4 posts and columns on Carphone Warehouse

Mobile Devices Key For High Street Start Up

in Mobile on July 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

It is hard to describe a company that includes Sir Stuart Rose, former CEO of Marks and Spencer, and Charles Dunstone, founder of The Carphone Warehouse, one of the U.K.’s leading mobile phone retailers, among its backers as a “start up” but the Mobile Money Network is just that, and hopes to change the way consumers and retailers interact.

Mobilized Hits London: Blogging on the Wrong Side of the Road

in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT

Ahead of Nokia’s big meeting on Friday, Mobilized took some time to see (and photograph) some of the sights of London, including King’s Cross Station, a mobile phone shop and the Apple Store.

Google’s Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future

in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT

Taking the stage to kick off D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.

FiascO2, Redux

in News on July 9, 2008 at 9:17 am PT

The best laid plans of mice and men “gang aft agley,” as they say. iPhone carriers as well, apparently. Because British wireless carrier O2 claims it was well prepared for the iPhone pre-order event that felled its Web site earlier this week. It just wasn’t well prepared enough. In an email to customers today, O2 apologized for the failure of its online ordering system this week, explaining there was little it could do to prepare for the 13,000 orders per second that overwhelmed it. That’s right: 13,000 orders per second. O2′s full statement follows.