I was forwarded this internal email from Vodafone announcing the closure of their Wayfinder services. I’ve got rid of the top and bottom of the email to just focus on the guts. It makes fascinating reading for anyone looking for insight into how an operator reacts to external market pressures:
Due to the huge competitive [...]
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Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian takes a walkabout Mobile World Congress with Symbian’s Executive Director, Lee Williams.
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At Mobile World Congress, we sat down with Nokia’s Dr Tero Ojanperä, EVP of Services for Nokia, to talk about the company’s strategy with Symbian, Ovi, Maemo/MeeGo and the way ahead.
Here’s the video…
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Last night I headed over to the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre on King William Street, just down the road from the Bank of England, to the Twitter Developer event, Devnest. This was the 7th incarnation. As I walked along King William Street I looked in the window and by chance saw a [...]
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I was invited to speak at the Twitter Developer Nest event tonight by Angus Fox, one of the organisers. He asked if I’d be willing to do a ’state of the nation’ mobile applications presentation, but customise it to the audience of (desktopish) developers potentially interested in going mobile.
“Bring it on!” I [...]
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Jeff Peel posted this on MoMoLondon earlier today — I hope it might be relevant for any mobile developers focusing on government data:
My company runs the Government 2010 series of web broadcast events and on April 22nd we have an event focused on Open Data. If any MoMo members are building or have built [...]
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Would you like to see me raving about the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Android device?
Well, here I am… Rafe filmed me doing an intro to the device here:
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And for anyone who’s interested in the phone, we also got the Sony Ericsson chaps to [...]
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A tweet from Lee Williams, top man at the Symbian Foundation, pointed me to this blog post at the Wall Street Journal Online.
Ty McMahan of the WSJ quotes Jeff Smith, CEO of SonicMule (the people who make the phenomenal music app, Smule) thus:
“Nokia isn’t on the shortlist of anything we do at Smule because [...]
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