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Offensive Advertising

French Connection, (aka FCUK) no stranger to courting controversy, announced today a joint promotion with Chatroulette. If you’ve been on digital hunger-strike recently, Chatroullette is a service which allows you to video conference with a series of random sad blokes and their penises. Rumours of girls using the service are yet to be confirmed by [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists #212

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is out at Terence Eden Has a Blog.
If you’re a stranger around these parts, the Carnival features the best writing about mobile from the past week and is considered a “must read” among all true Mobilists.
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Mob4Hire Taking Off

One of the finalists of last year’s Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona was Mob4Hire, which showed an awful lot of potential. I caught up with them this year again at MWC and was really pleased to see that they were fulfilling their early promise and adding new services to their core offering.
Mob4Hire is the inspiration [...]

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Digital Trash II

About a month ago, I wrote a post exploring the potential downsides of the new hot topic of Augmented Reality. As a reminder, while I’m a huge fan of AR and have been for years, but that doesn’t mean that I’m blind to future problems, unlike many pundits who are busy hyping it up.
One of [...]

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Tomi Ahonen’s Almanac

It’s that time of the year again. Our pal, Tomi Ahonen (consultant, speaker, blogger, Tweeter, raconteur and all-round good Mobilist) has just launched his Almanac for the year – a steal at €9.99. For our US readers, we don’t use dollars here, but it’s about $13.57 in your language.
Tomi’s Almanac is one of the most [...]

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How To ….. Do Well at the Mobile Premier Awards

As I wrote on my previous post, this is my fourth year judging the Mobile Premier Awards, so I thought I’d give you some tips about how to put your company in danger of winning something. If you know someone who is presenting, you might like to point them over here as a kind of [...]

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Mobile Premier Awards – Hope to See You There

The final agenda for Team Rudy’s Mobile Premier Awards has been announced – you can read all about it here..
It’s one of my favourite events of the year and it’ll be the fourth year I’ve been on the jury – I’ve been involved since the beginning – and it gets better and bigger every year. [...]

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The Disruption of Politics

There are a bunch of sectors going through huge disruptions at the moment, whether it’s newspapers, telephony (via VoIP), books, TV, music, film, mobile handsets and if those rumours are right, the PC might be coming in for a fair bit of disruption tomorrow too. But one sector that is changing and doesn’t get a [...]

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Piracy Might be Good for Business

We’ll all too aware that record companies have been blaming their industry woes on people who download music without paying for it. They’re also very fond of making the flawed assumption that every track downloaded for free would have been paid for if the free option didn’t exist – despite no evidence to support the [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists 207

Head on over to this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists 207 at Volker on Mobile.
If you’re not from around these parts, the Carnival features the very best writing about mobile from the previous week at a different blogger’s website. It’s a great resource for finding out what’s on in mobile – all in one central [...]

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