No not a seesaw in the garden, though there have been as many tipping points in mobile recently for it to resemble a seesaw However Vodafone reported a drop in SMS traffic this week and Gartner have reported that global handset sales have dropped 3.3% and service revenues in the uk off by 2.1% […]
November 14, 2012
RIM have finally announced the date of their new software, Jan 30th. with devices being available to buy in February. This is good news, because it means that we can finally see how this new OS will work in the marketplace. There are a vast number of blackberry owners who are perfectly happy with the […]
November 12, 2012
Here is the description of the session from the programme B4 Collecting Money How to get the money in! How do all the different customer payment mechanisms compare? How do I work with mobile operators? Subscriptions vs One Offs? Chris Newell, Russell Sheffield 4/10, 8pm (Thurs) This session was delivered in two parts by a couple […]
November 12, 2012
The session details from the programme are below Epics & User Stories How to break user needs and the user journey in to deliverable product “requirements”, in consumer language. Introduction to Agile/Lean/Scrum methodologies and how to best work with technical teams. From here, the design stream will move from sketching to software used for mobile development. Priya […]
November 12, 2012
We are all becoming cyborgs. Yes even you. no use denying it, I’ll explain why. you see that a cyborg is someone who has their physiological facilities enhanced by technology, and with the modern smartphone we are doing exactly this. We are improving our brain and out memory. This is because the phone, and the […]
November 9, 2012
No not golf, sorry. You’ll have heard of the Mobile SIM in a GSM phone. Well this is a special computing environment that can be trusted by the operator. The SIM s used to compute the security keys and messages needed to allow the network and the phone to authenticate each other. Well that’s all […]
November 9, 2012
I was at a talk the other day (called “Mobile Money makes the world go round”) where one of the speakers declared that Starbucks has the largest mobile payments platform in the USA. Anyway a couple of new ways to pay for your coffee without using cash have come to light, so lets have […]
November 9, 2012
[There is a lot here, so in short, take payments on your phone using a punters credit card] Izettle is a device that you can attach to your phone which can read credit card details for you. This means that you can, along with their app, take payments just using your phone, and it’s internet connection […]
November 9, 2012
[Disclosure – This tool has been bought by IBM, my employer, indeed these are notes from an internal briefing] Tealeaf provides the tools that look at the issues that app/site owners might have with an app or web site and then try to look at these problems collectively and so help the owner to fix these […]
November 5, 2012
At first sight this “SmartCall” offering from Virgin Media seems like a really good idea. Use wifi to make calls (VOIP) from anywhere, and the calls will be charged for on your Virgin Land line rates, which means for most people free, at least for other land lines) Presumably this still works if you’re […]
November 14, 2012
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