Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

Google Sync for Mobile

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

We have been working on this for a little while and today it finally saw the light of day. Check it out at Google Mobile or download it directly to your Blackberry from http://m.google.com/sync.
Also see my post to on the Google Mobile blog.

Gmail for Mobile saves the day

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Mike Rowehl of Admob has a great story about how the Gmail for Mobile Java client saves him on his current trip to India. It is nice to know that we can make a difference to some people’s lives.

Gmail J2ME client available internationally

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Today we launched the Gmail for Mobile J2ME application in Spanish, French, German, Italian and UK English. So if you are a Gmail user in any of those languages you can now get the app by going to gmail.com/app or googlemail.com/app in your phone browser. Let me know if you have any problems.
Also, you can […]

Jonathan Schwartz uses Gmail for Mobile

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Download the Scoble Show and go to the 8 minute marker to hear Jonathan (CEO of Sun Microsystems) talk about the iPhone and how he told Steve Jobs that it would be a lot better if he could use the Gmail for Mobile J2ME application on it.

iPhone, schmyPhone…

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Does the world really need another blog post about the iPhone? Probably not, but I just can’t resist it. I tried really hard for the last couple of weeks.
There are two questions about the iPhone that I am interested in:
Is it a good phone?
What impact will it have on the Mobile industry?
Christian Lindholm has […]

2006 - Executive Summary

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

This has been a pretty eventful year for my family and me. It has also been the first full year in which I have blogged more or less regularly, writing a total of 56 posts. This makes it a lot easier to look back and remember the highlights of the past 12 months.

In January I […]

Goodbye Orange, hello 3!

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

As planned I went out yesterday to get myself a brand new shiny X Series N73 from the 3 Store. I only have a month or so left on my existing Orange contract, but am so incredibly irritated by their terrible customer service and outrageous data charges that I had to make the jump straight […]

Thank you 3!

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Congratulations to 3 for doing the right thing and launching a true flat rate data plan in the UK. What can I say but “About fucking time!”. Yes, T-Mobile has been pushing the boat out quite a bit with their ‘unlimited’ Web-n-Walk plan, but of course that excludes VoIP, Video, P2P filesharing and generally anything […]

Yahoo! Tones closing down?

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

It looks like Yahoo! has had enough of the Ringtone business and is closing down it’s - still relatively young - Tones property. At least in the US. I wonder why. Thoughts? Comments?

Gmail Mobile launched

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Today Google launched a J2ME client for Gmail. I have, obviously, been using it for some time and really have to say that it is awesome. It has all the features that you would expect from Gmail: threaded view, starring, archiving etc. It also allows you, like Gmail, to view PDF, DOC, XLS and some […]