To RIM: Don’t Change The Strategy, Change The Rules
A lot has been said and discussed about RIM’s downfall: indecisive leadership, inability to innovate at fast pace, and no clear path to recovery. I don’t disagree at all with the analysis and the interpretation of the situation, but I do disagree with the conclusion that many people are drawing and vehemently disagree with their [...]
QR Shopping
A fairly clever use of QR codes backed by financial results. QR codes are ugly, and IMO very limited, but they have a lot of potential to change the way we interact with data. I have a QR code on my business card and love it when people just scan it and hand it back. [...]
Lessening the Pain of Data Roaming With Onavo
I am in the Belgian city of Brussels at the moment, which means that my mobile phone is ‘roaming;’ off my UK network and being charged a scary amount of money to access data. Travelling to Europe is less scary than going elsewhere in the world, as I’m ‘only’ charged about £3 per Mb here. [...]
Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just [...]
Bottom Of The Pyramid – Nokia’s Second Act
The two-third of world’s 4.6 billon mobile users live in the emerging markets. Millions of these users live below the poverty line and are part of the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Nokia is the market leader in these emerging markets, at least for now…
Android Phone Without Google Voice? Yes, But What a Deal! You Get What You Pay for @ Virgin Mobile.
News of Virgin Mobile starting to sell an Android phone is disruptive, to say the least. Not because of the phone – it’s a dinky little Samsung Intercept – but because of the plans. They are all contract-free, and start at $25. The basic level only gives you 300 minutes to talk, but it includes [...]
Generations
HP 17” monster (good desktop workhorse) Dell Vostro 13” iPad HTC EVO ? Of course it did not really started with the 17 incher… but rather around here. P.S. You’ve probably heard that the Kin got Kanned …
Simple Phone (for Seniors): when Less is More
There’s hardly a week without a major superphone announcement. Yes, smartphones are so last year, with the iPhone 4, HTC EVO, Samsung Galaxy S..etc we are now in the era of superphones. I just wonder what’s next? Could it be … simple phones? The official terminology for these is feature-phones, but they are anything but… [...]
On Those Android Superphones Again
Wow, for not being a gadget-blog, we’re spending quite a bit of attention on Smartphones. Are we turning into gadget-freaks? Like Ben, I’ve also received an Android-powered Sprint HTC EVO at the Google I/O Conference, and unlike him, I will be able to use it on Sprint, if I so chose. As a New [...]
Siri brings their Virtual Personal Assistant’s smarts to the iPhone
Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes [...]
AT and T starts blaming customers for downloading too much
Usually the first rule of business is that the customer is right always. Well maybe not so much according to AT&T, especially when it comes to the Iphone and data “hogs”. While unlimited plans usually mean unlimited, it looks like unlimited is soon going to mean caps, and extra charges for well, using your unlimited [...]
