked for my perspective on mobile transactions. I asked if she was ready for some rather direct commentary. She was up for listening. I vented forth thus: ‘Take the lead’ “Come [...]
Knowing the customer: It’s all about Frequency
Today we bring you the second of Dominic Travers’ columns on the subject of Frequency. If you missed his first one, (“Stop selling Ringtones and start selling Frequency Data“). Over to you Dominic: – – – – – In the first article in this short series I explored the frequency of mobile user activity in [...]
Twitter… Preserve it!
Twitter, like Facebook is one of my many online addictions. As bad as it sounds, I’m not quite sure how I would properly function without it… Then again, I’ve always been a little odd. One thing that I love most about Twitter is its openness. Anyone can tweet, anyone can follow, and everyone (whether or [...]
‘Twitter is an attention Tragedy Of The Commons in progress’
Have a read of the discussion here and then Mike’s quote below… For people with Discretionary Attention Deficit (DAD) like Ew4n, Twitter is an attention Tragedy Of The Commons in progress. There is no tool except the blunt on-off. Do you agree? Is there a Tragedy of The Commons in progress?
MIR Show goes to Rome and finds locals using N73s
We’re still getting to grips with this international-bloggers-of-mystery concept here at the Mobile Industry Review Show. Instead of bringing you updates, perspective and on-the-road tests from somewhere in London, we decided to take the MIR Show on the road. The first stop, of course, was Rome. We flew out on the 730am British Airways flight [...]
3 inches of snow brings UK to halt thanks to mobile networks
That headline above is not a quote from The Onion. I know most of the Americans and Canadians reading — and we do have a lot reading — simply don’t believe this happens. Here’s today’s headline from The London Telegraph Well it does. Do you remember the video I showed you recently? (“How bad are [...]
Total Unmitigated Arse Spits at TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington
Did you hear about this? I saw the Tweet yesterday and was a little surprised. Michael writes: Yesterday as I was leaving the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face. Before I even understood what was happening, they veered off into the crowd, just another [...]
Normob is ‘ugly word’, use ‘people’ instead
Matt Edgar isn’t impressed with the term I coined a while back to describe normal mobile users: Normob. He’s really deeply unimpressed: But before you’re tempted to drop this particular neologism into your zeitgeisty telecoms discourse, just stop for a moment and listen to yourself. This must surely be one of the ugliest words not [...]
What do you think about Critical Path?
Have you come across Critical Path in your travels? I’ve written about them now and again, particularly in the context of their Memova mobile messaging services. Apart from being dead impressed that they managed to snare the domain, cp.net, I’ve been following them since the dotcom days when they were the company you talked to [...]
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator?
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
- Nokia’s six-screen “Agora” Social Visualizer launches internally
- MWC: I just can’t wait for App Planet!
- Baby Number Two is due any moment — So I’m not going to MWC!
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)
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