15 Apr 2008
Last week we attended a mobile forum in London aimed at the ‘little guys’ within the mobile industry. With no major operators there flexing their muscles it was more a meeting of minds to discuss the road ahead for the businesses that lie beyond the network portals
The question is who’s got the map? read full post »
27 Mar 2008
Firefox is moments away from releasing Version 3 and Beta 4, whilst accusing Apple of backhand tactics in pushing Safari 3.1. The Great Browser Race is back on, but what should you go for?
27 Mar 2008
Mobile phone games have been around … well … ever since mobile phones i guess, but Apple’s iPhone might have just given phone games an interesting technology boost. Knitware’s Doc Rogers talks with Steve Demeter, creator of Trism for the iPhone. read full post »
10 Mar 2008
So 7Digital.com are going to start selling all the music on their books DRM-free. I think it’s great, however I also can’t help feeling that you may lose that sense of ownership of the music you’ve invested in. Which in turns makes me wonder as to why you’d want to pay for any DRM-free music in the first place when it’s so freely available to download elsewhere for nothing? read full post »
26 Feb 2008
Yesterday the Taliban gave Afghanistani mobile networks an ultimatum. Shut down your networks at night, or face attack. Landlines are pretty defunct in the country making mobile networks the key method of communication - for the Taliban and Allied Forces. The Allied Forces carry out plenty of their operations at night and this is what the Taliban are trying to restrict. The thing is, as has been pointed out, the Allied Forces use satellite phones too. They don’t need to rely on mobile networks. Surely the Taliban know this? If they don’t maybe they just want a quiet night’s sleep, but chances are, they do and want to put a stranglehold on the country. Where does this leave those companies? read full post »
22 Feb 2008
Another missive from Peter Sells, our reporter at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.
Noticeably absent this year are the mobile TV companies. They’re still here of course flogging their wares from the less high profile (less expensive) stands, but its no longer the hot topic. Mobile TV is not like TV on your mobile, it’s a painful experience that relies on patience, good eyesight and a commitment to consuming content that only exists in business plans. If your telly took 20 seconds to buffer after you turned it on or changed channel, consumed power so you could only watch 40 mins before it died, and the picture regularly froze up, then you wouldn’t get addicted to Eastenders.
The Nokia N96 - which comes with DVB-H as standard (and even a kick-stand to help you watch it)
13 Feb 2008
I’ve just received an email post from our ‘man in the field’, Peter Sells, Knitware’s very own mobile phone expert. He’s currently wandering the halls of this years (2008) Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona. Over to you Peter…
Day 1 - The iPhone effect.
Hall 8 is the handset hall, a cathedral dedicated to the god of convergence. We are most definitely in the Post iPhone age. Samsung, LG Sony Ericsson are all touting touchscreen media devices that attempt to mimic - whilst being careful not to fully replicate - Apple’s seductive UI. Perhaps Apple should be flattered by this homage, but really they should be worried. Samsung can knock these babies out way cheaper than Team Jobs. Soon, or at least “quarter 2″, I can buy a device without the commitment, without subsiding the handset, that easily runs all the 3rd party software, and is nearly, but not quite, as sexy as the iPhone.
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13 Feb 2008
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