vodafone in comment and analysis
3GSM Diary, day 3: Speed and a GSM wristwatch
Comment It's the second day of the show proper and the crowds at the Fira conference centre are just as large, packing in to listen to the great and the good of mobile speak - among today's keynotes were Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin... [14 Feb 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 1: The biggest event in mobile...
Comment Vodafone has also just officially announced its play for Indian operator Essar, and the world's biggest operators are thought to be clubbing together to create a mobile search engine: an announcement likely to be as... [12 Feb 2007]
Leader: Will the iPhone shake-up the mobile world?
Leader Should such a deal be struck, it could prove problematic for Orange and Vodafone, whose relationships with the phone flogging chain are somewhat fractious. When Apple launched the iPhone in the US it didn't share the... [29 Jan 2007]
Editor's Blog: Nicholas Carr and Trevor Baylis
Comment However, he contrasted that with his previous role as UK IT director at mobile giant Vodafone where technology was core to the business and the IT organisation worked to rigid, five-year investment strategies regardless... [22 Nov 2006]
Upwardly mobile: What do silver surfers want?
Comment Vodafone is one of the first in the UK to take the baby boomers seriously in mobile terms. Vodafone's token effort is the - wait for it - Simple, a device meant to be - yes, you've guessed it - simple. [01 Nov 2006]
Upwardly Mobile: Sente and sensibility
Comment Figures from ITU show that two years ago, mobile penetration was trumping that of fixed in Uganda - and, according to Vodafone, the country's mobile phone penetration stands at four per cent. Welcome to the first... [25 Oct 2006]
Telecoms trends
AS Analysis Orange was spurred into offering its own 'free' connectivity plan, O2 bought an ISP and even grande dame Vodafone committed to reselling BT's DSL. Representatives from Motorola, Nokia, Vodafone and other... [25 Sep 2006]
Q&A: Seven years of Agenda Setters
AS Analysis Chris Gent, CEO of Vodafone AirTouch, won it - the first British winner. Launched in 2000, the annual silicon.com Agenda Setters poll aims to create a who's who of the individuals bossing the tech industry.silicon.com... [25 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: The Da Vinci coda
Comment He used an HP laptop, a Vodafone 3G datacard (I think) and Google. I was watching a programme last night - and let me say upfront that I was tired out, lying on the sofa, too lazy even to reach out and change channel. [22 Aug 2006]
Tech brands getting a sporting chance
Comment Shirt sponsorships, which can cost as much as £15m per season, have also proven popular with companies such as O2, Samsung, Siemens, T-Mobile and Vodafone in recent years and the appeal of consumer-oriented brands is... [24 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for mobile search
Comment If the number of potential services is limited to those available from a particular mobile operator's portal - O2 Active, Orange World, T-zones or Vodafone Live - the problem is less complex. Mobile content needs to move... [13 Apr 2006]
Leader: Bland brands in the UK?
Leader But you have to get to 14 to find Europe's top marque, Nokia, and Vodafone leads the UK charge at 16. The deal that has seen Virgin Mobile combine with the TV, phone and broadband businesses of NTL:Telewest, itself a... [05 Apr 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile VoIP - not so disruptive
Comment The BT Fusion service is more to do with Vodafone's capabilities than BT's. In fact, far from being a disruptive technology, it's firmly in the roadmap of most operators, says Anthony Plewes. The intrusion of Microsoft... [20 Mar 2006]
Leader: Vodafone's Japanese sale
Leader Over the weekend it emerged that an agreement between Vodafone and Softbank, for the former to sell Vodafone KK to the latter, is very much on the cards. There is no way of knowing whether... [06 Mar 2006]
Radioactive: Is mobile IM bad for business?
Comment Fifteen key international operators, including Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile and Vodafone, joined with the GSM Association in announcing a programme dubbed 'personal IM' to interconnect their mobile instant messaging... [21 Feb 2006]
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