Looking back… and forward

This year has not been easy for many. By all accounts it has been a polarised recession: some of the largest companies have fallen, while for others, business has been booming. The stock markets plummeted only to rebound; organisations have offered themselves up for sale and then decided, actually, they could go it alone; redundancy [...]

Road testing the Palm Treo 500v

Back at IT Forum in November, Microsoft gave me one of those snazzy new Palm devices to evaluate. It felt a little weird on the way home, given it was in the middle of the advertising blitz, to have in my bag the same thing that was appearing on the hoardings (and indeed, cleverly projected [...]

BT skates its way to transformation

When I was a kid, once a year we used to go and watch an ice show. For adults perhaps, it might have been an excruciating panto rescued from the brink of despair by a few spangled costumes and tight-fitting lycra; but to my childish eyes, it was sheer magic. Every year, the centrepiece of the [...]

HELLO! I’M ON THE PLANE!

It was with initial trepidation that I read the news that mobile phones might be allowed on plane flights around Europe. After all, along with the metro/tube/subway, churches and libraries, Antarctica and deep space, there are few places left that have managed to avoid the encroaching wave of over-loud teenagers, ringtones and sales reps. But then, [...]

Nostalgic? Try Mobile

Anyone who thinks modem speeds are a thing of the past (hi Joe, not a criticism) can’t spend much time working mobile, using GPRS, throttling back the arrival of the 4Meg file in Outlook so that he can get onto the Web and post a blog. 56Kbps doesn’t seem all that distant, because that’s pretty much exactly what [...]

Mobile experiences from Mumbai

Quite beside all my other experiences and insights derived from spending 3 days in Mumbai last week, I did have a good try with mobile technologies. Here’s a quick summary: – mobile access via Blackberry – check (though I am feeling a bit nervous about what the bill is going to look like). Roaming service [...]