Nokia to launch Ovi Store. Bored Now.
Robin Wauters of Techcrunch writes: At the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has unveiled its initiative to try and repeat the runaway succes of Apple’s App Store with its own mobile...
View ArticleAppStore Wars starting to heat up…
Today the Ovi App Store goes live. (at the time I’m writing this, the web site is down – was up earlier, but is down now…) More than 50 Nokia devices are compatible with the service from day one, with...
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After not travelling long-distance for around 15 years, I found myself in San Francisco twice this year. San Francisco has many similarities to Belfast – a plethora of neighbourhoods, a strong history...
View ArticleCoolest Brand: iPhone. And soon on Orange and Voda.
Hot on the tail of Orange announcing they have secured the iPhone onto their network, Vodafone have also announced they’ll be joining the Apple tsunami. Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive, has...
View ArticleThe N97 lie
MobileInc tears into the N97 – one of the Symbian smartphones which every Nokiabot was harping on about. It succeeded the N96 which was meant to best the venerable N95 except that they shipped it with...
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Here Be Morons
Kevin Tofel at GigaOm reports on a curious trend. U.S. owners of Symbian-based handsets click 2.7 times more mobile ads than those with iPhones, according to April data due to be released by mobile ad...
View ArticleApple is not the dominant player in any market that matters
How significant is Apple to the mobile market? Mobile Review writes: Before the Digital Agenda anti-competitive investigations centred on companies with dominant market positions, this initiative would...
View ArticleNokia: the plan before 2012
Mikael Ricknäs of Infoworld has an opinion on what Nokia must do to remain relevant in mobile. Nokia was getting complacent and its first mistake was not taking the iPhone and Android seriously early...
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iPhone vs Android: software lock-in and halo effect
From CNNMoney.com 77% of iPhone owners say they’ll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they’ll buy another Android phone. I’ll address these as the result of two separate...
View ArticleePubs and iBooks and whether we care about the EULA.
I took a couple of days to digest the iBooks Author news – to see what the fuss was about and form my own opinions in a timely fashion. I even took time to hoover in all of the opinion on the industry...
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