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Steve Balmer's prediction on dinosaur paper publishers in the next 10 years
I was fascinated by Steve Balmers interview in the Washington Post this week. The core quotation for me was
"Here are the premises I have. Number one, there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network....
One Internet - 2 mobile worlds
I've been looking at the Morgan Standley Internet Trends report . Its an excellent report which charters the growth of the fixed and mobile Internets. One thing that has interested me for some time is that I've noticed that there are two worlds for the Mobile...
World "everyone connected day" 11th June 2012?
Perhaps someone can help. I've setup a site at http://phonecount.com which has dynamic counters showing the world population and the number of connected phones at this moment in time. Given the current rates of increase of both I work out when the total number of...
Mobile Web Search is not working very well
Mobile search is poor - it produces inconsistent results and can often fail to tell the difference between mobile and fixed sites. This article details the failings...
Let's start with a few of definitions. The Mobile Internet is the...
The iPhone Inconsistency
I've just spent most of the day watching all the iPhone videos at Apple developer site. All very interesting and informative. Some of the new Safari features such as CCS transformations, CSS animations and the local data SQL support from Javascript (sort of Google...
Web Apps vs Mobile Apps - the debates begins!
I was very interested to read Michael Mace's latest blog about the death of mobile apps , and Carlo Longino's similar blog also taking about the death of mobile native apps .
Michael Mace shows this graph on his blog
We had this debate a year ago in our...
Post to Myspace - a bit limited
I read with interest the Mashable article explaining how to share content on MySpace from your own site, so I tried it.
Unfortunately it is very limited. It does allow HTML to be posted but that HTML is altered before it is displayed making it almost...
Affordable data whilst roaming
Just returned from Barcelona where thanks to a post on MoMo London we bought some Yoigo SIMs, where the charge is only 1.3 Euros per day for unlimited 3G data. The network did completely crash for an hour on Monday but for the rest of the time it worked a treat and we were able to demo...
Looking back to look forward
I've been inspired to write this blog by an article by Tim O'Reilly in the New York Times recently .
Basically he was likening the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981 and the openness in software development it spawned to today's open movements in Mobile.
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Mobile Internet Growth Map
I was looking at the Internet World Map and immediately wondered if the Mobile Internet is different.
We have the data- even better is that with Google Analytics running against our webserver we can make a video of how the growth of our service of Mobile Internet world has grown over...
Size does matter!
My previous article " Nokia comes out top " generated a lot of interest, because it implied Nokia handsets created the best user experience but did not explain why. The UK's premiere online technology news site, TheRegister analysed the article and said...
Top 20 Countries Downloading Mobile Applications - big surprises!!
When I did this analysis I was really surprised - I could not believe it was right! The countries seem so random - is it statistically significant? Read on and make up your own mind.
I took 120,000 mobile phone download log entries from our EyeMags mobile wap site...
Nokia comes out on Top
It was wondering how I could unashamedly promote our new product on this blog and even if it were allowed. Then I discovered we actually had some interesting data coming out of it and that Nokia came out looking very good. So I think I can do it and also show some very interesting...
Three Champs Meet at 3GSM
3GSM is where the virtual Nokia community meets the real world. 3 Forum Nokia Champions, (in the picture left to right) myself, Alessandro ( biskero.org - he has one of the best blogs available) and the world's best Flash-Lite developer, David Mannl ( flash-lite.de ) met at Mobile...
Picocells - the next big thing??
Last week Emirates airline announced from the new year it would be allowing its customers to use their mobiles in flight for voice calls, internet surfing and e-mail. The technology from AeroMobile uses a picocell (short range GSM base station) on the airplane and a satellite...
Author Profile
Robin is co-founder of RefreshMobile Ltd which was Forum Nokia developer of the year for 2006/7. Refresh has developed a number of innovative products including Mobizines (a client providing magazines on phones), Eyemags (user generated magazines on phones) and most recently Mippin (which mobilises the web for Mobile in the browser). See this blog on your mobile at http://mippin.com/forumnokia
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- World "everyone connected day" 11th June 2012?
- Mobile Web Search is not working very well
- The iPhone Inconsistency
- Web Apps vs Mobile Apps - the debates begins!
- Post to Myspace - a bit limited
- Affordable data whilst roaming
- Looking back to look forward
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