I just found out that on 22nd of November, Google is going to discontinue their Gmail App for BlackBerry. This is a serious, serious problem for me. Ultra serious. Let me explain. I have 12GB of email in my personal Google Apps account. I have 7GB in my Mobile Industry Review Google Apps account. I [...]
Archive | November, 2011
Rakuten buys Kobo for $315m to grow downloadable media ecosystem
I’ve been giving Kobo a lot of thought recently. In the UK, they’ve recently embarked upon a seriously large advertising campaign, highlighting their all new readers and taking the fight to Amazon with a rather compelling WH Smiths distribution deal. And they’ve only recently announced some new hardware that looks particularly neat. What’s next for [...]
Check out the Power of One event this Friday
There’s a rather interesting event taking place this Friday at Battersea Power Station in London. It’s billed as day for developers and entrepreneurs to get together to celebrate how much the individual can active in today’s tech industry. When I think about it, things have changed dramatically than when I really got stuck into the [...]
Cannot Get Mail: The most annoying prompt on the iPhone?
Is this the most annoying prompt on the iPhone? I think so. For all it’s brilliant user experience innovations, you’d have thought they could have fixed this by version 5 of the operating system. For those unaware, if you are out of signal range and try checking your email, this prompt helpfully appears. If you [...]
Like all smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 800′s battery is just ‘ok’
I’ve been using the Nokia Lumia 800 for almost 4 days now, full time. Two of those days have been weekends so I’m not quite ready to give a week’s full summary yet. However what I can tell you is to set your expectations on the Lumia 800′s battery. This should be nothing new to [...]
I’m getting serious pain from Apple’s ‘services’.. enough to move away? Quite possibly.
I think my problem with Apple began when, without any flipping explanation at all, the latest version of their operating system required me, by default, to start scrolling upwards instead of downwards. Or was it the other way around? I can’t remember. I don’t care. I don’t want to care. This is why I pay [...]
Great feedback on Orange’s Pocket Landline service
A little while ago I picked up some news from Orange about their new Pocket Landline service. It enables anyone to add a landline number to their account that will then redirect (at no additional charge) to your phone number. Great if you want to look local but you don’t want the hassle of managing [...]
Do take a look at Dell’s Evolving Workforce report
I was delighted to be asked to participate in Dell’s Evolving Workforce research project. The future of ‘work’ is something that’s interested me since before I entered the work force. I always found getting on a train and going to a place of work rather 18th Century. Like being back in the industrial age. Fair [...]
Polycom’s RealPresence for iPad 2: Utterly brilliant
This morning I did a video conference call from my office at home in Ascot. My equipment was simply a BT Infinity internet connection along with an iPad 2 running Polycom’s all new RealPresence app. My colleague’s equipment? £15k’s worth of Polycom kit attached to a whopping 42″ screen. He even has a little control [...]
5,000 event WiFi users consumed 1TB of data in 4 days
I wanted to document this separately just so I’ve got a record of it. If you think that event WiFi is one of those ‘meh, maybe’ things that nobody bothers using, think again. Have a read of this: According to Max Wi-Fi, 989GB of data was transferred over the four days across nearly 5,000 devices. [...]
Industry working group formed to explore improving in-venue WiFi
A quick note for any WiFi equipment and service vendors and mobile operators concerned with the on-going development of in-venue WiFi. It’s a continual bugbear for everyone concerned. The users at big events want to be connected. Venues want to sell connectivity. Events organisers want to participate. Vendors want their kit to be used. Operators [...]
What’s the best way to mobilise an old content management system?
A colleague of mine popped by today to ask my advice on mobilising content management systems (“CMS”). His company has a really old, creaking CMS that they’re utterly delighted with. It works fine, they don’t want to change it, everything is perfect. The only thing it doesn’t do is ‘mobile’. It doesn’t recognise iPads, iPhones, [...]
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