Meet the speakers: Matt Hooper
Service delivery is one of the key elements of the user experience and is the theme for the opening session of Day 2 at MEX. Matt Hooper, Vice President of Marketing & Strategic Alliances at Elata, will share his views in this panel debate, bring…
Thoughts on the Nokia, Cisco rumour
There has been considerable media coverage of a report from ‘The Business’ newspaper that Cisco is considering a bid for Nokia. The Finnish manufacturer’s response: “pure fabrication.”
The rumour has bloomed quickly in the summer desert of new…
DoCoMo aiming to simplify information access
The migration of NTT DoCoMo’s customers from its 2.5G Mova network to the 3G FOMA service is well underway. There are now over 14m FOMA subscribers and Mova users are declining gradually as more and more customers make the switch. This trend is …
Multi-tasking for mid-range devices
Alain Blancquart, Chairman and CEO of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) specialist Esmertec, has published an interesting white paper discussing the potential benefits of running multiple Java applications concurrently on a mobile handset. Esmertec’s Jb…
The tools of the user experience pioneer
One of driving principles of the MEX conference is to identify the tools for delivering better mobile user experiences today, here and now. Obviously this is a mission which needs context – and MEX is designed to provide an environment for discus…
Meet the speakers: Fabio Sergio
Fabio Sergio started his career as an architect, working with both interior and exterior design projects. This evolved into a passion for resolving user experience challenges, first with consumer electronics manufacturer Whirlpool and later with …
Meet the speakers: Will Harris
I first met Will Harris when he was head of marketing at O2, having led the company’s re-branding exercise after it split from BT. Will’s career in the mobile telecoms industry goes back much further, however, to his pioneering work on the creati…
Sharp preparing new 3G handsets for Vodafone
Vodafone KK, the Japanese operator, will start selling two new 3G handsets manufactured by Sharp in August. The first, 703SH, is a lightweight, entry-level device with a 1.3 mega-pixel camera. It has a small clamshell form-factor and weighs just…