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Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs

Comment Isn't it time to revive this two-tier system if mobile phone usage is to rear its ugly, boorish shaved head in passenger aircraft? This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with an ASBO?

Tags: rim, blackberry, nhs, mobile

[15 May 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment Like every other market, Microsoft is there too with its own Windows Mobile operating system and platform. The device has managed to invigorate the market with its core value proposition of mail, phone, music player and mobile internet but little...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment At this year's Mobile World Congress Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin admitted the rest of the industry was now playing catch-up with Apple following the widespread adulation of touchscreen display and feature integration.

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of sale systems, mobile phones and security systems. Similarly, the designers of mobile devices that assume...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Comment But not surprisingly, given the products and services Nortel sells, all things networking and mobile are also high on Bandrowczak's list of priorities. I don't need to have my own email system. Being the CIO for a tech vendor can often be something...

Tags: bandrowczak, cio, nortel

[01 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up The airline is spending a cool $27m kitting out its entire fleet of planes with an in-flight mobile communications system. The first travel-themed report of the week is news that Ofcom has waved a couple of table tennis racquets in the air and...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment Emirates rings up first in-flight mobile call But did this last island really need a mobile phone facility? A bit like the captain of a sinking ship who, instead of doing something that might stop the ship sinking, sets up a system whereby the...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were no colour services, nor were videos, PCs, mobile phones or broadband available. Payment is ensured by a tracking system linked to the TV sales process and by detector vans that...

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…

Comment Perhaps the technology should be referred to as something other than a mobile phone. Internet on mobile - rubbish. The next killer app on mobile, to gain proper share, is sat-nav. As the bloke in PC World told me - "Vista is the best operating...

Tags: mobile, data, vista, views

[06 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up The ambitious vision of the mobile's future even tops the effort that managed to get a text message to the top of Mount Everest. Nasa and the British National Space Centre are preparing to test a mobile phone network for the moon, (no, not this one…).

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[22 Feb 2008]

Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam

Comment As the number of mobile email users has grown rapidly in recent years - along with their increasing dependency - the impact of any loss of service is greatly magnified. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology, says Rob Bamforth - at...

Tags: blackberry, pdas, email, mobile

[21 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment So when will we see the "Mobile Advertising Preference Service? Mobile ads: Free stuff worth a tiny intrusion? Seems a safe bet that it would be higher than the figures for either laptops or mobile phones.

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment They may be willing to browse or watch television from their mobile phones but they have plenty of options available. Mobile telephony has long been engaged in a relatively fruitless search for new killer applications.

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…

Comment I find all this talk and statistics regarding mobile phones while driving getting boring and annoying. Why can't motor manufacturers install a device inside the car or cab of a lorry, to prevent a signal from a mobile being received or sent?

Tags: hmrc, ebay, vista, driving

[07 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment The competition for antenna space on our laptops and mobile devices is getting critical. It is rapidly heading our way as more and more wireless facilities are included on laptops and mobile devices. Each requires its own antenna space - yet the...

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008 ¦ The best of 2007 ¦ Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers ¦ 2008...

Tags: apple, mobile phone, broadband, vista

[03 Jan 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment Not bad going for a company with no track record in mobile phone devices. The B team delivered a system that, while far quicker and more elegant than previous versions of the already mature OS X, was buggier than any other release in recent memory.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

The End of Year Weekly Round-Up: 21.12.07

Round-Up Google is heading up a consortium of organisations, including most of the major players in the global mobile industry. They've joined forces to develop a standards compliant platform for developing mobile apps.

Tags: hmrc, 2007, ballmer, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

Why must IT go green?

Comment Now the vendor community has the green bug: everything, from desktop PCs to mobile base stations, professes to be green. Many UK and EU regulations and campaigns demand greener businesses: the ethical disposal of equipment under the WEEE directive...

Tags: green, management, data centres, efficiency

[03 Dec 2007]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment M is for Mobile phones Abuse of this nature makes it really difficult to trace exactly who has accessed the data and it is a system that will inevitably be prone to security breaches. Organisations setting up biometric systems will need to be clear...

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

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