Archive | February, 2010

Episode 107: James Lamberti of mobile advertising giant, InMobi

If you haven’t heard of InMobi yet, don’t worry. You will. They’re coming. Having already locked up the Far Eastern markets (8 billion mobile impressions a month, 150+ million user reach), InMobi is the biggest mobile marketing giant that you’ve never heard of. If you’re into mobile applications (or websites) in any way, you should [...]

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Episode 106: Hands-on demo of Chomp

Who better to give us a tour through new mobile application discovery service, Chomp, than co-founder Ben Keighran? Here we go…

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Episode 105: Ben Keighran of Chomp (Part 3)

In the third part of our interview with Chomp co-founder Ben Keighran, I asked him about his background in mobile and was surprised to discover that, amongst other things, he’s a dab hand at writing Bluetooth Apps… AT bluetooth commands via a Sony Ericsson, anybody?

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Episode 104: Ben Keighran of Chomp (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with Ben Keighran of Chomp, we learn more about the company and in particular, their developer services (“Chomp Connect“). If you’re an iPhone app developer, I very much recommend having a look at their offering.

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Episode 103: Ben Keighran of Chomp (Part 1)

Ben Keighran is Co-Founder of one of the hottest Silicon Valley app startups I’ve come across, Chomp. The primary focus for the company is to significantly boost app discovery, initially on the iPhone platform. One of the key facts that Ben and co-founder Cathy discovered during their initial research was that people tend to download [...]

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Episode 82: Anssi Vanjoki on the Future of Mobile

If you’d like a sneak peak into the Nokia game plan over the next 4 years, stop everything, get a coffee and sit down and watch this one — the last in the series of videos from the interview with Nokia’s EVP of Markets, Anssi Vanjoki.  In this video he talks about the way he [...]

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Episode 91: The Dell Mini 5 Android Tablet

As I walked around the MobileFocus event last week I spotted this rather swanky 5-inch Dell Mini 5 tablet unit on the Dell table.  The chap behind the table obliged us with a hands-on demo.  It’s just a preview unit but goodness me it’s looking gorgeous.  What do you think?  Would you have one of [...]

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Episode 90: John Malloy of Blue Run Ventures on MWC (briefly)

Again I managed to catch John Malloy of Blue Run Ventures talking about his thoughts on Mobile World Congress — it’s just a quick one as I didn’t have too much time with him.  But don’t worry I’ve got a good lot of video of John (the next few parts filmed back in Menlo Park) [...]

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Episode 89: John Malloy of Blue Run Ventures on FusionOne

I managed to grab Blue Run Ventures Partner, John Malloy, as he was heading out the door of the stand and ask him what he thought about portfolio company FusionOne.  John’s been a long term investor in the company and I was particularly interested to find out what he thought of FusionOne’s carrier/operator opportunity.  As [...]

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Episode 79: Symbian’s Julien Fourgeaud on future vision

We sat down with Julien Fourgeaud to talk about his involvement in the Symbian Foundation, the importance of explaining technology as a user experience, where the Foundation and platform might go (i.e. future vision) and the possibilities of using Symbian on other connected devices.  Let’s see what’s on his mind!

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