vodafone in comment and analysis
Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment But Arun Sarin's imminent departure from Vodafone may well have a wider significance, argues Natasha Lomas. Telecoms grandee Arun Sarin is to retire as Vodafone's CEO after five years in the job. First, that being a mobile operator - even one as... [29 May 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment At this year's Mobile World Congress Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin admitted the rest of the industry was now playing catch-up with Apple following the widespread adulation of touchscreen display and feature integration. [17 Apr 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin wants to lock on to such innovations to avoid just being a "bitpipe". Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! [20 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08
Round-Up Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin says the iPhone has raised the bar by designing phones that people actually want to use, which is an interesting concept for the industry. In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and... [15 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment Arun Sarin of Vodafone and Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo are heading up the GSMA's bill, with China Mobile's Wang Jianzhou and Cisco's John Chambers rounding it off. Conway makes way for Vodafone's chief Arun Sarin - who takes the talk smoothly off... [13 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.09.07
Round-Up Either way, Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin is pretending he doesn't care about stupid Apple and their stupid iPhone. Meanwhile, in other iPhone-related news, another jilted girlfriend that Jobs left on the other side of the Atlantic seething... [21 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment Past number ones include Ray Ozzie (now at Microsoft), Ashley Highfield (BBC), Eric Schmidt (Google), Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, Chris Gent (Vodafone) and former AOL top dog Steve Case - remember him? [13 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.07.07
Round-Up No, the Round-Up has called in every debt, favour and out-and-out blag to net this tasty treat to dangle before your eager eyes, dear readers, so get ready to sit up and beg… (Strictly speaking, the Round-Up can't take all the credit - and should... [20 Jul 2007]
Darrell Stein
CIO Profile In 2001 Stein joined mobile operator Vodafone where he was UK IT director before coming full circle back to take the top IT job at M&S. A rising young star in his field, the 39-year-old Darrell Stein landed the role of IT director at the famous UK... [06 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Why mobile DRM must die
Comment Speaking to Vodafone recently about the plans to launch mobile advertising, the operator said it had experimented with giving away games that included advertising for free, as well as offering them as pay content. [01 May 2007]
Leader: €12 for roaming data? Could try harder
Leader At this year's CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Vodafone announced it will offer a flat-rate data plan for European roaming users - all the data you can eat, including web and email usage, for €12 per day. [15 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 9: An auto-rickshaw ride and a catwalk show
Comment Then I'm back to the hotel to check email and, as the man on the ground, even write up a story on the big news of the day - Vodafone's bid for local mobile operator Hutchison Essar. Monday 12 February - Pune [12 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?
Comment Vodafone Netherlands is the latest to come up with such an offering. However, where Vodafone Netherlands differs from its British cousins is in its attempt to take mobile advertising to the business market, rather than consumers. [27 Feb 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What I learnt in Barcelona
Comment It belongs to Vodafone and I'm just trying it out on loan. While the long range wireless broadband tech has got more than its fair share of detractors, last week Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin warned that WiMax posed a threat to the mobile industry - so... [23 Feb 2007]
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 and Sanjiv Ahuja, head of... [14 Feb 2007]
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