Mark 1:52 pm September 8, 2011
Last August I had what could be best described as a little temper tantrum about the state of the Android Marketplace and the dearth of quality official applications. But a year on I’m more mature (mostly) and so is the Android Marketplace.
When I last wrote on the subject I complained that big news outlets like [...]
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Tags:android, Android Marketplace, app store, Apps, Apps Market, iphone
Mark 2:41 pm August 1, 2011
Today, NXP drastically revised its 2011 NFC sales forecasts – in fact it more than halved them. This follows several months of NFC excitement in the mobile space as big players clamoured to announce their rival offerings. Haven’t we been on this NFC hype cycle before?
This summer the US operator consortium Isis – comprising AT&T, [...]
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Tags:American Express, AT&T, Citigroup, Discover, Everything Everywhere, Google, Google Wallet, iphone, MasterCard, Mobile Payments, Mobile Tickets, NFC, NXP, PayPal, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Verizon, Visa, vodafone
Mark 2:53 pm August 11, 2010
It’s not fair being an Android user. Not only are our social lives ‘less fulfilling’ than our iPhone toting friends and colleagues, we can’t get an official BBC News app. Or The Guardian. Or Time Out. Or Football Manager. These aren’t niche apps, they’re well respected news outlets and one of the world’s most popular [...]
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Tags:android, BBC, Blackberry, Football Manager, Google, iphone, Palm Pre, smartphone, The Guardian, Time Out
Nick Dillon 4:36 pm February 26, 2010
We have just about managed to catch up with ourselves after the whirlwind which was Mobile World Congress last week and have taken a few minutes to reflect on the announcements and hot topics at the show.
On a general note, despite rumors before the show that attendee numbers would be down from last year, the [...]
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Tags:android, app store, Apps, Bada, Barcelona, feature phone, femtocells, HTC, iphone, LTE, microsoft, mobile operating systems, mobile world congress, MWC, Samsung, smartphone, traffic management, Wholesale Applications Community, Windows Phone, XPERIA
Mark 4:55 pm October 2, 2009
Here at Temono we are constantly on the lookout for the next exciting trends in mobile. One thing we’ve noticed gathering a head of steam is the idea of mHealth and we fully expect it to take off in a much bigger way than Ed’s brainchild the ‘One Button Phone’ has. As the topic seems [...]
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Tags:Alive Technologies, apple, DataDyne, iphone, MedApps, mHealth, mHealth Alliance, vodafone, Withings
Nick Dillon 1:36 pm February 6, 2009
Reports last week claimed that Vodafone’s CEO Vittorio Colao is calling his handset suppliers to order, apparently with a view to reducing their number and further standardising the Vodafone “experience”, aka user interface.
Now this is nothing new - the struggle between operators and handset vendors for supremacy and mindshare of the end customer has been [...]
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Tags:app store, apple, applications, AT&T, handset, iphone, nokia, operating system, operator, OS, vodafone
Ed Howson 12:35 pm January 9, 2009
Palm today finally did something interesting, after a pretty decent hiatus, by announcing the Pre running the all new webOS. However the first paragraph of the press release gives us fair indication of how they got into their current situation; “webOS… built from the ground up to be constantly connected to the web” looks nice [...]
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Tags:apple, G1, iphone, mobile battery life, Palm, Series40, space trader, storm, webOS