Great rant on The Register: How the mobile phone biz lost the plot
Matt Mizenko sent me a link to a great rant article (click here) on The Register about how the mobile industry lost its groove (it’s getting stale, but I ...
Category: The Narrative
A Nokia Mac app! Hooray! Nokia Media Transfer is now out!
I’ve been using this for a while and it really is nice. It plugs a gap between my phone and my Mac. Dare I say Nokia is finally playing properly with Appl...
A computer that’s a mobile companion
The original Palms were billed as mobile companions to your computer. In those days, the fixed computer ruled and you used a Palm to carry your important comput...
A single letter change. A large attitude change.
As you probably know, I’ve been keeping a list of word ‘tired‘ words, words that I think are either mis-used, unclear, outdated, or something ...
Google Maps Mobile with GPS
I don’t know when this showed up, but we were expecting it. Hoo-boy, this sure changes the whole map and local search game. Now to download it and play wi...
If TypePad has Vox, what will Digg have?
A quick thought. I keep seeing the Web getting away from mass folksonomy type apps, or apps that are openly community driven. I see more interest in what some a...
Emotional attachment to technology and catalyst apps
Another day. Another discovered note. I heard Nick Jones from Gartner give a talk a while back. One thing he said regarding emerging markets that stuck with me ...
Engadget reports that over 200 million Nokia 1100s have been sold
I’ve written about this phone before – when it was picked as the billionth phone Nokia sold (in Nigeria), when Nokia announced that they had sold 10...
Shozu, and being done when there’s nothing left to remove
More from my long notes tail. For a while I wanted to write a long article on Cognima. Who? The guys who brought us Shozu, that’s who. Cognima had a reall...
A Mobile Lifestyle Manifesto – help add to it
One other note I want to clear out is a Mobile Lifestyle Manifesto I fancied writing. I kinda never finished it, though its been kicking around for a very long ...