Archive for March, 2009

And so Vodafone has bid farewell to DRM. The company has signed deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music to offer their tracks and albums DRM free across Vodafone markets for both mobile phones and PCs.
Good old DRM, eh? There was a time when Having DRM was The Big Thing in [...]

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According to Sony – well, its UK MD Jim Maguire, to be precise – the PSP will win out over the iPhone 3G as a gaming console.
That may well be the case, but the fact that Maguire – and Nintendo’s UK General Manager David Yarnton – have felt moved to depreciate the high profile new [...]

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This years future mobile entertainment awards were granted by a panel of expert judges based on a number of criteria, including: Innovation; Customer retention; Customer growth; Commercial deployment; Ease of use/user interface; Revenue generation; Pricing (for services/products); and Capability/functionality.
From a short list of nominations, the case was made for each nominee, with their relative merits and [...]

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It’s Friday, so it must be time for another story about Nokia. Or LTE. This time it’s both, as it happens…
Reports are emerging that the smartphone maker is developing a high-end ‘data-intensive’ touchscreen-based device that will work on the LTE (long term evolution) network soon to be rolled out by Verizon Wireless across the US. It [...]

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This morning one of my Google Alerts flagged up this interesting-looking article headlined “Cash and cheques could be unfashionable”. The UK Payments Council has just published a Progress Report on the UK’s National Payments Plan. As a mobile commerce analyst I was pleased to see that the report is quite positive about the prospects for [...]

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