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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 [...]

Join the Google Andriod discussion at Mashup 30th September in London

The next mashup* Event is quite timely given the recent Android / T-Mobile / G1 phone launch.
Tony Fish, Simon Grice and the mashup* crew do a great job in planning and staging these events.  I first became involved when invited to chair the location panel at Being-Digital in June.
If you are in London on September 30, [...]

Google geolocation API gets the green light

As foreshadowed by Charles Wiles at the Mobile Monday London event in July, and as announced on the Google Mobile official blog as well as on Charles’ blog, the Google Gears API is now location enabled for both desktop browsers (via IP address) as well as mobile browsers (windows mobile only at the moment) using cell-ID or GPS.
This [...]

Britain’s top 10 private media companies

The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London has been running a series on the “Britain’s biggest private companies” over the last week or so - covering the top 10 retailers, property, manufacturers, food and drink, transport and leisure, business services, financial services, utilities, and resources companies in Britain.
As quoted from the Telegraph website:
Many of Britain’s biggest [...]

Motorola Good Mobile Messaging 5 to be launched for the Nokia E71

UPDATE: November 29 2008
I thought it would be worth an update on this post, as it receives a fair number of hits every day so many others must also be hanging out for the E71 + Goodlink fix.
I’ve been testing version 5.1.0.24 on my E71 and E61i.  The good news is that it works on [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 130 is here

Another huge week in Mobile – Nokia acquires Symbian, Virgin buys Helio and I still haven’t got a Nokia E71 (my hints to Nokia are clearly not obvious enough…).
This is my second turn at hosting Carnival of the Mobilists (having previously hosted Carnival 115), and if you haven’t visited since then, you will notice we’ve had [...]