In February I attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The event was well attended and seemed fairly positive for the industry. The beginning of the week was taken up with the buzz from the Microsoft and Nokia announcement but the story faded as the week went on. It was interesting to see those suppliers of … [Read more…]
RIM held an event in London for its UK debut of the Playbook. The event was being held in partnership with Adobe who was heavily pushing the Flash capabilities of the device. Alan Banks from Adobe made a brief introduction and handed over to Stephen Bates UK RIM MD. Stephen described RIM migration from being … [Read more…]
Developer Day Tyler Lessard, RIM Products and services = experiences, this is what RIM wants to promote in its products, as an example 30M people regularly use Blackberry Messenger (BBM) on a regular basis. Currently experiencing 1.5M downloads from Blackberry App World. Whilst downloads are less than ‘others’, the apps that are downloaded are stickier … [Read more…]
Samsung held a developer event for the launch of their Internet TV application store in London. Samsung have currently shipped 20M LCD televisions in Europe. Internet TV is more about services than surfing e.g. iPlayer is available direct to the TV. Internet TV was made available by the company in 2009, 2010 will see the … [Read more…]
I REALLY wanted to attend this as it was in London and manageable for me to get to (just a shame it was at Excel arrrgh). Given the 700€ price tag (WHAT!) I had used all my Nokia might and contacts prowess to get a developer ticket, it only took me two months and I … [Read more…]
I had attended last year and had a great time (OTA ’09). Some of the sessions I had attended in ’09 were being run again so I took a slant towards web based technologies. Bruce Lawson – Web Dev 2.0 (Web Evangelist at Opera) @brucel CSS3 is not available on browsers and not all devices. … [Read more…]
I had seen the launch at Mobile World Congress but to be honest had not taken much notice. The concept looked a lot like Vodafone 360 and there were no handsets to play with (not counting the six foot mockup of course). Look and Feel I was impressed by the marketing. What do Android, iPhone … [Read more…]
Microsoft hosted the event at their London offices in Victoria. As our host, Alex Reeve, Director Mobile Business Group, Microsoft gave an opening address. Opening comment “Microsoft are back in the mobile industry” Windows Phone 7 experience is based on a seamless media, contacts and calendar experience. The UI is heavily influenced by the Microsoft … [Read more…]
I had high expectations for M-Publishing via the Camerjam guys as I had enjoyed their M-Football event in January so much. Some highlights. The keynote was given by the ever charismatic Jonathan Macdonald from This Fluid World. The presentation does not do the keynote justice, you need to hear Jonathan speak to get what I mean. … [Read more…]
Some stats from Stuart Dredge Some Positives Pizza Hut – iPhone app has generated $1M in sales (pizza). Drives traffic to website to create an account etc Paper Toss – 10M+ downloads, $125K/month ad revenue, $1.25M in paid downloads WSJ – 64K active users, $17.99/mth Pandora – 30K users/day on iPhone, 25% of overall traffic … [Read more…]