Last week saw a really important announcement on Planet iPhone - the extension of micro-payments in iPhone Apps to a well rounded product. It's an upgrade from the previous lite version and has the potential to be a real game-changer for both media owners and brands, who are both starting to flock...
HMV’s name jumped out at us during a trawl through the music headlines a week or so back. If you didn’t see it the entertainment retailer announced it would be taking advantage of empty real-estate in the recession-hit high street to open temporary pop-up stores in some of the UK’s mid-sized towns. Hats...
The new Nokia future vision video is out on YouTube of course, and shows some interesting aspects of future interaction with digital. Digitally-enabled glasses cant be that far away (though I hope they will look better than those in the video). However there are two aspects that seem to me to be out...
So Mr Dylan is apparently considering the voicing directions for your journey for two SatNav brands... this will doubtless raise eye brows of not just hardcore Dylan fans, but anyone with even the slightest sense of belief that some musicians actually stand for something - that they create music at least...
Starbucks ? Tata ? "Some Chinese or Indian tech company" - these were the results of the straw poll I conducted in the office this morning, According to Fortune BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) is the World’s fastest-growing company, apparently the Canadian firm recorded average yearly...
I have to admit that I was in a state of giddy anticipation when I got home to find that the courier had delivered a shiny new Nokia N97: It came in a under-stated black box which resembled a treat from a Regent Street boutique. It was a pleasure to unbox, as I appreciated the way it feels comfortable...
This week the mobile browser Skyfire released it's long awaited 1.0 version, for use with smartphones, taking the company out of a hugely successful beta period that has seen 1 million people downoad the free service. Skyfire is free to download at: www.get.skyfire.com The service is currently available...
‘The Year of Mobile’. Lets have a show of hands to see who has heard this phrase a few times in the past 5 years… …That’s a lot of hands. Why, then I ask, do people such as myself continue to persevere and have faith in the mobile industry? We dedicate hour upon hour reading, researching, writing; yet...
Over the last month or so, one of the biggest themes to have emerged from the industry press, blogs and smoking Twitter feeds has been the concept of 'brand utility'. To consumers / customers / punters, fans & mere mortals - that's getting benefit and / or value received from a brand...
Nokia has announced a new service now available on several of its existing phones - Nokia Point and Shoot . Although only in Beta, it seems to be going in the same direction as Google's mobile platforms on the G1 which support applications such as ShopSavvy and Wikitude, which allow images from the...
