Despite the hype, fixed-mobile convergence hasn’t made huge inroads in the market, for a variety of reasons. But when I was at my local Target store yesterday, I noticed these: It’s a little unit from GE that you plug your standard home phone into, and connect to your mobile via Bluetooth, turning your mobile connection [...]
Archive | June, 2008
Dear AP: You Don’t Get To Make The Rules
I don’t really like to blog about copyright and whatnot much as I think it gets pretty tedious. That said, this stuff the Associated Press is trying to pull is a bit much. Last week it got pissed off that a site called the Drudge Retort was posting links to AP stories with a cut-and-pasted [...]
Music to the Ears
New Media Age carries a story about a survey that found that 63% of young people (14 – 24 year olds) ‘fessed up to downloading music illegally. Apart from almost certainly proving that the other 37% are lying, it does demonstrate pretty well that the music industry’s problems are ongoing and will almost certainly get [...]
Welcome to the Year 2000
One of my speaking gigs last week was EDM08 in London. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay for long, but I did catch a very interesting presentation by O2′s Mike Short, currently VP of R&D. I first met Mike back in ZagMe days and he’s always good value. In his presentation, he showed a couple of really [...]
Sky TV
I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks, so apologies for the lack of blogging. Among other things, it feels like I’ve been commuting to the US, with a trip to the West Coast and another to New York. In between, I was interviewed by Sky News, so if you’re curious to see what I [...]
That Reminds Me To Tell You About My Wednesday Morning…
It’s not just me that thinks Nokia’s a-bag-a-shite – SMS Text News: I often feel that I am the only chap on the planet calling out Nokia for piss poor innovation and ridiculous, ridiculous lack of attention to really important elements %u2014 especially when I%u2019m regularly coming into contact with Symbian fanatics. Ewan’s post about [...]
Local Services For Local People
Some researchers from Northeastern University have been tracking the whereabouts of some 100,000 mobile users and found some interesting results. Many stories about the research have focused on the privacy implications, but we’ll ignore them for the time being, and focus instead on the main finding: that most people in the study (from what’s identified [...]
Farewell Laura
The Mobile Marketing Association today announced Laura Marriott’s resignation as President, after 3 incredibly successful years at the helm of the organisation. While it’s a great shame, as she’s done a really fabulous job, I completely understand her decision to get a life back as the travel and demands of the role are really demanding. [...]
Mobile Linux Prospects Looking Down?
A new report from ABI about mobile Linux is getting a decent amount of press today, claiming that nearly a quarter of smartphones will be running Linux in 2013. That’s great, but… first, there’s no indication of what ABI considers to constitute the smartphone market, nor how big it is or will be in 2013. [...]
Another UI Over WinMo?
I noted last month the growing number of manufacturers that are developing their own UI to run on top of Windows Mobile. Today, IntoMobile pointed out another, Glide, from ASUS. ASUS introduces its own Windows Mobile UI – Glide: Let’s see, HTC has its own UI (TouchFLO and TouchFLO 3D) running on top of Windows [...]
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