I’m going to wade once again into one of Russell’s favorite topics, the separatista vs. convergionist debate. Whatever your feelings on the matter, I think we can all probably agree that there’s plenty of unnecessary convergence around. Like this handheld dictionary/MP3 player. Bet the folks at Franklin were left scratching their heads when these things [...]
Archive | May, 2008
Keeping Your OS an OS, and the UI the UI
HTC, best known for its wide range of Windows Mobile devices, today announced the Touch Diamond, an update to its Touch device released several months back. The Touch was notable because of the TouchFLO UI, an HTC-created, customized user interface that ran on top of Windows Mobile. The Diamond features a new version, called TouchFLO [...]
MEM08
This week I’m in Istanbul and Cannes – it’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. Seriously though, business travel lost any appeal it might have for me about 20 years ago. Last night I was at Mobile Monday in Istanbul, a thriving MoMo community, though pretty new to mobile advertising currently. But [...]
Flat-Rate Data Is Good… Free-Rate Is Better
Vodafone UK upped the competitive stakes today when it announced that its pay monthly customers will now get 500 MB of mobile data free each month as a part of their tariff. That’s awesome, and it will be interesting to see what impact this has in the market and on mobile data usage in the [...]
A Few Housekeeping Notes
If you’re one of our legions of RSS readers, you won’t have noticed anything, but for those of you who do stop by the MH site, you’ll see we’ve added a Flashy badge for the MH Twitter feed so you can follow us there (and there will be much more happening than “New blog post” [...]
New Computing Cycle
Mary Meeker is the legendary Morgan Stanley analyst (aka “Queen of the Net”), whose regular state-of-the-nation reports into internet trends are eagerly awaited among the digerati as being both insightful and visionary. One of the emerging trends she points to in her most recent work (get hold of a copy!) is about mobile: Mobile Internet [...]
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