Archive for: October 2010

From Where is this thing going?: The mobility I want:
Have you ever had a personal assistant? or a “Secretary”, as they used to be called some time ago?

That is exactly what I would like to have in my mobile device …

A couple of snippets from Is Android Evil? | VisionMobile :: blog. First, on why the handset makers love Android:
[In] an Android handset, most of the OEM budget goes into differentiation; compare that to Symbian where most of the OEM …

From Developer Joe Hewitt Tears Into Android’s Definition Of “Open”:
[Developer Joe] Hewitt kicked off [a series of tweets about Android's definition of "open"] with a question: “How does Android get away with the “open” claim when the source isn’t public …

From the comments of Why We’re Not Reviewing the Nokia N8.
Hi Matt, this is Anna from Nokia PR.

Matt, thanks for your opinion. We’re sorry you have chosen not to review the N8, and it’s ok that you don’t like our …

I was reading a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies about smartphones and mobile data plans (warning: PDF link). While people are really interested in smartphones, people aren’t really thinking about the data plans that go …

While the prices aren’t exactly where I’d like them to be, it appears the major US mobile operators are finally starting to get a clue about mobile data services and are at least offering something approaching reasonable. I realize there are …

“We are Apples largest customer in Australia, yet with Apple we are still working through some areas in how to work,” [Telsra chief executive David] Thodey told a lunch held by the Australia-Israel Business Council last week.
via Cracks form …

In OTIs study, we researched cell phone voice, text and data services for prepaid, regular postpaid, and unlimited postpaid plans provided by prominent cell phone carriers in 11 countries. We consider unbundled services using rates available to individual consumers.[1]  To …

From Schneier on Security: Stuxnet:
Computer security experts are often surprised at which stories get picked up by the mainstream media. Sometimes it makes no sense. Why this particular data breach, vulnerability, or worm and not others? Sometimes its obvious. In …