Tag: Rant

The original stylus was a crude hunting and gathering tool used by Neanderthals. A million years later, little has changed.

May 4, 2009 6:31 pm to 10:31 pm Mobile Monday Silicon Valley was fantastic this evening. There was a huge turnout on an uncharacteristically rainy San Francisco evening for the Location-Aware app demo evening. Skyhook Wireless kindly underwrote the bar and gave a pitch at the beginning of the series of presentations, outlining their rather excellent range of location services available to mobile developers

I came across this rather nifty proof-of-concept video from the Google Latitude team. Latitude, if you’re not familiar with it, is an add-on to Google Maps that (amongst other features) overlays an avatar of your friends on Google Maps. So if you’re out-and-about you can see their location.

I’ve just come back from a brilliant event produced by AdMob .

What unmitigated dickhead is running music publishing at EMI Music at the moment? I heard a track on the radio last week. Rare because...

Yesterday whilst I was sat at the top of some monument in Rome, having taken a break from filming the MIR Show with Dan...

I was reading through a press release about the Nokia 5800 'Tube' handset. Over a million of them shipped. Good news. My issue? Have...

I am currently uploading a 120mb MIR Show video at the whopping WHOPPING average speed of 18.5k per second. Fluck all use that...

I logged into iTunes the other day and was prompted by a huge message at the top of my screen to consider going 'DRM-free'. DRM-free...

I haven't seen Lee Wilkins in the flesh for a good few years. He's been out in Romania pursuing numerous opportunities in the...

Stop it. Stop it, stop it, stop it. STOP using @reply unless it's in a fully formed sentence. Stop sending me utter, utter bollocks. Twitter is not for...

Carol Bartz has taken the helm at the once-great Yahoo. Described as a long time 'senior player' in Silicon Valley, she is apparently made...

Hundreds of emails have come flying in. "Dear Ewan, I see you are attending Mobile World Congress." Yes, I say out loud as I read on. "I...

I’m not sure if you’re already aware, but Ewan has sent me a first generation iPhone for me to have a play around with....