Archive | May, 2009

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That’s our feed now live in the Apple iTunes store. If you do a search for ‘Mobile Developer TV’ or ‘Mobile Developer’ in 48 hours you should find our logo winking out at you. Hit subscribe and you’ll get all the videos formatted beautifully for your iPhone/Apple TV/Desktop the moment we publish them. We’re using [...]

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Is Ed Lea Europe’s most successful independent iPhone developers?

I’ve been hunting for stats to try and justify this claim. Ed Lea is behind some of the most popular iPhone applications in the UK, including the unofficial Sky+ iPhone App (Check out: Ed Lea’s TV Plus storms the iTunes App Store Chart). I’ll be bringing you a one-on-one interview with him soon here on [...]

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Episode 3: Mark Curtis of Flirtomatic shows us around their office

Last week I headed over to the West End of London to visit Flirtomatic, one of the world’s leading mobile flirting/dating sites. I asked their CEO, Mark Curtis, to show us around the office before we sat down and talked about the mobile industry and where it’s going. Unfortunately every single part of the 60 [...]

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Episode 2: Christian Lindholm on Mobile Applications

Yesterday morning I sat down with Christian Lindholm, the Managing Partner of internationally renowned design house, Fjord. We filmed about 40 minutes worth of his super perspective on all things mobile. Fjord are the people behind the absolutely beautiful BBC iPlayer Mobile service (amongst others). Christian has a rather unique viewpoint on the mobile industry [...]

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Episode 1: Mobile Monday Silicon Valley

Mobile Developer TV dropped in on Mobile Monday Silicon Valley for their May event, sponsored by Skyhook Wireless. The theme of the event was Location-Aware Apps (check out the overview I published from the night). It’s been a little while in coming whilst we get all the infrastructure in place — so thank you everyone [...]

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Note to self: Definitely go to Google I/O next year

Quincy over at 9to5mac.com reports (via TC) that everyone who went along to the Google I/O show at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today is walking away with a free HTC Magic Android handset (running cupcake, no less) and a month’s unlimited 3G data. Very nice indeed. I’ll take two please… You can find [...]

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We’re off to Sony Ericsson’s official launch tomorrow

So tomorrow night, Sony Ericsson are hosting a launch party tomorrow night in London. It’s not just a launch party, it’s a Global launch party. Here’s what the invite says: Join us for an evening of cocktails, canapés and innovative Sony Ericsson product announcements for 2009 “So is this to talk about Sony Ericsson’s Android [...]

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o2 gets Palm Pre for Christmas in the UK

Poor old Orange. They didn’t get the Palm Pre. And I think they really could have done with it. Neither did Vodafone but it’s not as if they need it, do they? o2 — usually connected with the iPhone when you’re talking about the UK, is now set to become the official Palm Pre exclusive [...]

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Nokia Ovi Store is open for business

Over the weekend, Nokia Ovi Store was soft-launched in Australia this weekend to allow the team, sweat pour off the proverbial forehead, to check everything was ready for launch. And it is. We’re live. And the mobile industry is changed for good. Finally you can deploy an application, easily, for Nokia customers. It used to [...]

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Mark Curtis of Flirtomatic: Don’t forget the mobile web

I popped by the Flirtomatic London offices today to meet with founder Mark Curtis and the team. I’ve long been a follower (and fan) of Flirtomatic (check out the MIR archive coverage) and particularly fascinated with how they’ve managed to build such a massive base of users via the mobile web. Flirtomatic is, as you [...]

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