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Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week being no exception… Another item on the...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek reflects on what it is that made him the sad little geek he is today. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged...

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment Written at a hotel in Taunton, UK, and dispatched via another free wi-fi service that needed no password - a trend that seems to be catching on The competition for antenna space on our laptops and mobile devices is getting critical.

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment The auction of the last great chunk of US broadcast spectrum gets under way in the new year. This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield.

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07

Round-Up So, after much waiting, gnashing of teeth and an absurd amount of press attention the iPhone finally makes its UK debut today. Hooray. The device could turn out to be the most revolutionary product launch since the wheel.

Tags: yahoo, google, iphone, round-up

[09 Nov 2007]

Minority Report: Buy the iPhone philosophy...

Comment The UK is about to get its hands on the iPhone. Seb Janacek looks to the US for clues about the device's likely impact. The iPhone party has arrived in Europe. Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a flying visit to London last month to announce the launch of...

Tags: apple, ipod touch, iphone

[05 Oct 2007]

At sea over convergence?

Comment There are many ways of tackling fixed-mobile convergence. Quocirca's Rob Bamforth simplifies the problem with a marine analogy. The mobile industry is regularly referred to as an ecosystem. So one way of discriminating between approaches is to use...

Tags: mobile, convergence, fmc

[21 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 10.08.07

Round-Up Steve here. I'm glad you guys could join me today - because I've got something pretty cool to tell you. That's right. In fact, you're not going to believe it. It's really cool. It's un-bel-ive-able! And no I'm not talking about the new iMac...

Tags: next generation, advertising, microsoft, william gibson

[10 Aug 2007]

Editor's Blog: Define this

Comment Definitions are everything in technology. But usually in the name of marketing, though sometimes out of confusion or for cultural reasons, they vary too much. One way of defining technology types is through long and often complex standardisation...

Tags: mobile tv, rim, blackberry

[23 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: My home wi-fi network - in search of fun

Comment When it comes to IT at home, it's nearly all about work for me. My wife is self-employed, so I'm sort of her IT guy. And yes, she's still in business. When I use tech at home, it's normally a case of logging on to our corporate systems over...

Tags: network security, wep, wi-fi

[17 May 2007]

How mobile is your corner shop?

Comment Forget clipping vouchers out of magazines - why not get coupons sent straight to your mobile phone? Convenience stores are getting involved with a mobile phone-based loyalty scheme but, asks Julian Goldsmith, who will the real winners be?

Tags: retail

[13 Apr 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: What we can learn from the death of T-One

Comment Just as a wave of new converged fixed-mobile services are being announced in the UK, Germany's biggest telco has killed off its own FMC product. Jo Best takes a look at what FMC services need to survive.

Tags: fmc, upwardly mobile, bt fusion, deutsche telekom

[27 Mar 2007]

Leader: €12 for roaming data? Could try harder

Leader At this year's CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Vodafone announced it will offer a flat-rate data plan for European roaming users - all the data you can eat, including web and email usage, for €12 per day.

Tags: mobile roaming, data roaming rates, roaming, europe

[15 Mar 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: How the iPhone changed the world

Comment When Apple unveiled the iPhone, it set the whole mobile industry talking - not just about the device but about the unusual agreement between Apple and mobile operator Cingular. Jo Best says it's the pact between these two tech heavyweights that...

Tags: iphone, upwardly mobile, at&t, apple

[12 Mar 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: What I learnt in Barcelona

Comment While working at this year's 3GSM tradeshow, Jo Best got a lesson in what every business traveller knows - getting online via wi-fi or 3G leaves much to be desired. So what's the answer? When the mobile industry gets together, it does it in...

Tags: mobile broadband, upwardly mobile, wimax, 3gsm

[23 Feb 2007]

Leader: Roaming rates - more work needed

Leader It is fitting that in this week of the annual 3GSM World Congress a major mobile network operator has chosen to announce lower data-roaming rates. T-Mobile is halving its prices. But looking more broadly, one thing is clear - more needs to be done.

Tags: data roaming rates, business travel, mobile roaming, t-mobile

[14 Feb 2007]

3GSM Diary, day 3: Speed and a GSM wristwatch

Comment It's the second day of the show proper and the crowds at the Fira conference centre are just as large, packing in to listen to the great and the good of mobile speak - among today's keynotes were Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and Sanjiv Ahuja, head of...

Tags: 3gsm

[14 Feb 2007]

3GSM Diary, day 2: Handsets at dawn

Comment It's Monday and Barcelona is preparing to welcome an estimated 60,000 people to the 3GSM World Congress. The first day sees a lot of vendor press conferences, showcasing all the latest and greatest devices.

Tags: 3gsm

[13 Feb 2007]

10 mobile trends: Should you care?

Comment On the verge of this year's big 3GSM show in Barcelona, silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?

Tags: m2m, mobile payments, hsdpa, device management

[09 Feb 2007]

Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?

Comment I've written and read a lot in the past few years about how the 2008 Beijing Olympics are very much about China's coming of age in terms of being a modern economy and in certain areas like technology.

Tags: epassports, 2012 olympics, 3g

[07 Feb 2007]

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