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Billmonitor: find and compare mobile phone plans in the UK

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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If you are in the UK and want to find the best mobile phone plan that fits your calling/texting/data habits, make sure to check out Billmonitor.com, a price finding and comparison site for mobile phone plans. I am impressed by the clean, uncluttered interface and the ease of use. It’s the only mobile comparison calculator [...]

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EU endorses DVB-H standard for mobile TV

Monday, March 17, 2008

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The European Commission has chosen the Nokia-backed DVB-H standard for mobile TV. Big loser: Qualcomm and its competing platform, MediaFLO. Qualcomm has been lobbying the Commission heavily in the past few months. What does this mean? By creating one standard for the entire EU, the Commission hopes to give a boost to European mobile TV [...]

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Japanese mobile phone etiquette, or why i-mode failed everywhere else

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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I just returned from a trip to Japan. What amazed me was that I did not hear any mobile phones ringing in subway cars or trains. Neither did I hear (or see) people talking on their phones. I was so eerily quiet. But people are using their phones — texting, reading mini-novels, playing games, looking [...]

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Pajama Entrepreneur live from 3GSM Barcelona

Sunday, February 10, 2008

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I am in Barcelona for 3GSM, the massive annual get-together of the mobile phone industry. Actually it’s now called something completely forgettable — Mobile World Congress — so everybody still calls it 3GSM. I hear peals of laughter in the background. What? Pajama Entrepreneur at the cellular industry’s annual gathering? After posting more than my [...]

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