Category: Interviews
Wednesday interview: Maryam Bazargan of New Street Media talks in-game advertising
When you play Pro Evolution 6, you're probably thinking about working the ball out to your nippy winger, trying to organise your flat-footed back four, or wondering how much your friendship will be damaged if you slap the joypad out…
Tuesday interview: Intuitive Media's Robert Hart on educational social networking
With all the hoo-ha over the dangers posed for kids by sites like MySpace and Bebo – you know, cyber-bullying, paedophiles lurking on every virtual corner, etc – it’s easy to forget the positive aspects of social networking for children. One company that hasn’t is Intuitive Media, which is trying to bring the benefits without some of the risks feared by many parents.
Intuitive Media is an education firm providing what it describes as protected online learning communities for children. It currently runs two main communities: SuperClubsPLUS for kids aged 6-12, and GoldStar Cafe, for ages 11-14. They’ve signed up over 120,000 children so far in the UK, along with over 12,000 teachers.
Vodafone launches new call plans and advice for small businesses
Sky has a new show TV show under the name of The Big Idea, claimed to be the UK's largest-ever search to discover the next great British invention or business idea (with the winner pocketing £100,000 to carry it…
One Minute Interview: XBox 360 on Windows Mobile
I speak to John Starkweather at Microsoft about the future of Xbox gaming, and how it's being developed to work with Windows Mobile. Hear about gaming on the move, and beaming your gaming creds to all and sundry when you're…
Monday interview: MTV's Angel Gambino on mobile social networking
When researching my post last week on mobile social networking, I canvassed several industry bigwigs to get their views on how well the likes of MySpace and Bebo would translate to mobile. Helpfully, Gmail chose to file the response…
Friday interview: dotMobi's Neil Edwards slams the critics of the .mobi domains
The world of domain names has seen its fair share of controversy, and one of the hottest recent debates concerns the new .mobi domain, which covers mobile internet sites. It's run by mobile Top Level Domain Ltd (mTLD, or…
Wednesday interview: Weblo founder Rocky Mirza on social networking for profit
Relationships, eh? When they start, it's about establishing a connection and getting on well. But at some point, they always become more about money. Which is an only slightly contrived way of introducing Weblo, a new virtual world where…
Monday interview: mobile advertising expert Russell Buckley
Mobile advertising is going to be increasingly high-profile in the next few years. And I don't mean Crazy Frog or those baffling Phones 4 U TV commercials. Advertising on your mobile has so far been largely restricted to annoying…
Wednesday interview: Michael Kornhauser of ALK on why satnav is going mobile
Could the next killer app for mobile phones be satellite navigation? ALK certainly hopes so. The company has been selling its CoPilot Live application for PDAs and smartphones for some time now, but in the latter case it's always…
Friday interview: Rok's Bruce Renny talks mobile VoIP
It's part two of Tech Digest's interview with Bruce Renny from ROK. Following Wednesday's focus on FreeBeTV, the company's new mobile TV service, today it's time to talk about Viper, which ROK launched a couple of weeks ago touting…
