03 Sep 2007
| by Hugh Griffiths, director of mobile at Microsoft
the next two or three years, as more consumers are able to access email on their mobile device....per cent of
all mobile users within the UK sending or receiving texts. So text is clearly here ...
are shown a useful new experience on
their mobiles they will use it, particularly if it is interoperable ...
will
see sharp increases in IM and mobile email over the next 12 months and
far more of our traditional web ...
09 Jul 2007
| by Hugh Griffiths, director of mobile, MSN Email:hughg@microsoft.com
"The internet is mobile" - so states the Vodafone strapline for a recent campaign involving a...Research over the past three years has pointed consistently to the same issues with mobile data ...
mobile internet services in the UK, those who are not regulars are looking for a compelling reason to use ...
be more than sufficient for most mobile surfers. Meanwhile, on the services front, Vodafone has tackled ...
01 Nov 2007
| by Hugh Griffiths, director of mobile, Microsoft OSG Email:Hughg@microsoft.com
As the newspapers splashed the news that Brian had won the longest Big Brother competition in the UK a few weeks ago, my mind was cast back to five years ago with the launch of Big Brother 3, when text voting burst on to our screens as a simple and easy way to evict your least favourite housemate.
04 Sep 2003
| by Charlotte Goddard
As broadcasters use mobile to make their programmes more interactive, so mobile firms are launching..., TV is cosying up to another medium: mobile. Firms such as Flytxt and 12snap have found a ready clientele among broadcasters, providing mobile apps to boost programme interactivity.
12snap has provided ...
to TV channel Five last year. Some mobile providers have gone further and launched their own TV channels ...
10 Jul 2002
| by RICHARD VINCENT, managing director of mobile messaging company
Smartfusion
Mobile operators and content providers will need to work together
if next-generation phones...As the adoption of next-generation mobile devices stretches ...
consumers will want to use data services. They
will indicate whether mobile operators can be successful in recouping
some of the money they spent on 3G licences. But if the mobile operators
cannot co ...
02 Oct 2002
| by ROBERT HAMILTON, chief strategy officer at Scan Mobile
I was recently a victim of credit-card fraud. Nothing to do with the web or mobile phones, just
07 Aug 2002
| by ROBERT HAMILTON, chief strategy officer at Scan Mobile
. But it wasn't
really a combined device. It was a Casio PDA that connected to a Siemens
mobile phone with a...one for every day of the week,
it still wouldn't have amounted to many sales. Now, as T-Mobile's enormous baby looms large on 48-sheet posters across
the land, UK mobile network operators have announced ...
it to a
friend - and soon. And if you need to justify spending cash on a flash new mobile with
built ...
13 Nov 2002
| by ROBERT HAMILTON, chief strategy officer at Scan Mobile
as two years", all these wonderful things will be made available via mobile phone, too.
Yes folks ...
01 Dec 2003
| by Simon Clarke
From clothes that hug you in response to a text to location-based mobile games, there are some...to access the internet, but mobile companies have had an in-built advantage - the ubiquity and acceptance of mobile handsets.
SMS is a key ingredient of many success stories. But while sending text messages is so ...
with you, it can be a bit solitary. Now multiplayer games are hitting mobile devices through companies like ...
06 Dec 2005
Since it took off in Japan six years ago, NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service
has been the mobile internet ...
development at
mobile marketing company Flytxt. "I found it was much quicker and easier
to use." WAP ...
-mode is considered an
advance. "A lot of people say it's like an ecosystem," says Gunnar Larson,
director of mobile ...
