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Review: Google Nexus One
On a semi-work-related task, I’ve played around with Google’s Nexus One “superphone” for a while to get a feeling what the Google guys are delivering. As is the tradition with my light-reviews, some...
View ArticleThe arbitrary and damaging obsession with smartphones (vs others)
Will smartphones end up killing the operator ARPUs? Okay, let’s take a step or two back. In the mobile phone industry, there are few things more misleading than the split to smartphones and other...
View ArticleOn the obsession with smartphones, part II
Okay, the previous post got sidetracked from my intended point(s), so I will try to return to them here shortly. 1) You don’t need a smartphone to use advanced services This is a point equally valid...
View ArticleMobile extremism & ignorance good for nobody
Ever since the iPhone launched some years ago and ended up being, by most measures, a big success, I feel the tech press has been getting increasingly mean. And I don’t like it one bit. These days not...
View ArticleMost apps don’t make money. So?
One of the recent annoying trends in the mobile business domain has been the attitude towards apps. Most of the media extols apps as the next big thing, the gold rush everyone must get at now or miss...
View ArticleDiminishing returns in mobile technology
My home PC, almost five years old, still performs all required tasks quite well (I don’t do gaming). While there’s been plenty of technological progress in the past years, a new PC bought today would...
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Notes on iPhone 4S
The iPhone 4S had, as usual, already been reviewed to death even before it launched to the public, let alone now. But since I acquired a work-related iPhone 4S on launch day, I thought I might as well...
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Is your mobile making you dumb?
Could your mobile be blamed for making you dumber? Maybe, and that’s not the half of it – it could kill you. Or, rather, it would be more accurate to say that your obsession with your mobile is what...
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The dirty mobile telecommuters
Telecommuting can be great. It can also be loaded with many lies, one of which I’m going to partially debunk here: environmental benefits. Here’s typical imagery of a telecommuter, the kind that can be...
View ArticleCould Moore’s Law help bring back online privacy and kill the Cloud?
For a long time, everyone have “known” communications on the Internet were being watched by agencies, authorities and generally people we may not want to see them; and that’s in addition to all the...
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