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NFC Payments – chance for the roadblock to be cleared

February 20, 2014

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I try not to just comment on rolling news about mobile, as there are so many more people who do this, and do it full time.  However sometimes an important event occurs that makes me sit up and think.  Here is one. Using your mobile phone to pay for things at a point of sale […]

M2M – the need for roaming and international SIMS

February 19, 2014

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M2M or Machine to Machine, or Internet of Things, or the instrumented world.   OK bored now. M2M has a problem that needs to be addressed and it is good to see that T-Mobile USA are trying to fix it with a new tariff. You see the thing with M2M is that they are SIMs […]

Mobile and addiction

February 19, 2014

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I saw this article from Mobile Youth *(well a post advertising a report,  but hey they have to spread the word somehow) and I agree with the findings,  however I have a slightly different take, and would like to set some context (at least from my point of view, as someone who’s youth blossomed long […]

Adaptive optimisation and stressful situations eg 3ES staff

February 8, 2014

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In my last post I considered those apps that replace the main home screen of your phone with something that will change the apps etc on display based on the home screens understanding of your behaviour.  this should be brilliant,  what you want and need are right there, just as you require them.  As I […]

Making decisions to optimize a UX (mobile or web)

February 6, 2014

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 One of the issues that has been a bone of contention for as long as web sites have been created (and indeed in software interfaces for years before that) is deciding the best layout, style and functional precedence for your site/app. It’s not easy because so often is is a case of personal preferences and […]

Context Sensitive home screens really starting to deliver

February 4, 2014

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  I read this on the Verge and I though about how for the last 10 years the mobile phone UX people have been trying to solve this conundrum. So it would seem that the world is waking up to the fact that the home screen on a phone does not need to be static.I’ll not […]