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First look at the new Vodafone Sure Signal

Update January 2010: Vodafone has updated their marketing name for this product and it is now called Vodafone Sure Signal. They have started to heavily promote it around London on the tube and in other outdoor locations. This post was first published in July 2009 just after it launched. Since then it has pretty much [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 12, 2009 in femtocell | Tagged 3g signal, access gateway, BT home hub settings, connection help, dean bubley, distruptive wireless, early adoptor, femto, femto cell, femto forum, femto sell, femtocell, femtosell, first commercial femtocell, hand in, hand out, home 3G cell, home base station, home tariff, hsdpa, improved 3G coverage, indoor coverage, innovator, IP address, IP port forwarding, mobile phone booster, mobile phone signal booster, port forwarding, setup access gateway, signal booster, sure signal, suresignal, VAG, Vodafone access gateway, Vodafone gateway, Vodafone sure signal, Vodafone suresignal, WCDMA | Comments (47)

Carnival of the Mobilists 181 is at London Calling

This week the carnival comes to you from a city that has just hosted one of the word’s most famous sporting carnivals – the Wimbledon championships. Last time we hosted the Carnival, it was the G20 that focused the eyes of the world on dear old London. As we all know by now, Roger Federer [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 5, 2009 in carnival | Tagged Augmented Reality, carnical of the mobilists, carnival, cotm, IBM, mobile, mobile evangelist, mobile web, mobity, sporting apps, tennos, thought leadership, twitter, twitter book, twitter business, twitter case studies, Wimbledon | Comments (7)

Access to global, open and transparent funding now a reality for tech startups

I received this interesting piece of news from Jouko Ahvenainen who apart from being one of the founders of Xtract is also the Chairman in Grow VC, the pioneer of a new funding models for start-ups. They launched an invitation-only beta last Tuesday, and is aimed at mobile and web start-ups. Jouko tells me that [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 5, 2009 in venture capital | Tagged capital, funding for start-ups, fundraising, Grow VC, growvc, Jouko Ahvenainen, mobile startup, simple funding models, start up, stratup, transparent funding, VCmventure capital, venture capital 2.0, Xtract | Comments (3)

IBM serves up an ace @Wimbledon

On Saturday 4th July, I visited the Wimbledon Championships as a guest of IBM, in relation to a book I am writing on the business use of twitter (more on this in an upcoming post). IBM, in conjunction with their advertising Agency Ogilvy has served up three brilliant applications for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. You [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 5, 2009 in mobile, twitter | Tagged @centre_court, AELTC, Alan Flack, All English Lawn Tennis CLub, android, app store, AR, Augmented Reality, Brendon Riley, compass phone, google g1, gps, IBM, IBM Seer, IBM UK, iphone, Layar, lbs, location, Mobilizy, ogilvy, Ogilvy UK, Pat Cash, smarter Wimbledon, tennis, The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, The Championships, twitter, wikitude, Wimbledon, Wimbledon iPhone app | Comments (10)

A snapshot of Mobile Marketing in the UK

Yesterday in the Times Newspaper a great 16 page supplement from Raconteur Media was included on mobile marketing – with great quotes from a number of leading companies and figures from the UK mobile marketing scene – including a number of MMA members. You can download the PDF or browse the document online. Either way – [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 2, 2009 in advertising | Tagged mma, mobile advertising, mobile marketign association, mobile marketing, mobile marketing tips, mobile marketing UK, Raconteur, raconteur media, the times, uk mobile | Comments (6)

Adfonic launches mobile ad marketplace to rival AdMob

I have been watching the Adfonic guys with interest since I met them in London prior to Mobile World Congress. I saw Paul and Wes last night at a function pre-launch and I asked them who they saw their major competitors were. “Admob” was the answer. I’m happy to give them some promotion below and [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 1, 2009 in advertising | Tagged ad platform, adfonic, admob, agencies, brands, mobile, mobile ad platform, mobile advertising, Paul Childs, Victor Malachard, Wesley Biggs | Comments (5)