From Lubna Dajani’s column in Mobile Enterprise Mag:
“In this age of connectedness, however, it is expected that we shall move from a mobile telephony evolution to a mobile computing revolution. But beforethat happens there are a number of questions that need answers, especially since mobile computing is something entirely new to the masses. What is [...]

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On my current assignment, I spend much of my time sitting in a cube. The cubes are open plan. I’m not sure where the term “open plan” comes from, but if it’s supposed to suggest that in the absence of walls “the plan” is known openly and not concealed in a manager’s office, it was [...]

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On my current assignment, I cannot tell if I am truly awake or still dreaming. Things don’t seem to make much sense, yet no one around me, save a companion outsider, seems troubled by the trend. Am I the only one who thinks that so many documents and communications are incredibly incoherent? In fact, I [...]

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In the UK we have been hit by a huge billboard marketing campaign for the launch of I-Mode (on O2’s network). One of the adverts says “I am faster than WAP”.
Is this a repeat of O2’s disastrous “Surf the Net” campaign, the one that gave users the impression that WAP was just like using the [...]

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On the SIMPLE WG email list I had asked a question about how to block (politely) IM buddies during roaming, in order to avoid undue costs. Quite rightly, a commentator pointed out that perhaps the status should indicate “expensive calls”, not “roaming” and might also apply when the bundled minutes run out (I guess in [...]

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