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Vodafone BlackBerry Storm video

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Kyle
on November 7, 2008
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The Vodafone BlackBerry Storm 9500 is making the rounds and leaving a trail of videos and reviews in its wake. Something I’ve recently discovered about the BlackBerry Storm is that it has no pinch style zoom. The touch screen isn’t so much a touch screen, as it is a “push screen.” In order to type and interact with the phone, you need to physically push down the screen and click. If I want to zoom in and out, I have to select a menu option. The iPhone is superior in this respect. On the other hand, the BlackBerry Storm has cut and paste. Score!

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Another Vodafone BlackBerry Storm commercial

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Douglas Soltys
on October 10, 2008
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Not much to say here, as the BlackBerry Storm hype train continues worldwide. If previous Storm news wasn’t enough to make you want the device, I doubt this video will push you over, but it is cool how they imply that the Storm gives you semi-super powers.

Vodafone to provide content at TBA gigs

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Devin Kent
on May 8, 2008
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Roving bands of “Bluetooth teams” will be spreading content around at the Vodafone TBA concerts being held in Edinburgh this summer. The concert kicks off on June 1st, and Vodafone will be on the scene, giving mobile phone users access to the latest videos from performing artists, as well a a Java guide showing play times, band biographies, and images. The images will include live pictures taken from other areas of the concert, amongst other things.

Experience the mobile web with widgets

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Devin Kent
on April 24, 2008
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Vodafone and China Telecom are teaming up to create a Joint Innovation Lab, or JIL, to work on “widgets” for the mobile web. Currently, despite efforts like SkyFire to create a better browser, mobile web browsers are a shoddy experience at best. Small screens are hard to scale for, and even if you get it mostly right, slow speeds can ruin what little good there is. Widgets are an effort to change that: currently they use a language called ECMAScript, which is good for retrieving content like news headlines and weather updates. They’re limited by their inability to use the phone’s full capabilities. For instance, Nokia announced a new widget platform that gave access to local functions like GPS — and allowed their weather app to grab data based on your coordinates — but this can lead to a whole host of security issues. The JIL will be investigating standards to fix the issues, which will most likely boil down to requiring certification to release widgets.

EA, Glu, Gameloft and I-play team up in the UK

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Devin Kent
on May 30, 2007
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ELSPA, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, has announced that Electronic Arts, Glu Mobile, Gameloft and I-play have teamed up with each other and with 3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone to release games in the UK.

Each of the four publishers will release one game on all five of the largest UK networks. Glu Mobile’s Transformers, Gameloft’s Guitar Legends, EA Sports’ FIFA 08, and an unnamed fourth title, presumably from I-play, will be released on all five networks simultaneously in June, July, August, and September.

“We have been working with the network operators on a number of initiatives to grow the market of mobile gaming, and this is work that builds on the official charts we publish,” said Michael Rawlinson, Managing Director of ELSPA. “We want mobile games publishers to become more involved with ELSPA so that we can assist them further in this growing and exciting area of gaming.”

ELSPA hopes that this collaboration will set a precedent for the industry.

Off-portal content

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Devin Kent
on April 4, 2007
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mBlox, a mobile transaction network, has done a study (registration required) regarding off-portal content, with surprising results.

As reported, by MobHappy, 72% of the 340 people polled were unaware they could purchase content outside of their operator. Additionally, 74% didn’t know that data charges could could be brought to bear in addition to the cost of the content. This could result in backlash from consumers who realize how much extra they’re being charged.

One solution, which is already in place in a partnership between mBlox and Vodafone, is wholesale data packages. Content sellers can purchase bandwidth from the operators to package with their content, meaning that the price is fixed and users won’t be charged any extra.

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Yahoo And Vodafone Sign Deal For More Advertising

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qBored
on November 17, 2006
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YahooYahoo has made a move to increase mobile advertising through mobile web browsers and games.The result of this is that the price of mobile games and mobile content could potentially drop.
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Vodafone Exec Leaves

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qBored
on October 5, 2006
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VodafoneWe thank Moconews for pointing us towards this bit of industry news. The Guardian reports Vodafone’s global head of content development Graeme Ferguson, who was instrumental in the creation of the operator’s mobile games services, has left the company.

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Tim Harrison Interview: Part Two

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on November 30, 2005
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Part Three of the Tim Harrison interview

The final segment of a three part interview with Tim Harrison, Head of Games at Vodafone, is now up at MobileIndustry.biz. The highlights this time lie in his comments on revenue sharing between developers:

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Tim Harrison Interview

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on November 21, 2005
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Interview with Tim Harrison

Parts One and Two of a three part interview with Tim Harrison, Head of Games for Vodafone is now up at MobileIndustry.biz. UK-based Vodafone (parent company of US-based Verizon Wireless) is one of the world’s largest mobile telecommunications companies, so it pays to listen to what their games czar has to say.

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