In this episode interview with Robin Bowler and David Hayes from i-mate. More information about them below.
Robin Bowler
Global Marketing Director, i-mate
Robin Bowler joined i-mate in August 2006 and is responsible for spearheading i-mate’s global marketing programme across 100 countries. He directs a global marketing team based at i-mate headquarters in Dubai and territories around the world to drive market penetration and increase brand awareness.
Bowler is a seasoned marketing and business development professional with over twenty years marketing experience in a range of sectors, roles and international markets.
Prior to joining i-mate, Bowler helped build and drive the marketing management team which launched the UK National Lottery and later took control of the £800 million Instants scratch-card brand, where he built weekly sales revenues up from £12 million to £16 million in less than a year. Bowler’s international experience spans across Europe, Asia and Africa.
David Hayes
Chief Technical Officer, i-mate
David Hayes is the Chief Technology Officer at i-mate and brings over 12 years experience to the role and strong links within the Windows Mobile community from ODMs through to operators and retailers.
He became the CTO of i-mate following the acquisition of A Living Picture (ALP), a company he founded to develop Momento, an advanced digital picture frame technology.
Prior to ALP, David was also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of DAT plc, one of the early pioneers of over-the-air device management for Windows Mobile phones. DAT provided IT services to major tour operators and banks in the UK. Under David’s leadership, DAT Group plc was formed following a successful listing on the AIM market at the London Stock Exchange in 2004.
David Hayes started his career as a senior IT consultant in London working for companies such as Reuters, Kleinwort Benson, Sanwa Bank and BAA.
We apologize for the background noise but it was unavoidable - pavilion of UIQ at 3GSM 2007 was located near fountains!
In this episode: interview with Johan Sandberg, CEO of UIQ.
Some information from about UIQ:
UIQ Technology AB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. UIQ Technology creates and licenses the open software platform, UIQ, to leading mobile phone manufacturers. The flexible and customizable user interface and development platform is pre-integrated and tested with Symbian OS, the leading industry standard operating system for mobile phones. www.uiq.com.
Motorola recently launched MOTORIZR Z8 that is powered by UIQ - this phone is also discussed in this interview:
the launch of the new MOTORIZR Z8, the fourth product from Motorola Inc., others include the A920, A1000 and M1000, based on Symbian OS. The MOTORIZR Z8 is a smart and sexy HSDPA phone featuring the world’s first ‘kick-slider’ design including a high-definition screen, two 2-megapixel cameras and a hot-swapable microSD memory slot.
Photos from the interview and more information can be found HERE.
In this episode: HTC press conference at 3GSM 2007 where 3 new phones were announced and where HTC was talking also about the past.
High Tech Computer Corp., the provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices, launched three smart devices from its Q1 2007 product portfolio at the 3GSM World Congress Conference and Exhibition. These ground-breaking devices showcase the latest in mobile convergence for both consumer and enterprise audiences and epitomize HTC’s commitment to developing innovative, appealing and category-defining form factors and applications.
In this episode: interview with Scott Horn from Microsoft - about new features in Windows Mobile 6.
Windows Mobile 6 comes fresh on the heels of a successful year that saw Microsoft’s worldwide converged mobile device shipments grow 135.3 percent (year over year) in 2006, according to leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC. The industry is fast taking notice of Microsoft in the wireless arena and realizing the business benefits of Windows Mobile devices, resulting in IDC’s expectation that Windows Mobile will experience the largest growth of any mobile operating system worldwide, at 75.6 percent, through the year 2010.
More information about this interview, including related photos, can be found HERE.
In this episode audio recording of session about mobile operating systems is presented.
Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive Officer, Symbian
Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM (maker of BlackBerry devices and solutions)
Suzan DelBene, Corporate Vice President, Mobile and Embedded Devices, Microsoft Corp
Topics covered included mobile operating systems Symbian and Windows Mobile as well as offering that RIM has regarding BlackBerry connect for smartphone operating systems. Also issues related to usage of mobile phones in life of people were discussed. Generally focus was on smartphone operating systems.
In this episode audio recording of Microsoft press briefing at 3GSM is presented.
Main topic of this briefing is introduction of Windows Mobile 6 - new version of Microsoft’s operating system for smartphones.
Windows Mobile 6 delivers the ability to view e-mails in their original rich HTML format with live links to Web and SharePoint sites, which means text and images are displayed as they would be on a PC, and are available from a corporate e-mail server such as Exchange Server 2007, from Web-based accounts such as Windows Live Hotmail or from a myriad of other popular service providers. Windows Mobile 6 also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides customers with a rich set of Windows Live services. For example, now through Windows Live Messenger, people can chat with more than one person at one time, express themselves through animated figures, quickly send a file or image, or record and send voice notes.
The newest version of the platform offers the most genuine Microsoft Office system experience in the mobile versions of Office Outlook, Office Word, Office Excel and Office PowerPoint by bringing capabilities once available only on the PC versions of these products to the small screen. This allows users to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting, without affecting tables, images or text, and to view PowerPoint presentations on their device.
Latest news about Windows Mobile phones, including:
— Google Maps for Windows Mobile released!
— Windows Mobile 6.0 aka Crossbow coming at 3GSM ?
— 3GSM - what to expect
— better voice quality to Skype for Windows Mobile coming
— HTC Athena Pocket PC phone
— i-mate JAQ3 Pocket PC phone
— news about various software for Windows Mobile
— Zune phone coming in 2007
— press conferences of Microsoft and HTC at 3GSM 2007 - preview
— Windows Vista and Windows Mobile Device Center
— how to select the best mobile phone for yourself
— other news and stories about Windows Mobile phones
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