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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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Facebook Places checks in to UK
Facebook Places, the location-sharing service launched in the US last month is now available in the UK
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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…
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Intuit and Nokia create a small business alliance
Intuit and Nokia have announced an alliance to develop and deliver an innovative new mobile and web based marketing service for small businesses around the world. Addressing one of the main concerns for the world’s estimated 500 million small businesses, the new service will be designed to help them get more business through personalised, relevant…
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RIM losing out to the iPhone
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, however things don’t look so good for next quarter revenues as it fails to add as many subscribers as it expected. RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45%…
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The web is still no faster than a pigeon
This story is not strictly Mobile or Business but it is mobile broadband – in a way – and it amused us greatly, and we know how they feel, sometimes our mobile broadband is so slow you’d have thought it was going via carrier pigeon. A South African business Unlimited IT based in Durban decided…
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comScore – Android sees significant growth in US
comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…
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WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
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Apple iOS 4.2 beta released to developers
The beta version of Apple’s iOS 4.2 has been released to developers At the last Apple press conference, Steve Jobs said that iPhone iOS 4.2 would arrive in November, but it seems quite a long lead time from Beta to final version so we suspect that it might be launched a little earlier. The focus…
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Corrie Nation – ITV bases social networking game on Coronation Street
Game will launch on Facebook and ITV.com on 1 November – a month before soap celebrates its 50th birthday
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Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 finalists
Vodafone has announced the four finalists of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 competition and you’ve now got until September 24 to vote for finalist that you think should be the winner. The annual competition is designed to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. The four finalists represent companies working on field-worker…
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Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
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Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
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Tesco creating an Android grocery app
In an amusing post on his blog Tesco’s head of R&D Nick Lansley has promised users that Tesco will be producing an Android app and providing a barcode update to their current iPhone app. Lansley quotes a post from reader B0lty on his site: Why haven’t you included a barcode scanner? More like why haven’t…
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Ofcom to test mobile broadband speeds
The UK telecom regulator, Ofcom has decided to compile its own mobile broadband coverage data maps and has contracted an outside company, Epitiro to analyse the performance of the networks. Ofcom has previously relied on operator provided statistics when compiling its coverage maps, but after the findings in the recently published Communications Market Report which…
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the power of the mobile phone
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at Nokia World conference and as you would expect from the man who invented the web he had a few pithy things to say about the future of the web, and the importance of mobile to that future. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has always been an advocate of information freedom. It…