What does everyone use to send SMS alerts to employees for things like server alerts, planned downtime, that sort of scenario? Do you go to an SMS provider, buy the credits and then make your own sending system (or hook in to their API)? Or do you us...

Right then, here’s the third and latest episode of the first series of LadyGeek TV just out of the edit suite. And this week’s episode features the ultra cool Maggie Philbin. You remember Maggie, right? Tomorrow’s World? The best pr...

I haven’t been able to announce my involvement in the LadyGeek TV App Show in public until today. I am — officially — Strategic Advisor — to the show. And goodness me, it’s brilliant. If I do say so myself. Have you seen...

Following on from my post the other day where I asked if anyone knew the limit of iPhone/iPad activations per iTunes account, it seems that reader MAQ_Ecosse has managed to activate 28 iPhones on one account. In practice, that means that MAQ’s...

Thank you to Richard who sent me a note asking me to check out MifiClub, a service that will send you a MiFi next-day in the United Kingdom. The service is obviously aimed at people traveling to the UK and staying for a few days or a week or so. It&#...

Well then. Yet again I am reminded of how supremely rubbish the mobile industry is. Occasionally I manage to pull myself out of this stupor and allow myself to get very excited at the possibilities. Then reality slaps me on the face with a big, wet h...

Have you been waiting to get an iPhone on 3? I know quite a few people who have been, especially after their rather attractive pricing. Just a quick refresher… You can pick up an iPhone 4 16GB for just £99 quid based on a 900 minutes, 5,000 te...

Another question for you, dear reader. This time it’s about iPhones and iPads. Right now I have 5 iPhones and one iPad each syncing beautifully. I plug them into my Mac Pro and sync. Job done, all is fine. If I buy an application on my iPhone 4...

I got this mail in from a reader today — are there any BlackBerry experts reading? Have you any experience with blackberry 8900′s – specifically related to threaded messages? One of our users has a Curve 8900 and on occasion (but no...

Right then I’ve been testing out the Beta of BlackBerry Protect, the company’s new consumer remote backup/wipe/locate service that’s coming soon. It’s absolute, absolute genuis. Finally I get mission critical security faciliti...

If you recall a few weeks ago I posted an exclusive from the Vodafone 360 team announcing the upcoming arrival of the Vodafone 360 Samsung H2. I’d taken a look at the H2 and found it a rather nice improvement on the Samsung H1 (the original top...

We need your help, especially the Dutch nationals reading. Long time MIR reader, Ed Cave, is about to start a 6-month contract in Holland and thus needs to kit himself out with a mobile phone and/or mobile service plan for the country. Can you help?...

The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 3 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. I managed to get Jon Mew on camera for you — Jon is the man who runs mobile fo...

The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 2 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. I caught up with Mark Freeman, one of the founders of mobile agency, Movement, at th...

I wanted to document the rather astounding news (reported by Staci at paidContent.org) that the almighty Amazon is now doing more than $1 billion in sales through mobile devices (including Kindle). I’m not surprised. I’ve been using Amazo...

The Condescending Apple Press Conference video from CollegeHumour has been doing the rounds. I thought it worthy of a post this Friday afternoon. The CollegeHumour guys re-imagined Steve’s recent press conference thus… (I particularly lik...

I’ve published quite a lot today on Nokia. We’ve had Tomi Ahonen’s extensive piece then the Risku Manifesto post. And now, I thought I’d tie it together with this superb example of American mobile policy that totally excludes...

Following on from Tomi’s lengthy piece on Nokia (“Nokia’s fall from grace: The Background Story“), I thoroughly enjoyed Andrew Orlowski’s piece in today’s Register. Andrew interviewed a former senior Nokia Executiv...

Yesterday, Tomi Ahonen posted yet another magnum opus chronicling Nokia under Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s reign. It makes for absolutely compelling reading, especially — and I mean especially — if you’re drinking the Apple Koolaid,...

On the train again and goodness me I keep seeing folk with weird and wonderful phones. This evening I saw a chap with one of these. It’s definitely a Sony Ericsson (the guy has the stupid one-inch wide bollocks headphone jack that SE used to of...

Good news if you’ve been enjoying access to The Times iPad app. If like me you were one of the first to stump up the cash for the app, you’ll have been delighted to find that you got 30 days extra free when the end of the month arrived. W...

During a walkabout of the Uplinq Soutions Showcase floor, I bumped into Cheryl Goodman, Director of Marketing for Qualcomm’s Mirasol screen display technology. I asked if she’d be keen to show us a demonstration on camera and she readily...

It was reader Kip Hakes who suggested I check out Endomondo, the GPS sports tracking app a few weeks ago. Well, on Saturday it was my turn to take baby Archie out for a stroll. My instructions were to exit at 930am and not to return until 11am. He wa...

Last night I blew 7 quid on an Above & Beyond trance album. I find good trance music useful when I’m working on extended projects that need focused attention. I bought the album on my iPhone. I listed to some of the tracks immediately and...

I can’t believe it even qualifies as to be called a ‘client’. Sort it out Evernote. I’ve been patient for a long time. Developing on BlackBerry isn’t a sodding black art. Three times I’ve gone to look something up...