Location based services are currently being held back by network operator inactivity. With the exception of a few operators there’s no developer access to location information. This information, does in fact exist for the majority of network operators because in many countries it’s usually a legal requirement to provide it to security services as part […]

This month’s Momo London was themed "The Mobile Enterprise". Surprisingly, very few of the usual enterprise issues came up. Instead, there was much talk about the areas that might drive growth in the enterprise. 
The most interesting and entertaining talk was by Dave Birch, Director at Consult Hyperion. Dave has a great talent of trivialising dry technical information to the […]

There’s an interesting paper at New Media Edge on on device portals. In my opinion, this paper down-plays the technical problems involved with on device portals.
Firstly, many phones simply do not have the correct settings to be able to download content and access content servers. Most people will have given up before they even launch the […]

Yesterday, I came across an unexpected advert on the London Underground. It was advertising the Windows Mobile smartphone. It was unexpected because Microsoft have had a long history of very little direct consumer marketing of Windows Mobile - they have tended to expect the handset OEMs or network operators to do this. Likewise, you won’t currently find Symbian marketing it’s […]

I have spent the last two days at MEX. MEX is the PMN Mobile User Experience conference, an independent speaking programme (more than 40 speakers) championing customer-focused design and technology in the mobile industry.
 
Here are some key insights for me from the conference itself and talking with attendees…

There’s strong contention over who will eventually ‘own’ the […]