..is an interesting blog attempting to “de-hype” some of the various claims made about wireless technology. It includes an interesting and useful discussion of Shannon’s Limit and why it should tell us that some claims for wireless “4G+” technologies are, at least according to known physical laws, plain crazy.

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You can try mobilSiteGalore who provide the “build you own site” service for dotMobi, or you can try the Beeweeb plug-in for Wordpress. I like Beeweeb’s Mobile TV client, but when it comes to mobile websites their plug-in requires a PhD just to install it and figure out if the hosting server has the required […]

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For a while I have spoken to various operators and supported various workshops trying to promote the idea of mash-ups and the general mashing and openness culture prevalent in many websites in these “2.0″ days. Such topics were also raised at the Telco 2.0 brainstorm, especially during the Digital Youth track, which I attended on […]

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Today I played with the new Sony handheld PC (the UX1).

As gadgets go, it is pretty neat to hold and to play with. Once upon a time I used to habitually buy these small form-factor devices. I once had a Toshiba Libretto. In fact, I used it with an early “WiFi” (Wavelan) card to mimic […]

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I recently purchased Tom Kelley’s book The Ten Faces of Innovation. I have only skimmed it so far, but I like it. With a line of thinking somewhat similar to Debono with his six thinking hats (a variant of which I have taught my kids, but using masks) Kelley has attempted to delineate types of […]

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The “2.0″ bandwagon continues, making Twitter seem important, along with the insistence from some commentators that the mobilization of developer goodies like AJAX is the future of mobile. Like I’ve said many times already, putting the word “mobile” in front of things like “Web 2.0″ and “AJAX” is pure hype. There isn’t anything essentially mobile […]

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There’s an interesting interview with a “Virtual Inventor” about mobile QR codes in virtual worlds.

The mind bristles with the possibilities at the other end of the scale from the Jitterbug (see last post). For those who don’t know, I spent a good deal of time in the early 90s researching “Mobile Virtual Reality”. Those were […]

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These guys are brilliant! Jitterbug is a mobile phone service provider that seems to have understood how to provide a useful service for the technically challenged amongst us. I use that term, as I think it’s more appropriate than Zimmer-frame-bound or any other ageist stereotype that misses the point about easy-to-use technology. There’s plenty of […]

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A wander away from wireless….
I don’t go anywhere without my pocket notebook. It’s always to hand. Whilst I often use texting to store note-to-self messages (more on that in a later post - there’s a cool way to organise texts) no gadget comes close to the handy pen and paper, which is always on, totally […]

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Following on from my “Web 1.0″ lament, I have a simple question for operators. What have you done, or are you doing, to make it easy for Joe Average to publish content to the mobile web? Is this even an important question for an operator?

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Light Reading analysts latest report is about Telco Mash-Ups and the threat or opportunity of this mode of service creation to Telcos. As some of you know, I set up the “Mashing Room” within Motorola some time back in order to explore the possibilities, so the report grabbed my interest. My approach towards technology (and […]

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Google’s recent announcement of Gears - an API for supporting offline operation of mobile apps - is creating the usual wave of hype whenever Google-god puts out a beta.
Offline storage is an old technique of the mobile world and was essential to so many prehistoric apps, simply because the network connection was unreliable. In that […]

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