The greatest trick Steve Jobs ever pulled was getting us to use his phone as the benchmark for all phones. They make a good benchmark of course: best experience, best industrial design and best ecosystem. Best for developed nations (and the developed...
Before Voice over IP (VoIP), life was pretty black and white. You had your office jockeys and your road warriors.
Office jockeys operated PCs, desk phones and faxes. Their jobs started and ended when they entered and left the premises. You could ge...
It seems a bit crazy to call a technology that is coming up for its twentieth birthday a "veteran". But if you consider the massive explosion of digital communications technology over the past few years, you start to realise just how long SMS has bee...
Ok, I'll admit it. I'm biased against the current crop of Nokia smartphones. I just think they're crap -- and maybe that's because I'm a "power user" (although sometimes I think my levels of frustration exceed the everyday consumer). Or maybe it's ju...
Blackberry, or officially RIM, has been on a rather downward spiral since the rapid growth of Android and the steady market share of iOS. You have to still consider that they are a good manufacturer and in many ways could actually leap back from the ...
SMSs went out yesterday informing MTN users who had subscribed to NokNok in the past and if you visit the NokNok website it simply says it's shutting the service down at the end of this month.
It's hardly surprising. The product was ill-conceived,...
It took the creative genius of an Apple to fulfil the prophecy, but the age of mobility is finally here, and it shows no signs of letting up on innovative surprises or promoting widespread addictive behaviour.
First, the iPhone rekindled the smar...
Time and time again SMS is the technological exception to the rule. Not only is it incredibly resistant to downward price pressure, which has seen it immune to the dramatic price drops in the tech world over the last 10 years, it also refuses to be u...
Last Monday I finally received the HTC Magic (also called the G2) -- a phone I have long been looking forward to, not so much for the hardware, but for the operating system. This is Google's second official iteration of Android, its open source m...
The blogosphere often comes under criticism (and usually, rightly so) for knee-jerk journalism. Don't research the facts -- just the get the scoop and get something up. In comes the traffic and some poor sod usually clicks on the Google Ads. Not a gr...
