January 2006
Vodafone, Sony agreement promises personalised music
Vodafone and Sony NetServices have announced an interesting agreement to deliver personalised music streams to mobile customers in Europe initially and subsequently to 20 markets worldwide. The service uses Sony technology to deliver a web radio …
Smart buys
The ‘out-of-box’ experience is often seen as the starting point for the mobile customer relationship, but in reality the journey begins long before with the purchasing process. For many customers the retail environment and economic factors, such …
Something for the weekend…
This week’s MEX newsletters prompted several interesting discussions.
Andy Tiller, CTO at Cognima, pointed me to Shozu, the consumer-facing service the company is offering to showcase Cognima’s seamless replication technology. Shozu shares pho…
The 6 faces of the web
There is an interesting discussion between Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Bill Joy, former Chief Science Officer of Sun Microsystems and now a partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, on the AlwaysO…
Speed, coverage and the user experience
There has been considerable press coverage of Samsung’s 3.6 Mbs HSDPA handset at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is a significant milestone, representing the first handset from a major manufacturer to publicly demonstrate t…
Community convergence
Definitions are notoriously difficult to pin down in the mobile industry. Take ‘convergence’, for example: in various contexts this can refer to anything from the emergence of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) networks to the ‘home zone’ pricing stra…
Surprising facts of mobile content consumption
Until recently Motorola’s software interface has been criticised by consumers and industry experts alike for its confusing layout, complex settings and the number of key presses required to perform simple tasks such as text messaging. A major Eur…