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  • Stopping the mobile madness

    I love my iPad, but I hate what it represents.

    Written by Mathias Thurman • 09 Aug. 11 00:43

  • Windows Phone steps up, has iPhone in sight

    New figures from IDC have come out of the US indicating Windows Phone 7 will be more popular than the mighty iPhone in 2015. How is this even likely? It’s all about the operating system, of course.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 30 March 11 11:29
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    Minchin's madness

    I'm in a bind. I can't work out whether Senator Nick Minchin is plain mad, or there is method to his madness. I'm leaning to the former, though, because of the shadow communication minister's actions since the Federal Government announced its plans to force the structural separation of Telstra. Put simply, they have been nothing more than reckless political opportunism.

    Written by Trevor Clarke • 24 Oct. 09 09:00
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    Talk about IT - underground vs overhead cable debate

    As the NBN construction chugs along in Tasmania, debate on the mainland continues as to whether laying the fibre optic cables underground is more advantageous than putting them in existing overhead infrastructure. Many industry experts have weighed in on the debate, what are your thoughts?

    Written by Computerworld Staff • 15 Oct. 09 15:13

  • CreditSMS helps structure informal mobile finance

    Mobile commerce is quickly becoming one of the most cost-effective, far-reaching means of giving the 'un-banked' poor their first taste of financial services. Yet many of these services are almost entirely informal, connected to neither banks nor traditional forms of regulation. A new initiative - CreditSMS - aims to integrate m-commerce with traditional financial management tools, thereby formalizing the informal and bridging the financial divide.

    Written by Ken Banks and Benjamin Lyon • 11 Aug. 09 05:09

  • What's an ISP? (That's not a trick question)

    As President-elect Barack Obama begins fleshing out his agenda, one promising sign is that he considers Internet infrastructure to be key, judging from both his stated goals and the caliber of people he's asking to advise him on policy.

    Written by Johna Till Johnson • 26 Nov. 08 09:34

  • Drive the goblins out of your converged network

    Small businesses converging voice, video and data traffic sometimes end up with haunted networks, but you can exorcise the demons. Affordable QoS mechanisms are available to oust the goblins that cause delay, jitter, bit-rate errors and dropped packets.

    Written by John Klein • 03 Nov. 08 10:49

  • Analysts: OS focus could boost Moto's prospects

    Reports have Motorola announcing as soon as Thursday a big push to build new Android phones, but the more important move would be a potential plan by the handset maker to reduce the number of mobile operating systems it uses, analysts said.

    Written by Nancy Gohring • 31 Oct. 08 07:13

  • Global Forum eyes digital trust, broadband race

    This year's Global Forum met last week in this paradoxically ancient and modern European city, and celebrated technological advance while noting chaotic policy environment conditions.

    Written by Jay Gillette • 29 Oct. 08 09:10

  • In search of the smartphone laptop

    In the past two years, mobile phone and laptop companies have unveiled breathtaking innovations -- from 24-hour battery laptops to dual-screen laptops to "augmented reality" mobile phone applications.

    Written by Mike Elgan • 27 Oct. 08 10:02

  • Nokia challenges developers to think outside the phone

    You don't have to be a programmer to be a mobile innovator. All you need to do is open your eyes to the fact that a smart phone or QWERTY handset is a personal computer, sans legacy baggage. In the future, user-facing computers will have more in common with the high-end mobile devices of today than with the eight-core desktops and quad-core notebooks of 2009.

    Written by Tom Yager • 02 Oct. 08 11:55
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    Is your mobile phone trying to kill you?

    Don't look now, but your mobile phone is out to get you. This deadly device can cause accidents, give you cancer or even kill you, according to a rising chorus of alarmist reports.

    Written by Mike Elgan • 04 Aug. 08 09:05

  • Mobile phones and the digital divide

    Whether you're building an application for the 3G iPhone in the United States or trying to figure out how to deliver health information via SMS (Short Message Service) to a rural community in Botswana, the mobile space is diverse and exciting in equal measure. It touches on more fields than you could throw a phone at: anthropology, appropriate technology, electronics, programming, telecommunications, geography, literacy, gender and poverty to name a few. It's this diversity that makes it so exciting. Yet, at the same time, it's this same diversity that presents us with many of our greatest challenges. In many ways, the mobile world -- particularly in the ICT4D (ICT for Development) field -- is fragmented and often misunderstood.

    Written by Ken Banks • 30 July 08 08:09

  • Elgan: Why expensive mobile phones are worth it

    The price of the new iPhone 3G dropped by $200 in the US. Although the phone bills necessary to take advantage of the phone's faster data speeds rose beyond handset savings, many hailed the lower price as an important development. Finally, the price is within the range of what people are willing to pay.

    Written by Mike Elgan • 29 July 08 08:28

  • First Reviews: iPhone 3G Improved, but Still Flawed

    Is the iPhone 3G worth waiting in line for? Early reviewers of Apple's new smart phone are mostly positive, but they share some common gripes about battery life and two aspects of dealing with AT&T: the service-plan costs and the skimpy 3G coverage areas.

    Written by Edward N. Albro • 10 July 08 16:08
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    How does a developer decide on a mobile platform?

    I'm developing mobile applications -- for the iPhone. Considering all of the mobile platforms available to programmers, why would I select the development platform for the Apple device when I could have chosen Symbian, BlackBerry, or Android?

    Written by Larry Borsato • 09 July 08 16:33
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    Seven ways the iPhone sucks

    I've used iPhones and I have an iPod Touch. I love the interface, and I dig the device. Initially, I had to resist the urge to just buy an iPhone and deal with these problems, but I didn't, opting to get a Nokia N95 instead. A year has passed, and I've realized that I definitely made the right choice -- the limitations of the original iPhone (and the iPhone 2.0) are simply too numerous. Perhaps I've been spoiled by my N95 (and truth be told, I'll be getting an N96 in the next few months), but no matter how you slice it, I've decided that the iPhone just isn't my cup of tea. Here's why:

    Written by Paul Venezia • 02 July 08 11:05

  • Unwrapping HTC's Touch Diamond

    Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC) revealed its new Touch Diamond handset early last month to rave initial reviews, and it beat Apple to announcing a 3G (third-generation telephony) handset.

    Written by Dan Nystedt • 30 June 08 17:15

  • Symbian deal will open up mobile platform market

    The global battle to control the smarts in your smartphone escalated this week when some of the combatants redeployed their forces in two big moves.

    Written by Brad Reed • 27 June 08 10:58

  • Microsoft on Symbian's open-source move: Good luck with that

    Microsoft has welcomed the transformation of the Symbian mobile-phone platform into an open source project, because the software giant contends the change will create a host of new problems for the Symbian community.

    Written by John Cox • 27 June 08 09:21
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