Author: Stuart Dredge
Mobile ticketing could beat the touts, says Nokia
Nokia's high-profile mobile ticketing trial at last night's Guns'n'Roses gig went seemingly without a hitch, which is more than can be said for the band's arrival on stage. Billed to start at 9pm, Axl and chums didn't appear until 10.40pm….
Nokia's m-tickets meet Guns'n'Roses' RAWK in high-profile UK trial
This Wednesday night, fans attending Guns'n'Roses' Hammersmith Apollo gig won't just be raising their mobile phones to snap photos of Axl Rose or give absent friends a taste of the opening solo to Sweet Child O' Mine. They'll also be…
Mobile usage shock: women are emotional, men are egotistical
At last, an answer to why so many men's phones are stuffed with photos of their ex-girlfriends. One of the more entertaining sessions at today's MEX conference came from Tracy Ross from the University of Loughborough, who revealed a bunch…
Intrusive mobile advertising won't work, say experts
Does anyone really want to get advertising on their mobile phones? The mobile industry certainly hopes so, and is banking on ads as a big source of revenue in the years to come. Trouble is, mobiles are such personal devices,…
Mobile TV "crap" and "like bad porn" says, er, a user
Just one, anyway. As part of design firm Alloy’s presentation at today’s MEX conference, they showed a video snippet of one mobile user trying to watch TV on a 3G handset. And you could say they weren’t impressed: "That is…
What's needed for the perfect mobile MySpace
Why is MySpace such a runaway success? Because it's a jack of all trades, apparently. This, at least, was the message from Frederick Ghahramani of technology firm AirG, speaking at today's MEX conference in London. He was talking about mobile…
The Mobile Phone Of The Future is Here!
Design firm Alloy used today's MEX conference – it stands for Mobile User Experience – to unveil its latest concept phone, the Polygon. It's their attempt to design a handset that's actually half-decent for accessing multimedia content – whether it's…
Quake Legend John Carmack on Why Mobile Games Rule
What do you do after gifting the world Doom and Quake? If you're John Carmack, you dive headlong into the world of mobile games. Yes, after completing Doom 3, Carmack's first mobile project was Doom RPG, a reworking of the…
Some Game Developers Still Coming To Terms With Modern World
I was just walking by a stand at E3 when I saw this big poster. Is this really a game? And if so, who is it aimed at? And you thought late-night Football Manager sessions were sad. Yes, that is…
Galaga Plus Micropayments Equals Mobile Fun
Besides tempting Nicole Ritchie to appear at E3, Namco Networks and Sprint also made an intriguing announcement around micropayments – where you're charged small amounts of money in-game which are then added to your phone bill. The game in question…