Worldwide executive travellers like our good selves are always on the hunt for new and exciting technology that makes our life simple, and a dual-SIM phone is one of those must-have devices. But we’re now faced with a dilemma, is two enough? Should we be looking for a three SIM phone instead? Luckily, the clever…
Month: September 2010
News
Facebook is the king of apps
Nielsen has launched the first update to its Nielsen App Playbook study, and to celebrate they’re sharing some of the data for free. The most recent version of the study has just been released and it is based on an August 2010 survey of more than 4,000 US mobile subscribers who had reported downloading a…
News
Telegraph launches an iPad app
In our post earlier this morning we gave full marks to the FT for getting a sponsor for their initial iPad app, and now it’s the turn of the Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. The Telegraph for iPad application launched yesterday and is described as free for “a limited period” – they don’t say when…
Analysis, News
FT iPad app hits 400,000 downloads
Those who think the iPad and apps in general are just vanity products would have done well to listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. The iPad is far from a vanity product, it’s also a key way of making revenue. The FT’s Editor Lionel Barber speaking on the Today programme said…
News
Location info from phones to be used to validate mcommerce
By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90% of mobile transactions, according to Gartner. Gartner said that the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream with fixed-line computing.…
News
Microsoft to launch Zune store for WP7
Tech giant to launch store and subscription service for Xbox 360, Windows PCs and Windows Phone 7 phones within weeks
News
O2 get promotional on their iPad data pricing
O2’s iPad customers are up in arms at O2’s decision to cut their monthly data allocations. O2 customers who signed up for the iPad were initially told they could choose from plans with a 500MB cap, a 1 GB cap, or a 3 GB cap, but O2 has changed it’s terms and those caps are…
Analysis
American drivers fear texts more than life
HLP Im a8out 2 CRASH LOL ;-( The American Automobile Association (AAA) has found that the majority of motorists on US roads feel less safe than they did five years ago, and what are they afraid of? Other motorists texting while driving. Nearly a quarter of Americans admitted to reading or texting while driving. The…
News
Another Nokia exec out: UK head jumps to Pace as president
The music hasn’t stopped at the top levels of the Finnish mobile phone maker, which is losing a fourth top-level executive
Events, News
Diary Date – DroidCon London 28-29 Oct
Another date for you diary. This time it’s DroidCon a two-day London based Barcamp and conference for Android lovers in sunny Islington in late October. The first day will be a barcamp style day (think geeks, pizza, fizzy pop, tech, tech, tech) organised by attendees where everyone is encouraged to share in the things which…
News
500,000 mobile apps are downloaded daily
New research from Borrell Associates finds that users don’t hold on to their apps According to Borrell Associates, worldwide we’re download some 500,000 apps per hour, unfortunately for developers and brands around the world, most of those apps are quickly discarded by consumers. The appallingly badly named report “Mobile Applications: Preparing for the App-ocalypse”, shows…
News
BlackBerry users at 1.5million downloads a day
Research In Motion (RIM) has said that BlackBerry App World users are downloading more than 1.5 million apps per day on average. The total of 1.5 million downloads also represents a 40 percent increase for RIM over the previous, which is not bad considering that earlier this month they announced they had hit the 10,000…
Analysis
Facebook to deliver a mobile phone?
Reports over the weekend from sites like TechCrunch were all alight about the possibility of Facebook having their own phone. Facebook have of course denied it, but what if it were true? What would happen if Facebook had their own mobile? Well for a start it would make perfect economic sense. Many of the sites…
Events, News
Date for the diary – Mobile Cloud Computing Forum
Enterprise Mobility will be high on the agenda at the Mobile Cloud Computing Forum, taking place on the 1st December 2010 at RIBA, London. Sessions at the one day conference and exhibition will include an overview of the Mobile Cloud Computing Proposition and Marketplace, Mobile Cloud and Enterprise Applications, The Challenges for the Mobile Cloud…
News
In Nokia World, the future’s bright – or so it seems
The mobile giant is a master of hardware. But software is more important now
News
Why you won’t see smaller iPads next year – though you will see revised iPads
The rumour mill is working overtime to suggest that Apple is going to try to compete with Samsung and others in offering a 7-inch tablet early in 2011. Here’s why that’s misguided – and what Apple will actually do
News
Microsoft launch Mobile Ad SDK for WP7
Microsoft Advertising has launched their Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile, which it describes as ” the industry’s first real-time, bidded ad exchange in mobile”. According to Microsoft’s Advertsing Team’s Raj Kapoor on the official Microsoft Advertising Blog, the launch, will allow Windows Phone 7 app developers to…
News
More iPad updates from iOS 4.2
According to Apple the original intention for the release of iOS 4.2, coming so close after bug-fix 4.1 , was to harmonise the iPad iOS with the iPhone and iPod Touch iOS. However this original intention seems to be going a little askew, as Apple have chucked in a few iPad-only goodies in the new…
News
Facebook Places checks in to UK
Facebook Places, the location-sharing service launched in the US last month is now available in the UK
News
LG loses chief executive following record making losses
South Korea’s LG Electronics – the World’s third largest mobile phone supplier – has ousted its chief executive Nam Yong, blaming him for LG’s lack of sales, and is replacing him with a founding family member in a bid to turn around its loss-making mobile phone business. Following a record $103 million loss in the…