Vodafone has declared Britain the “most digitally advanced” country in Europe according to an article in the Telegraph. Vittorio Colao, chief executive, said Britain’s “digital citizens” are much more up to date with the latest technology than mainland Europeans. Vodafone said 70pc of new customers signing up for a contract in the UK demand a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 4, 2011
in mobile internet
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Tagged daily telegraoh, facebook, foursquare, infinite, mobile broadband, mobile social, mobile social telstra, myspace, networking, one plan, rupert neate, social networks, telegraph, three, twitter, Vittorio Colao, vodafone
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If you have not read my recent post – is twitter a serious business tool or just a complete waste of time, then you may not know the answer. Suffice to say, those that hold the former view are having an inaugural “Eat’n’tweet” this Thursday 3rd July at 1pm at The Couch 97 Dean Street, [...]
I read with interest in the Financial Times on Wednesday that Linkedin.com, the business networking site is now valued at more than $1Bn following some recent investment from Bain Capital. The article contrasts the $15bn valuation for Facebook implied by a Microsoft investment of $240m last year and the $580m News Corp paid for the parent company [...]
The article in the Times states “Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.” The service is apparently coming to the UK soon, from US company [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 1, 2008
in applications, location, mobile, privacy
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Tagged facebook, lbs, liberty, location, media, networking, online, sniff, social, times, tracking
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at Jamie Well’s excellent Mobilestance website. Here you can read the freshest posts from around the mobile world about everything from games, website design, QR codes, how mobile social network meets crowd powered media right through to the case for banning mobiles in schools. Head on [...]
When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 30, 2008
in social networking
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Tagged fireeagle, geotag, go, google, gps, gypsii, jaiku, locatik, location, locr, Loki, mobile, networking, Nokia, presence, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook, social, wireless, yahoo, zonetag
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I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand. Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2008
in blogs, media, social networking
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Tagged BA, bbc, crowd, flickr, heathrow, journalist, media, mobile, networking, news, nowpublic, powered, reporter, ShoZu, sky, social
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Over at Gigaom, a story about SiRF Technologies laying off workers has started a discussion around “the end of the GPS party”. Read the full article here Quoting from Gigaom “SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 25, 2008
in location, mobile
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Tagged eagle, fire, google, gps, location, mobile, navigation, networking, pnd, sirf, social, yahoo
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With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as m.facebook.com m.linkedin.com m.twitter.com m.youtube.com m.myspace.com (ps notice a pattern here – no .mobi extension for these major sites – does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner) ..it got me thinking about the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 23, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, media, mobile, social networking
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Tagged cellID, facebook, gps, lbs, location, Loki, mobile, networking, social, WiFi
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Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week. In another week in mobile where there has been much [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged apple, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, data, developers, ecosystem, iphone, messaging, mobilists, mobility, network, networking, Nokia, sdk, sip, social, statistics, voip, wireless
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Recently I attended the Financial Times World Telecoms Conference in London. Upon registration, I picked up my delegate badge and was ushered towards an interesting machine that contained a camera and small LCD screen. My photograph was taken by the camera, and I was handed a “spotme” machine. As I walked into the conference room [...]
Also published on the Sydney Morning Herald website By BRAD HOWARTH (reprinted below with permission) May 16, 2006 One of the hardest parts of taking a new technology into a foreign market is finding the right people to talk to. Trade shows and government agencies play their parts but without personal introductions to the right parties, [...]
