July 2005
From the chipset upwards
Qualcomm announced yesterday that it was sampling its most advanced chipset to-date, the dual-CPU MSM7500. This integrated chipset platform uses both an ARM 9 processor (for the modem) and an ARM 11 (applications processor) to support a range of …
Mike Kent to speak at MEX
Mike Kent, Vice President, EMEA at Action Engine will speak on day 2 of MEX in the session entitled: ‘Media opportunities, MVNO partnerships and alternative business models.’ Action Engine provides a client server mobile application platform focu…
Location dependent or location irrelevant?
Vodafone today announced it would launch a service in Germany providing 1000 minutes of call time for a flat-rate of EUR 20 per month. The catch? The calls must be made within the subscriber’s home zone – an area about 2 Km in diameter, centred …
CKS founder to speak at MEX
We’re pleased to announce Aditya Dev Sood, founder and CEO of CKS, will be speaking at MEX. CKS is a user research and technology design company working in emerging economies around the world. Aditya graduated summa cum laude from the University …
UN seeks action on environmentally friendly disposal of handsets
This Reuters piece highlights the UN’s work to broker an agreement on environmentally-friendly disposal of mobile handsets.
This ‘final stage’ of the user experience, i.e. disposing of the product, is becoming increasingly important as develope…
Welcome to MEX
Welcome to MEX – the PMN Mobile User Experience conference.
Hosting an event on such an ephemeral subject as ‘user experience’ presents a challenge for everyone involved. We soon realised that one of our primary objectives would be to define w…