Squace - Is it a game changer?

Rating: Missed Opportunity.
I was pleased to receive my handset, the Sony Ericsson W910i with Squace pre-installed on it as I had been excited by the press blurb. Thanks to Randeep Gill @ Sherpa Media for sorting this.We Say: Just as I received my handset, my esteemed colleague Tony Dennis was also testing Squace, unbeknown to [...]

Squace UI seriously disappoints

Rating: Photographic memory needed to navigate this one

When I saw the Press blurb (see previous story) on the new mobile UI from Squace, I thought this is exactly what the industry needs. Having tested it, I’ve discovered that it’s a complete flop. It will never fly.

The idea behind Squace is great. Mobile phone users shouldn’t have [...]

SD Cards deliver DRM movies, music and data to mobile phones

UK company Calton Hill have announced that they have developed mobile phone and memory card software that will allow the end user to watch a movie or listen to music stored on an SD card whilst allowing the copyright holder full DRM protection.

Calton Hill’s SecureSharing solution is the first commercial usage of GlobalPlatform device technology [...]

Android vs LiMo.

Rating: Does there have to be a winner?
I mentioned LiMo’s expanding roster of companies involved in the development of the LiMo foundation the other day. When I saw Greg Kumparak’s interesting article over at Mobilecrunch in which he gives an relatively tech free explanation of the difference between the two Linux based platforms, I thought [...]

Sony Ericsson Enter Into Master License Agreement with Acrodea

Rating: U I Me
Sony Ericsson has a agreed a deal with the Tokyo Middleware company Acrodea, for a worldwide deal to install VIVID UI and VIVID Panorama into their handsets.
They Say: VIVID UI is a innovative middleware that can integrate various types of multimedia content, such as still pictures, 3D graphics, animation effects, and video. [...]

Near-field payments and ticketing via the SIM offered by the True Corporation.

Rating: Freaking cool!!!!!!!
Thailand’s mobile users will be able, from Friday, to sign up to to the latest technology offering users proximity services for payment and ticketing.
Mobile technology and service companies have been talking about services like this for some time. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigebee and even GPS have been touted as solutions but TrueMove, the mobile [...]

dotmobi buys Mowser

Yesterday I bumped into the lovely James Pearce CTO of dotmobi and I quizzed him on the big news. I asked him - what is the big news you have been twittering about.
Then I guessed “find.mobi has been sold”. If you know James - he gave me one of his smiles but said no more. [...]

iPhone: most popular device to surf the web but do we need a two tier approach?

Rating: Mobile Web v Broadband Web
They Say: Lightspeed - The Venture Partners quote the NY Times that over Christmas 2007, Google got more traffic from iPhones than from any other type of phone
but this flurry of increasing mobile device could lead onto a head on collision according to the author of the Lightspeed piece - [...]

Novarra – oops I did it again

Oh dear. I took another look at Novarra recently and was actually very pleased with the results. But then I read interviews like this one and think – my God Novarra you are arrogant.

I have been speaking to a bloke called Luca Passani recently. He was introduced to me in by David Harper from [...]

Enterprise Performance Management for the iPhone from ActiveStrategy.

Rating: The iPhone gets all grown up!
With the upcoming release of the new OS for the iPhone, which promises amongst other things the ability to sync to a Microsoft Exchange server 2003/2007, Apple seem keen to head straight into the business market and up against the doyen of the business brigade, the Blackberry and the [...]

ODP specialist, Action Engine, updates its SDP

On-device portal (ODP) specialist, Action Engine, has released the latest version of its SDK [Software Development Kit]. The company argues that version 5.0 makes it easy to develop applications for a wide range of mobile phones.The list of supported devices currently includes Java, Qualcomm’s BREW, Windows Mobile and RIM Blackberry devices.
So there’s no support for [...]

Manchester United Football Club, Visual Mobile Search and O2’s Mike Short

I had an excellent chat with Mike Dunphy Mobile Guru of football club Manchester Unitedat the Mobile Marketing Forum. Then we had a drink together again in the evening and I took a short video with him. Unfortunately, it’s not brilliant and he only gets to say his name. The second video was with O2’s Mike [...]

Chat with Doug Richard TruTap - scared? You will be!

Doug Richard is so direct that he nearly scared me senseless today. Luckily he didn’t and I am here to tell the TruTap story!
What happened?

Well, first of all - I was all excited about meeting him and seeing the offices. To my surprise the offices were really small and open plan and up to 35 [...]

TerraNet breaks the numeracy barrier

Rating: UI to aid third world sales
The perceived wisdom is that you can’t sell a mobile phone to those with no numeracy sales. Yet Sweden’s TerraNet has just devised a handset interface where numeracy isn’t a requirement.

The UI is simplicity itself, requiring only three buttons to govern the complete control of the handset. However, it’s [...]

GoMo News on Wheels! - InfoGin - Eran Wyler

This is part 2 remember to view all the posts at http://www.flixwagon.com/ctia/
<blockquote>Featured above Eran Wyler, CEO Infogin.  The recipient of numerous awards for technological excellence, Mr. Wyler has over eighteen years of experience in designing and developing state-of-the-art hardware and software solutions for leading Israeli high-tech companies. Prior to establishing InfoGin, Mr. Wyler served as [...]

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