if you live in or around London we are blessed with a slew of wonderful, cheap or free events for mobile. there is so much to cover, so much to know, so many opinions to consider. I work for IBM and I advise them that as IBMers we should be interacting with people […]
January 30, 2013
I love this, the verge is reporting on an screen that you put on your thumb, and it shows what is underneath. brilliant. I am sure the prototype is all clunky, however if they pull this off then it could extend to a glove, useful for our chilly winders. the rise of flexible screens, and […]
January 23, 2013
Should have written this a couple of weeks ago, when the CES hype was at its highest, however here are the things that caught my eye. I should point out that I did not attend the event, nor did I go deep trawling to find all the obscure things that get launched, so if […]
January 16, 2013
There’s gold in them thar hills ! Right now businesses of all shapes and sizes are rushing to create mobile apps. This begs the question when should an app be mobile ? or at least to have a mobile part to it. What is gold and what is iron pyrites ? well here is an […]
January 16, 2013
If you are going to provide an API that will be consumed by Mobile devices (apps, browsers etc) then here are a few things to consider, mostly these are simply logical functional requirements. It assumes that you are looking for an efficient API, that it will be accessed through a service gateway, and not directly from the […]
January 13, 2013
Here is a mindmap of what a smartphone can do. will update as more things come to mind, do you think I’ve missed anything ? and look at the number of radios. quite a few.
January 12, 2013
So are you wondering how to decide which type of app you should build, or is your client ? I saw this decision tree in a piece of work (for which I have no names, so cannot attribute properly, if this is yours please do tell so I can put your name in lights. […]
January 12, 2013
Joe Rabin provided some very useful data, and I thought it worth repeating. Joe has been a consultant and technical leader in the mobile space since at least the turn of the century, and is a the CTO of Sponge, an agency dedicated to Mobile, and by all accounts provides great service (I’m not a […]
January 12, 2013
I see that t-Mobile USA have announced a couple of interesting things in the last few days. Firstly that they have a new tariff for $70 that is all you can eat data (unlimited for all intents) and bundled with that is unlimited voice and SMS (test) as well. Seems like a turn around that […]
January 10, 2013
It’s a question I get asked from time to time, why are 3G phones, smartphones, so rubbish with their battery life ? and now a days I also get asked if 4G will make it any better ? To understand this we need to think a little about how phones use their radio, because simply […]
January 31, 2013
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