When I started working in mobile back in the late 90’s the industry was always looking to the Japanese and the Scandinavians in an attempt to predict the next big thing. On the face of it, this made plenty of sense as it was in these countries that the first mobile services had launched and [...]

Well, it’s been a week and the dust has pretty much settled on this year’s Mobile World Congress. The collective mobile industry is now back in the office working through their Jamon withdrawl symptoms and sorting out new credit cards/laptops/mobile phones (delete as appropriate). Having not experienced the crime first hand in previous years, ironically [...]

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 [...]

Exciting news from Nokia, sadly they haven’t announced a flying car, or indeed a machine that instantly washes and dresses you each morning, however the company unveiled a Smart Home Platform designed to allow people to monitor and control their home via mobiles and PCs.
The Jetsons aside, in the non-cartoon world the concept is nothing [...]