I’ve had my BlackBerry Bold relaxing for the last few days whilst I have been traveling from place to place. I’m doing my best to avoid rewarding my operator(s) for offering really poor data roaming rates by refusing, where possible, to use them. I’ve therefore managed to avoid using the Bold for a few days [...]
Archive | October, 2011
“A magazine is an iPad that doesn’t work”
A stimulating statement there — a magazine is an iPad that doesn’t work — however as this post over at Gizmodo points out, the statement has merit as far as one particular 1-year-old girl is concerned. As the video’s anonymous creator notes, for this 1-year-old girl, “A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.” [...]
Wait, you can’t DELETE photos from the iOS photostream?
I do have to wonder at Apple, sometimes. When the company introduced the reverse scroll in OS X Lion, so that all of a sudden I had to drag downwards instead of up (or whatever), I did have to think twice about the validity of it. I eventually trained myself, but I know quite a [...]
How useful are you finding iOS 5′s notifications screen?
I’ve had a day with the iOS 5 notifications bar now and I’m split. Half the time I’m delighted that it fixes one of the stupidest issues with the iPhone by putting notifications all in one place. The other half of the time, I’m furious that, in order to find anything out, I have to [...]
3:10 to Yuma — today’s FilmToGo movie
Just a quick reminder to the Orange customers reading — you can download the 3:10 to Yuma movie courtesy of your operator today. You’ll need to be quick as midnight is approaching. It’ll only cost you 35p. I quite enjoyed this one when it came out last year I think so I’ve downloaded it again [...]
Deploy your Android or HTML5 to the PlayBook in 5 minutes at DevCon
If you’ve got an Android app or an HTML5 app that you’d like to see working on the PlayBook, I strongly recommend checking out this rather swish offer from the DevCon team. All you need to do is turn up on site with the app code (A “COD” file bundle, whatever the hell that is) [...]
Everything Everywhere removes 22 senior executives — good news, I think
Mobile News is reporting that 22 senior executives are to go at Everything Everywhere. I think this is good news — anything that will help the company move faster and quicker, without too many things being ‘stuck in committee’ can only be positive: Everything Everywhere CEO Olaf Swantee continues restructure policy axing 22 senior positions [...]
RIM’s outages were bad, but I think the immediate damage is limited
It’s a total unmitigated arse when your technology doesn’t work as expected. I’ve got an email account at one of the companies I consult with regularly. They’re a top FTSE 100 firm and they were seriously challenged by this week’s BlackBerry outage. One of the implications of the continued outage was that the company’s help [...]
WiFi hotspot services in airports: Totally fracking rubbish
I’ve been doing a bit of travel recently and that’s exposed me to the utter shit that is a modern WiFi hotspot. I don’t remember them being this bad. Every single one I’ve used recently has been a pile of stinking shite. I’ve ended up using my BlackBerry’s EDGE connection rather than dick about with [...]
This iOS 5 update will delete all of your apps, media and purchases… thanks
This is not quite the message I wanted to receive when I clicked ‘update’ on iTunes here in Houston this afternoon: Apparently it’s going to kill everything on the phone apart from the contacts and email messages. Joy. Hardly useful when I’m thousands of miles away from my main computer. I think I’ll need to [...]
The danger for RIM: Compounding negative press stories
I’m a big, big fan of RIM, makers of BlackBerry. Huge fan. Their devices and their services irrevocably changed my life for the better. In today’s fast paced, always-on connected environment, it’s super-important for RIM to continue to manage their reputation aggressively and offensively (as apposed to playing defence — or, in some cases not [...]
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