Opinions, ideas and new thinking

DoCoMo keeps customers switched-on

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo is pioneering new ways of re-charging mobile handsets. It unveilved a methanol-based fuel cell prototype on…

20 years ago

Vodafone to launch Palm’s Microsoft smartphone

Vodafone has announced it will launch the Windows Mobile version of the Palm Treo smartphone on its 3G network later…

20 years ago

Net negative – the mobile World Cup experience

The 2006 World Cup in Germany was seen for a long time as a potential watershed for mobile data usage…

20 years ago

Tilting design

Mobiface has a piece on a Japanese handset with a tilt-sensor. There have already been several examples of this technology…

20 years ago

HTC comes full circle on brand ambitions

HTC, the Taiwanese handset vendor, is best known for the Windows Mobile devices it manufacturers on behalf of network operators,…

20 years ago

Valuable customer experience lessons learned elsewhere

Here is a quote from Mark Hurst at Creative Good, a New York-based customer experience consultancy. It is extracted from…

20 years ago

Reaching out for touch-screens

Strategy Analytics has released a report predicting 40 percent of handsets sold in 2012 will incorporate touch-screen technology. The firm…

20 years ago

Wrap-up

At the conclusion of the conference, I chose three words to encapsulate the discussions which had emerged from two days…

20 years ago