Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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Vodafone Implosion

I can’t place calls and people can’t call me on my main Vodafone number today. Strangely enough I could call customer service, and with my special “spends too much” code I got straight through to a very helpful lady. She checked the internal info and it said all fixed, but she persisted, spoke to engineering and confirmed that there was a major network issue.

The use of a PIN to indentify yourself when calling Vodafone turns out to be a great blessing. It’s like checking in business class for a flight - no waiting and you get taken seriously first time. I’m less keen on having to tell the operator my PIN, but it’s not like it gives them any information that they can’t get anyway.

Clearly the problem is between them and the rest of the world, not the radio side of things as I’ve just received my monday Film Club MMS spam.

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