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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Well done Vodafone

As I wrote yesterday, my N95 8GB died. Ouch. Speaking to Vodafone’s customer service was quick and efficient, and I was offered the option of a repair via the shop who could give me a loaner, or have a courier send me a replacement refurbed device. Yesterday I was favouring the former, but today realised that the latter is much more efficient as I’ve still not managed to escape the gravitational pull of the office.

So called in to a very helpful agent who arranged the details, and then I received a text immediately confirming what I had to do in prep. What was particularly encouraging was that the agents didn’t try and argue with me - they believed it was dead and not that I was being daft.

So full marks for customer service.

On which note, yesterday I received  a call from Vodafone’s Automatic Viccy who wanted to ask me how it had been for me - all done by keying “1 for unsatisfied to 5 for very satisfied”. I would have prefered an SMS or a mobile internet site, but I suppose this might work for a wider range of audience.

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