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An overview of BlueVia in Spanish

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:40:36 +0000

Right then time for Jose Valles, top man at BlueVia, to feature again. This time there’s a bit of a change to the normal interview style though. I just changed one tiny aspect.

The language!

I asked Jose if he could introduce BlueVia entirely in Spanish.

My Spanish is limited to basic two and three letter words — therefore I briefed Jose not to expect any questions whatsoever from me — and to just give us a continual stream.

Aaaaaand I think that’s what he’s done. I heard various key phrases in amongst the Spanish so I think it’s all good. If you’re a native Spanish speaker or if Spanish is one of your languages, could you let me know what you think?

Thanks Jose!

And for MIR’s Spanish readers, here’s a wee explanation courtesy of the Google Translate engine:

Estoy utilizando la herramienta de Google Translate para escribir este texto. Por favor, perdona el mal español. Este video muestra a José Valles de BlueVia nos da una visión general de la empresa.

For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.

José Valles discusses life at BlueVia

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:00:07 +0000

Continuing our series on BlueVia, we’re back with José Valles, BlueVia’s top man. In this segment, I asked him what it’s like working at BlueVia.

For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.

We talk to Ruben Mellado, BlueVia’s Head of Product

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:14:41 +0000

In the fourth episode of our BlueVia Introduction series (kindly supported by BlueVia) we meet Ruben Mellado. Ruben is BlueVia’s Head of Product and Technology and therefore is well placed to give us a bit more of a technical overview of the available APIs. Have a watch!

For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.

Founder of Twitea.me, Arturo Garrido, discusses BlueVia

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:10:51 +0000

In the first of our BlueVia Introduction series (kindly supported by BlueVia), we meet Arturo Garrido, the founder of Twitea.me — a mobile developer who’s already heavily using BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme.

Arturo’s service is a Twitter-by-SMS service for Mexico where there’s a high proliferation of feature phones — but also high demand for services such as Twitter. Arturo’s service enables consumers to use Twitter via SMS. All well and good. The problem for him used to be the business model. Sending and receiving SMS used to cost him a lot of money and Arturo used to have to support the service with advertising (or, in some cases, pay for it himself). That’s until Telefonica’s BlueVia came along and changed his world for the better.

Have a watch of the video to find out more. In particular, take note of his comments around the BlueVia business model — Arturo is now generating revenue instead of losing it! Plus he’s got carrier-class reliability and the capability to launch into lots of other countries using the same BlueVia API.

For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.

Episode 211: The Smartphone Obsession Part 2, Mark Freeman of Movement

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:09:50 +0000

Following on from the first episode of The Smartphone Obsession in Marketing Series it’s time for episode two.

I caught up with Mark Freeman, one of the founders of mobile agency, Movement, at the recent IAB Mobile event. Given Mark’s company has been working with many of the leading lights in the mobile industry, I wanted to see what he thought about my assertion that the mobile marketing industry is far too obsessed with smartphones. I especially liked Mark’s comments on brands writing for the medium of SMS.

Have a watch and see what you think.

Episode 208: Meffys – CBS Mobile sweep the board with 3 awards

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:22:37 +0000

Congratulations to the team at CBS Mobile who won no less than three award categories at the Meffys Awards 2010.

Here’s what they won:

App Store Blockbuster category:
CBS Mobile for ‘NCAA March Madness on Demand’

Innovative App category
CBS Mobile for ‘CW City-Wize iPhone App’

TV & Video Service category
CBS Mobile for ‘TV.com Android & iPhone Mobile’

Thanks go to The Symbian Foundation for supporting the production of videos from the event. Thank you Symbian, you rock!

Episode 144: Talking Symbian with Michael McTernan of Rapid Mobile

Ewan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:18:29 +0000

We bumped into Michael McTernan of Rapid Mobile at the Mobile World Congress Symbian hospitality area and asked what he thought of Symbian…

Episode 140: Peter Lindgren demonstrates Mobile Documents

Ewan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:20:06 +0000

We’ve been following Peter Lindgren and his colleagues at Visiarc for a few years now. At MWC 2009, we saw their first early alpha of Mobile Documents and this year we managed to get an exclusive look at the current version which is almost ready for launch. The power and potential of Mobile Documents is impressive. It brings a totally new dimension to managing your email attachments on-the-go. Have a watch of this demo…

Episode 54: Natasha Malook of Blue Systems

Ewan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:57:29 +0000

I’ve been following Blue Systems for some time — I really like their real-time financial data BlackBerry service, Blue Mobile. I caught up with Blue Systems’ Natasha Malook at the EMEA BlackBerry Alliance Summit recently to find out what was new.

Episode 51: Araaf Razab‐Sekh of RSIC

Ewan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:34:19 +0000

I was delighted to catch Araaf Razab‐Sekh, General Manager at RSIC. They’re a Netherlands based mobile developer specialising in BlackBerry. Araaf took some time to tell me about their really smart forms-based services that they’re deploying for a huge array of organisations, from municipal authorities to large enterprise customers. Have a watch!