Nothing about mobile really, but I thought I’d tap into your collective wisdom and see if anyone answer this. Occasionally, you get an email, followed by another shortly afterwards as someone has an oh-my-god-did-I-really-press-send moment. The follow-up one says that: Yada Yada would like to recall the message, “All you need to know about avoiding [...]
Archive | September, 2007
Is the Mobile a Personal Medium?
One of the mantras trotted out by all and sundry is that the mobile represents a great marketing medium “because it’s so personal” or is even “the most personal medium ever”. It’s become such a frequent statement that no one really questions its validity. Indeed, it’s become true through repetition – a sort of affirmation [...]
Repeat After Me…
… successful content providers don’t equal successful mobile operators. Think Disney understands this yet? Or is it going to take yet another MVNO failure for them to get it? —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
No Wonder Novarra Is Mucking Things Up So Badly
The discussion about how Vodafone UK is using Novarra’s transcoding technology to break the mobile web rolls on, but kudos to Tom Hume for spotting this gem from somebody at Novarra in an email to a W3C list: A well-designed content transformation server can do a better job of following the mobile best practices than [...]
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Carnival of the Mobilists #92
Check out this week’s best writing about mobile at Abhishek Tiwari’s blog, with entries ranging from those highlighting the continuing boom in sms revenues (now at $100 billion) to a round up of the very latest business models in mobile. Go and check it out. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Apple Issues A Not-So-Veiled Threat About Unlocking the iPhone
Apple’s been silent to this point on how it feels about people unlocking the iPhone (as I did) so they can use it with the operator of their choice, rather than the operators the company inked exclusive deals with. But no longer: Apple says unlocking programs could break users’ devices when iPhone software updates are [...]
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Vodafone UK’s Transcoding Is Still Breaking The Mobile Web
Back in June, I pointed how Vodafone UK’s newly launched “improvements” to the mobile web experience for its customers included using a transcoding system from Novarra that undoes the hard work of developers and publishers that have bothered to create mobile-specific sites that use autodetection. Instead of passing through the correct user agent from a [...]
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Technology and Regime Change
I’ve been pondering for a while the consequences of regime change and modern technology. In other words, what would happen if today’s technology tools were available to an extremist government? If you re-read Orwell’s 1984, all the surveillance and monitoring techniques are already deployed and more – even he didn’t envisage a scenario where all [...]
iPhone Operators Try Some Doublespeak Of Their Own
Following yesterday’s dissection of the Reality Distortion Field, UK edition, it would appear that El Jobso is rubbing off on operators selling the iPhone. It was confirmed today that T-Mobile would offer the device in Germany, and the company’s press release did a most excellent job of trying to cover up the iPhone’s shortcomings in [...]
Retarded Iteration
Chatting with Keiran from Reporo(who are going great guns, I’m pleased to report) last night at the Mobile Entertainment Awards (AdMob won again – yay!) I managed to articulate a thought that’s been nagging at me for some time, specifically about mobile applications. It might be obvious to some, but I haven’t actually heard it [...]
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