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Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards 2009 winners

After attending the Visiongain Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards (MAMA) and Conference in London on Thursday, I was asked by a number of people on twitter if I could post a list of the winners and the categories for the awards.
Listed below are the categories and the winners – congratulations to all those who took [...]

The mobile user experience manifesto and conference

I have been following what the team at PMN have been doing for a few years now with their annual mobile user experience conference called MEX.  The MEX 2009 event will be held from 19-20th May in London – full details are on the MEX website.
The event founder, Marek Pawlowski is apparently a fan of [...]

First London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup – November 27th at Google HQ

I’ve been invited to speak at the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup next Thursday 27th November – hosted by Google at their offices in Victoria.
Christopher Osborne has put together an exciting program for the first event with three exciting presenters:
Yahoo Fire Eagle – Gary Gale (Yahoo! Geo Technologies)
CloudMade/Open Street Map – Nick Black (CloudMade)
Location Based Advertising [...]

The Future of Mobile is….

I attended a fantastic Future of Mobile conference in London on Monday attended by well over 450 people at the Kensington Town Hall in London.
There have already been a number of write-ups of the event, but the most interesting one came from Alan Patrick who was not even at the event. He was following the [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 146 at London Calling

Welcome to edition 146 of Carnival of the Mobilists.
It might be my birthday this week, but you get all the presents in terms of some fantastic posts from the world of mobile. This week, the carnival comes to you from London as the attention of the mobile world is focussed on Earls Court and Symbian’s [...]

The normob view of the new iPhone

I have been reading a ton of reviews and views on the new iPhone and so have resisted blogging about it, save my views just become caught up in the iPhone noise.
Travelling home tonight on the tube, I picked up a copy of London Lite, one of London’s two free evening newspapers.
On one of the [...]

iPhone finds its Mojo – Google My Location is a major plus for iPhone users

As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware.  Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye.
Then over the next few days others commented [...]

Will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market?

The picture on the left (taken late December 2007) shows a more common sight than a few years ago.  I have been using WiFi in Starbucks and other coffee shops for nearly 8 years now, and for I think the last 6 years I was predictably the only person on a laptop (connected to WiFi) [...]

Dopplr.com – twitter for grown ups

I came across a new site called dopplr.com via another blog reference, and also featured in the Guardian.

For those familiar with twitter, which essentially tells you where your friends are and what they are doing, dopplr takes this concept into a business context and allows connected business travellers to share their travel plans – so you [...]

CBS Outdoor digital creative in London promoting Google Maps on Vodafone

Saw this very smart piece of digital outdoor from CBS Outdoor who look after advertising on the underground system in London.  It really shows you how digital creative will transform outdoor – well it made me stop, look and take a video of it!
This creative is being played out on High Definition flat panel LCD [...]

Andrew Grill Appointed South Australian Business Ambassador in the UK

July 4, 2006: Andrew Grill Appointed South Australian Business Ambassador in the UK
A team of hand-picked networkers will voluntarily extol the virtues of South Australia during business dealings in Europe, promoting the state as a place to live, work and invest.
Appointed by Premier Mike Rann, the volunteers are a mixture of Australian expatriates and British [...]