August 2005
Maxim expands mobile business with Mowave
Maxim, the popular men’s magazine and part of Felix Dennis’ publishing empire, is expanding its mobile offerings in partnership with Mowave. The mobile developer has helped Dennis launch Maxim Mobile in 20 different countries and 10 different lan…
Meet the speakers: Juha Christensen
Juha needs little introduction for most people in the mobile industry. He was one of the early employees at Psion Software and a founder of the Symbian venture which grew out of that business. After serving on Symbian’s board, he went on to lead…
Research and Design for Emerging Economies
Technology companies training their eyes on the growing mass of consumers and businesses in emerging economy regions are faced with the challenge of catering to diverse customers in unexpected environments. Bringing technology to underserved a…
Meet the speakers: Gus Desbarats
Gus spent the early part of his career as an automotive designer for some of Europe’s leading car manufacturers. Today he leads the award-winning Alloy Total Product Design company, applying a user-centred approach to the design of everything fro…
Building a new navigation experience
The concept of expanding the power of a network through peer-to-peer (P2P) interactions has been applied in numerous areas – file sharing, mesh wireless coverage and messaging to name just a few. A company called Mexens is now using this techniqu…
Is the browser the only truly mass market platform?
In response to yesterday’s article on the use of Java by application developers targeting mass market opportunities, Kevin Perkins – CEO of Greenlight Wireless – contacted me with information on his company’s Skweezer service.
Kevin believes th…
To 4G or not 4G, that is not the question!
Received from Mike Short, Chairman of the Mobile Data Association, in response to yesterday’s article ‘4th generation future’:
To 4G or not 4G, that is not the question!
To adapt William Shakespeare may …
4th generation future
With 3G only just starting to tip the balance of mass adoption in developed markets, talk of the next generation of mobile networks – inevitably referred to as 4G – may seem a little premature. However, major adoption cycles like the introduction…