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Will Nokia’s first Windows Phones deliver?
October 27, 2011
Nokia has unveiled their first two Windows Phone powered devices, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710, running the latest version of Microsoft’s...
Apple’s iPhone 4S is an opportunity for Android and Samsung
October 04, 2011
Despite the upgrades and the new iPhone 4S released, today’s announcement is all about price positioning. The prices announced of the new iPhone4S and previous...
NFC: From rumour to reality
September 19, 2011
In April this year, I wrote a blog post about the vicious “will they or won’t they” cycle that the world of NFC technology was...
2011 is the year of mobile OS consolidation
September 08, 2011
Over the past two years every time a group of mobile developers gathered in the room, the topic of conversation often veered to fragmentation. Predominantly referring...
Smartphones are now more popular than feature phones
September 08, 2011
Western European feature phone shipments continued to decline sharply in 2Q11 as consumers increasingly move to smartphones. Feature phone shipments were down 29% to 20.4 million...
The Chromebook is one of Google’s best kept secrets
August 19, 2011
In 2008 Google introduced Android, an operating system for smartphones. Three years later, Gartner estimates Android runs on 43% of the smartphones sold. In June...
The 6 most common misconceptions in the mobile market
July 25, 2011
In the fast paced mobile industry, many people have begun to hail native apps as the only way to ensure security, because you have more...
Fraudsters are two steps ahead in the mobile malware wars
July 11, 2011
Bad news: Fraudsters have all the tools they need to effectively turn mobile malware into the biggest customer security problem we’ve ever seen. They are...
Mobile payments hit UK high streets, challenges retailers face with mobile wallets
May 23, 2011
Orange and Barclaycard have launched ‘Quick Tap’, the UK’s first contactless mobile payment service which allows consumers to make purchases on the high street using...
Appetite for smartphones is causing a mobile management headache
April 27, 2011
When the devices we now call ‘smartphones’ started to appear in the late 1990s, they seemed to be deliberately positioned as distant from the PDAs...
Mobile platforms must not repeat the security failings of PCs
March 08, 2011
I can still remember my breathless excitement the first time I heard the executives of a major AV vendor tell me about the promise of...
Microsoft and Nokia partnership is a good thing
February 15, 2011
If you haven’t heard yet, On Friday Feb 11th the two companies announced a partnership. Nokia is to roll out their phones with Windows Phone...
App Market Not Just A Two Horse Race
November 19, 2010
While the majority of press debate may be about the longevity of Android Apps over iPhone Apps, Nokia have revealed they are still in game...
Twitter For Conference Interactivity
July 08, 2010
Have you been to a conference recently where Twitter was used to create more interactivity? I’ve been to a few. It’s easy to do...
Mobile Wars 1: Cross Platform Mobile
February 18, 2010
The world has gone mobile. Workers are logging-on to the corporate network through handheld devices and finalising business deals on the move. Everything...
