In movie terms Bond is still one of the biggest brands around, especially with the 2006 re-invention of Casino Royale staring Daniel Craig.

Even so, these days it seems you can’t make a movie without some product placement … so do we really care what phone Bond is using in his latest movie? read full post »

Social Networks on your mobile phone seems sooo obvious to me now … I can’t believe it hasn’t happened sooner. So when Orange recently announced the completion of an agreement with MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo (amongst overs) to allow mobile access … I nearly all my contacts and followed it up with a ‘poke’ for good measure. read full post »

Recently I posted about Hyper Island an amazing school for technology and digital discovery. It wasn’t until a few days later that I realised one of the founders of Hyper was now working for Vodafone and I had a contact there.

So could I speak to the man himself? The answer was yes. So here’s my interview with David Erixon, Director of Brand Strategy & Manifestation, Vodafone Global Marketing. Oh yes … and co founder of Hyper Island.

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If I had a crystal ball in the shape of a phone I would look into it every so often and try to gauge what the next great ‘thing’ in mobile will be. For a while now it feels like there’s been a lack of exciting new developments on the scene but is that all about to change? read full post »

Today at 6pm (09.06.08) will be the long awaited announcement of the iPhone 2 at Apple’s annual developer event in San Fran. With all the hype surrounding it in the past few months we must remember that it’s so far all been just that. read full post »

Madonna will be releasing her new album ‘Hard Candy’ through a deal with … Sony Ericsson and Warner Music International.

So do handsets & network operators now have more distribution power than record companies? read full post »

High definition TV on your mobile, why not … a new Graphics Processing Unit could be the answer with 1080p high definition pictures brought to your mobile device by ‘ARM‘. read full post »

These days it might not be enough to have the latest mobile or cell phone, you have to have as many features as possible too. From mp3 player to 10 mega pixel camera it all counts … but I’m not sure even that is enough? If you’ve got few bucks to spare take a look at Knitware’s phones with the biggest bling! read full post »

Blow me down with a feather, if I didn’t get a call from Orange, my mobile provider yesterday.

I was surprised because usually when I need to get hold of them it’s a nightmare.

When you call them you have to navigate up to five layers of computerised options, none of which ever seem to offer the alternative you are looking for and all of which are constructed to try and lead you to a pre-recorded message rather than a real life operator. read full post »

With iPhones widely out of stock and rumours about the imminent release of the 3G iPhone burning wild, Apple have just thrown some more petrol on the flames.

 An Apple press statement, released today states:

A team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard® and OS X iPhone™, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.

 Could it be any clearer? Get your wallets out…