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  • Cloud Services to Help Media Owners Join the Mobile Party

    Having just arrived in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, I can already feel the excitement. The mobile industry remains a vibrant place to work; media and Web companies are all ...

  • Like Nokia, Operators Must Start Thinking Differently

    I love this week — Barcelona in February is a special time. Mobile World Congress, the GSM Association's flagship event, has become the centrepiece of the mobile industry. And yet ...

  • Veering Off the Smartphone Track

    I'm expecting many of the smartphones released at next week's Mobile World Congress to look pretty much the same. Manufacturers seem to differentiate more in terms of the latest software ...

  • Out of the Fire

    So Stephen Elop's jumped off his "burning platform" and now finds himself swimming in the water with Steve Ballmer. Sitting in the press conference to announce Nokia's new partnership with ...

  • Stephen Elop’s Brave Leap into the Dark

    I see that Stephen Elop's memo to Nokia employees about the current state of the company has been leaked. The 1,200-word message compares Nokia to a man on a burning ...

  • Picturing 30 Years of Progress

    I was talking to the Sunday Times about mobile data rates when it struck me how far we've come in recent years. Back during the mobile industry's analogue days, the ...

  • Skype Buys Qik to Further Its Video Ambitions

    Skype recently announced it would buy mobile video start-up Qik for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close during January 2011. Our surveys suggest that mobile video is ...

  • Sony’s Gaming Phone Takes Shape

    The persistent rumours that Sony is to release a PlayStation-based phone show no signs of abating as purported leaks continue to appear on gadget blogs. The most recent depicted a ...

  • East Does Meet West

    Last week two important conferences were held on opposite sides of the globe. In London, the Financial Times held the FT World Telecoms Conference; in Hong Kong, the GSM Association ...

  • Motorola’s New Smartphone Combines Brains and Brawn

    The rugged mobile phone has traditionally been a niche product aimed at a small number of people for whom a durable device is essential. Sonim's perhaps the best-known handset manufacturer ...