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Nokia’s six-screen “Agora” Social Visualizer launches internally

By Ewan on February 14, 2012 in Devices

Here’s an insight into how Nokia is harnessing the vast array of daily social media discussion about it’s brands into one single visual platform. They’ve called it “Agora” (after the Greek place of meeting) and they’ve made a little video showing it off. If you’re at all interested in social media, this will be of [...]

Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?

By Ewan on February 13, 2012 in Devices

I have been banging on about the Cisco Cius for a long, long time now. (See my post: “Cisco Cius: an iPad for the enterprise,” June 30th 2010.) Ever since the global networking giant announced their entry into the tablet market, I have been mentioning them in the same breath as Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry’s PlayBook [...]

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Is Tim Cook throwing chairs across his office right now after this iTV leak?

By Ewan on February 7, 2012 in Devices

Have a quick read and see what you think — it looks like someone working at these Canadian networks has been very, very leaky: In a rather unexpected twist, Canada’s largest newspaper and newspaper of record — The Globe and Mail — has published details of Apple’s upcoming iTV. According to the paper, Rogers and [...]

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Can the iPad revolutionise rural Agriculture? Yup…

By Ewan on January 31, 2012 in Devices

It’s simply fascinating to watch just how the iPad has been embraced by all sorts of seemingly unlikely industries. Fast Company reports below on the use of tablet technology to help support and manage rural agriculture. Yet another +1 for the iPad, eh? The iPad is a luxury toy. It’s also a powerful, adaptable tool. [...]

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Manufacturer that’s meant to be dead is #1 UK Smartphone vendor for the 2nd year running (That’s RIM, in case you were wondering)

By Ewan on January 30, 2012 in Devices

A bit of news in from RIM this afternoon that’s sure to a) keep the RIM UK team smiling and b) require a bit of a reset from the hordes declaring RIM-is-dead when it clearly isn’t: The latest results from data firm GfK show that BlackBerry® was the #1 selling smartphone in the British market [...]

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Convention Center saves $50k deploying iPads & FileMaker solution

By Ewan on January 26, 2012 in Devices

Here’s a useful case study on how the city of Austin’s Convention Center team have used iPads to replace their old paper folders. It’s yet another example of the consumerisation of the information technology departments. The city of Austin’s Convention Center waves goodbye to over-sized, overstuffed paper binders by deploying iPads and developing custom apps [...]

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If I write another “iPad 3 coming in February” post, will it make it come true?

By Ewan on January 18, 2012 in Devices

Rumour, rumour and thrice rumour. More people are repeating the rumours of last week. And the week before. So. It must be true. And somebody’s mate reckons it’s definitely true. Meanwhile, hold off on that iPad 2 purchase for a little while, right? You can read BGR’s latest ‘reportedly’ post here.

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My convoluted equipment swap with 3UK is almost complete

By Ewan on January 16, 2012 in Devices

If you’ve been following my interactions with 3UK, you’ll know that in order to get an iPhone 4S, I had to take out a new contract with them, rather than upgrade the existing iPhone 4 agreement that still has about 8 months left until it expires. This is all well and good. It’s just a [...]

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A competing Apple press event during MWC week would annoy a lot of people

By Ewan on January 16, 2012 in Devices, Operators, Opinion

Have a read of this text from The Telegraph — Matt has picked up the various iPhone 5 rumours flying around. The Mobile World Congress mention caught my attention: When users will find out for certain is also subject to debate; a March launch has been suggested for the iPhone by a number of blogs, [...]

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Siri controlling your home environment — I love it!

By Ewan on January 13, 2012 in Devices, Services

Here’s an example of Apple’s Siri being used to totally control a home environment — from heating to lighting to home entertainment. Have a watch of the video: Simply fantastic. We are really not that far away from being able to do the equivalent of Star Trek’s “COMPUTER: LIGHTS” commands. This real working example (covered [...]

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The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?

By Ewan on January 11, 2012 in Devices, Opinion

With fresh “IT’S COMING IT’S COMING [PROBABLY, SOME GUY SAID]” rumours flooding the internet about iPad 3, I sat back for a few moments to think: Do I want an iPad 3? The interesting reality? Yes. In fact — and I make no apologies for this — I don’t really care. I’ll have it. Next. [...]

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Must every hardware firm make it’s own iCloud clone?

By Ewan on January 9, 2012 in Devices

Yes. It’s the new rule, it seems… It is the dawning of the age of cloudquarius. Acer, in addition to a set of ultrabooks, just announced something it’s calling AcerCloud. This service, like iCloud, brings all of your content onto all of your devices, allowing you to “create, acquire and consume on different devices.” via [...]

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