As part of my ongoing search to find a new phone, those lovely folk at 3MobileBuzz recently sent me an HTC Hero to try out… It’s not the newest handset on the market granted, but I’ve heard good things about Android and after too many contract-based nightmares to count in the past – I’m a 3 [...]
Here we are again; I find myself deliberating which phone to move on to next. Post-E71 meltdown last year (RIP), I took a step backwards and reverted to my trusty N95 8GB. All was well, as I truly believe that it’s best content creator out there for a blogger. I loved being able to take such [...]
The first in a series of interviews with Founders/Managing Directors of mobile-centric businesses, we kick off with a brief chat with Nigel Waller. We’ll let Nigel tell you more about Movirtu below, but in brief, it’s a for-profit organisation that provides innovative mobile technology and business models for wireless telecommunication service providers servicing rural poor communities in [...]
Some of you may have seen the announcement last week that along with Phil Campbell and Rupert Howe, I’m going to be heading off to Helsinki (and a ‘yet to be confirmed’ second city) this Thursday for a bit of a European ‘Twestival Local’ tour. Twestival, in case you don’t live, breathe and sleep Twitter, is [...]
So, I’ve been playing with a BlackBerry Curve 8520 for the past week or so, and have had a somewhat interesting experience. For my sins, I’ll admit to you that I’ve never played with a BlackBerry for more than just a few minutes. I’ve always found the roller ball to be so horribly over sensitive, and [...]
I read a piece yesterday about the Million project in New York (named as such to reference the city’s 1.1 million students), which is an incentive-based scheme that rewards good behaviour and grades with mobile credit. In their words, the project aims to provide ’short-term incentives to motivate students, increase classroom participation and contribute to [...]
…but only on trial. You see, after a massive scheduling FAIL from yours truly, I missed the BlackBerry Curve 8520 launch yesterday. However, after being released in the US and Canada (then simultaneously in India), Research In Motion (RIM) has formally introduced its new handset to the UK market. The 8520 is a slightly cheaper, lighter (106 [...]
One of most impressive things I saw at TED Global 2009 last week was a live demonstration of mobile or ‘wireless’ electricity. It sounds incredible, and quite frankly, it was. After some insight into the core components of how and why, Eric Giler – CEO of WiTricity – used his company’s system to turn on an [...]
