Alloy, Digital Airways in UI partnership

Industrial design consultancy Alloy is working in partnership with UI platform provider Digital Airways to develop interfaces for its concept products. Alloy takes a customer-led approach to product design, involving real users in the design proc…

Stat Spot: Japanese blogging

55.4%

…of Japanese bloggers surveyed by Technorati and Edelman have never been contacted by the companies they’re blogging about, suggesting their PR representatives need to do more to keep the press up-to-date with developments. This will b…

Something for the weekend…

Streaming football (sorry, not soccer)

US customers of MVNO Mobile ESPN will soon be able to enjoy college football games streamed to their handsets. The service is priced at USD 25 per month as part of ESPN’s ‘Total Sports’ package. The MVNO…

Handset subsidies may be counter-productive

I was intrigued by the data M:Metrics provided for our recent Stat Spot: according to a survey of some 33,000 US mobile phone users, those who received their handset free of charge were the least satisfied with their ‘purchase’. Is this merely a …

Stat Spot: Satisfaction relative to handset price

$300

Customers in the US paying more than USD 300 for their handset are the most likely to be satisfied with their purchase according to data from M:Metrics. PMN asked M:Metrics to rank handset satisfaction on a 10 point scale according to the…

Smarter music search

Telefonica Moviles is working with Musiwave, the mobile music specialist owned by Openwave, to launch an artist-based content service in Spain. Users will have ‘one click’ access to full track downloads, wallpapers, video tones and ringback tones…

Interview: Dave Evans, SurfKitchen

Dave Evans is CTO at SurfKitchen, provider of on-device portals for operators such as Orange, TIM and Telefonica. He joined SurfKitchen from network operator O2, where he was Vice President of Product Platform and Architecture.

Marek Pawlowski…

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