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Usable Products Company (UPC), the New York-based consultancy which has established a reputation for its excellent research into the usability of mobile media downloads, has published the latest findinds of its ‘Key drivers’ study. According to S…
PMN & NOC announce partnership to raise awareness of user experience
PMN, the mobile market intelligence firm, and the NOC (Network for Online Commerce), the leading trade association for fixed and mobile network service providers, have agreed a partnership to raise awareness of user experience issues within the mo…
Sponsor profile: Action Engine
We’ll be introducing you to all our event partners as we build-up to the next MEX conference on 31st May and 1st June 2006. We work closely with all the participants at MEX – sponsors, speakers and delegates – to ensure they get the most from the…
Customer architecture
There’s a battle going on out there for your data. Everyone wants them – Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, not to mention countless individual start-ups. Did you really think Google was giving you 2.5 Gb of free email storage out of the goodness of its …
When a brand isn’t enough
There has been no shortage of MVNO announcements in recent weeks: MGA Entertainment launched a service based around its Bratz toy brand, Kajeet raised USD 27m to launch an MVNO aimed at ‘tweens’, Wal-mart announced its entry into the German market…
Symbian seeks to improve economic case
Symbian is to re-structure its licensing charges in an attempt to improve the economic case for using the operating system in mid-range handsets. The company is unusually transparent about its licensing regime in an industry where such fees are o…
Playing to win in the handset market
Motorola is currently enjoying the fruits of a design-led renaissance prompted by the iconic status of its RAZR line-up. RAZR products have become the handsets of choice by virtue of their eye-catching industrial design, edgy marketing and their …
The RIM experience
Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company behind the Blackberry mobile email solution, has been embroiled in an ongoing patent dispute with a small US company called NTP for some years now. The courts have repeatedly found in favour of NTP a…