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James Parton
James Parton

A Chartered Marketer, who is working hard to ensure Telco's suck just a little less everyday, James leads marketing for BlueVia, the new developer platform from Telefonica. In addition he is a global board member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum and chairs the Technology Market Interest Group of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, the worlds largest organisation for professional marketers. He is also a regular panellist, speaker, blogger, industry awards judge and lecturer. Throughout a 20 year career in the tech, web and mobile sectors, James has successfully developed and deployed over 25 major products and services, featuring 20 UK market firsts, including BlueVia, O2 Litmus, MMS, mobile video, mobile music downloads, and the UK DVB-H Broadcast TV trial in Oxford during 2005.

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Consumer

Popcorn Horror App Aims To Change Way Movies Are Made

05 Mar 2012 Features
Popcorn Horror App Aims To Change Way Movies Are Made
The idea of short form video content on mobile has been around for about a decade, but the secret to success content business is always the quality of the content, an audience,...
Software

"Hack Days are dead, long live Hack days!"

05 Mar 2012 News
"Hack Days are dead, long live Hack days!"
Thibaut Rouffineau from Wireless Industry Partnership joins me to talk Hack Days, the secrets of success for start ups, and the challenges for European companies vs American. We...
Business & Government

Rapportive: Bringing your social graph directly into to your inbox

10 Jan 2012 News
Rapportive: Bringing your social graph directly into to your inbox
This week I discovered and installed Rapportive into my Gmail inbox. The concept is simple; bring the context from various social networks right into your inbox, so when you...
Consumer

Interview With Yosi Taguri From Labgoo

25 Oct 2011 News
Interview With Yosi Taguri From Labgoo
I sat down with Yosi Taguri from the creators of Pah!, a voice controlled iOS game, and asked him a few questions for ITProPortal at DroidCon UK. You can read a short...
Consumer

A Quick Look At Pah! Or Why Piracy Is A Marketing Benchmark

24 Oct 2011 News
A Quick Look At Pah! Or Why Piracy Is A Marketing Benchmark
I first came across Yosi Taguri and the game he created called Pah! with his colleagues Eyal Shahar and Israel Roth when I travelled to Tel Aviv in May to attend the IMA's Apps...
Mobile & Telco

Interview with Neil Stanley, The Man Behind iHi

21 Sep 2011 News
Interview with Neil Stanley, The Man Behind iHi
As mentioned yesterday, I have fallen in love with iHi, a great little application that allows you to transform your iPhone into a powerful communication tool. I spoke with iHi...