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An Amazon Phone? The “aPhone”? Come on! Yes please!
It’s me again. And I’m back beating the drum for innovation and competition in the mobile industry. News — or “reports” — have emerged recently that apparently claim Amazon is developing a mobile...
View ArticleAmazon’s planning to launch same-day delivery: Fantastic!
I caught this in a Netimperative story today: Amazon is planning on offering a premium ‘same day delivery’ option for its US customers, in a move that could put further pressures on ecommerce firms and...
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Amazon’s AWS re:Invent — the company’s first global customer/partner conference
This is just a quickie about Amazon’s recently announced re:Invent customer and partner conference. It’s coming up on the 27th of November this year and it’s being held at the rather swish Venetian...
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The utterly horrifying reality of today’s consumer cloud services
I’ve got 6 Apple computers live at the moment along with 2 iPads and 3 iPhones. I’d be seriously annoyed if they were lost or stolen. But I’d be safe in the knowledge that the important stuff is stored...
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Amazon: Google’s biggest problem? Quite possibly…
I clicked on this Business Insider post that contains some perspective on what’s keeping Google executives up at night. What Googlers worry about in private is a growing trend among consumers to skip...
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Kill off the catalogue Argos; You should have been an ‘Amazon’ to me — you...
Argos. I’ve spent a lot with Argos over the years, mostly as a student and then when I still lived in London, I used the Camden branch to buy a lot of necessary nonsense for the apartment. I...
View ArticleFailed and frustrated by Amazon: Does anyone know why I can’t upgrade my...
I spend a lot of money with Amazon. Hundreds of pounds a month, if not more. That’s because wherever possible, I direct as much of my spend through the company. I routinely work hard to radically...
View ArticleMy Amazon Christmas: I LOVED it!
This Christmas was an usual one. It wasn’t traditional in any sense because we moved house on the 15th of December. We didn’t have the familiar build up that even with a new young family I’m accustomed...
View ArticleWhy Amazon is thinking beyond the operator
I was trying to buy a computer monitor the other day. I was standing at a train platform browsing Amazon via their dedicated app. I was prevented from hitting the ‘one click’ buy button because my 3G...
View ArticleI’ve got 200gb of photos on Picturelife and they’re not backed up: Am I nuts?
I was evangelising Picturelife to Ben and Rafe whilst we were recording some 361 Degrees podcast episodes recently. I explained that I had just over 200gb of photos (38,000 images, 1,500 videos) and...
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Picturelife update: I’ve now moved everything to my own S3 bucket
Thank you for all the emails and comments I’ve had from readers berating me for being so stupid. It’s in reaction to this post: I’ve got 200gb of photos on Picturelife and they’re not backed up: Am I...
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Amazon’s Fire Phone: 12 executives give their opinions
What did executives across the wider mobile industry in the UK make of last night’s launch of the Amazon Fire Phone? I asked a series of executives from a wide variety of companies to give us their...
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Amazon Fire Phone: Too expensive to matter today
At $649, the Amazon Fire Phone appears to be a really good piece of engineering and software design. It’s just too expensive to matter at the moment. This is a turning point to remember though. The...
View ArticleSurvey: 27% of UK consumers would consider purchasing Amazon Fire Phone
While I’m writing about the Amazon Fire Phone, here’s a survey conducted by Gorkana THIS morning (i.e. the day after the launch). Depending on how you read it, it’s not brilliant news. Let’s get into...
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I’m synching my 101GB DropBox at 21mb/sec right now
…thanks to Amazon. I’ve setup an instance using Amazon Workspaces to see how it performs as a secondary ‘backup’ computer that I can always access wherever I am. I’ve installed DropBox on the desktop...
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Have you ever bought a phone from Simply Electronics?
After my post yesterday about my wife selecting an Android phone, I decided to have a look at the most efficient way of buying an HTC One M8 online. I checked out Google Shopping to see what the...
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Here’s my backup strategy for my 300GB Picturelife account
Picturelife has done it again: They’ve just released the latest version of their service on mobile and it’s even better than before. The price plans have had a total re-jig and now for $15/month,...
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Is this why Amazon needs to get into mobile?
As I was setting up my new LG G3 piece of Android joy the other week I inevitably searched for the Amazon app. I was looking for the main Amazon app — the one I use almost daily on the iPhone to order...
View ArticleUpdate on the WiFi/IP camera post for monitoring an elderly relative
Thank you to those who commented on my post last week (“Can you recommend a good IP/Web camera for monitoring an infirm pensioner?“). After a good amount of additional research I actually ended up...
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Is £399 still too much for the Amazon Fire Phone?
I logged into the web version of Amazon yesterday and was greeted by this take over screen: It’s the promo for the UK version of the Amazon Fire Phone, exclusively available on O2. If you choose the...
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Fire Phone fails to spark interest
Millions of Fire Phones left unsold It was obvious that a smartphone marketed mainly on gimmicks would fail. The confirmation came in Amazon’s latest earnings call, in which it revealed revenue and...
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The worst technology failures of 2014
The end of 2014 will soon be upon us, and even though there is still more than a month left for some major newsworthy gaffes and missteps to happen in the world of technology and mobile, we thought it...
View ArticleCan Google please put the mobile operators out of their misery?
Google? Amazon? I really don’t mind, but I would like one of the key industry players to start mopping up the business. When the ONLY thing your mobile operator can offer you to differentiate...
View ArticleWe’re getting there with BT’s Quad-play and Google’s Project Fi
I am pleased to see the mobile operator trend toward commoditisation. Long term readers will recognise that I have a rather binary view on the mobile operator industry: Either innovate, or get out of...
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Amazon launches “AWS IoT” Internet of Things service
Amazon already has a cloud business called Amazon Web Services, already one of the most popular in the world. The company has just launched a new service called AWS IoT, which aims to help customers...
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