Tag Archives: Commentary

The iPhone UI Revolution

I have held off from blogging about the iPhone here much thus far, but I am going to chuck some opinion out there. This is not just about the iPhone though, it is more about how the industry needs to react because of it.
Let me say this right off the bad: the iPhone is not [...]

On Online Journalism: Why it’s the Place to Be

I have been in online journalism for several years now, surely not that long compared to a lot of the veterans I know, but enough to realize a few observations about the industry. I love journalism, and can’t imagine doing much else anymore, and I solidly believe that the place to be is not in [...]

Recommended Reading

This is in response to Kent Newsome’s request for inspiration for his feed reading list (his ’swivel feeds’ experiment). As you can imagine, most of my 150 or so feeds I read regularly (there are more that I only glance at now and then) are focused on mobile technology, but there are still some that [...]

The Smartphone, and Why it Will Never Be King

I hear a lot of talk from people about the fact that the traditional ‘dumb phone’ will eventually be deleted from the market in favor of smartphones. While this is a valid point of view, I don’t entirely agree.
Sure, smartphone hardware and software are getting cheaper and easier for manufacturers to produce, but I think [...]

Advertising and Youth: The Perfect Match

I was reading an article on Pocket Picks the other day, wherein they reported that figures from Q Research indicate that 71% of 11-20 year olds would be happy to receive advertisements on their mobile phones so long as they were targeted to their interests. This actually surprised me a little, and would have been [...]

My 3GSM Awards

3GSM Award for the:

Worst Product Intro: “Ultra Swift Meets Xtra-Thin” (courtesy Samsung and the Ultra 12.1 press release)
Best Press Release Headline: “Apertio appoints Michael Jackson as new Chairman”
Stupidest Product Name: “MOTOQ q9″

Leave a comment if you have some of your own.

Organizational Rediscovery

I recently rediscovered a tool that has been around longer than any piece of technology that I own, but that I completely forgot about. I am normally the early adopter, the person pushing for new gadgets that change your life, but this is something decidedly low-tech. Despite this, using it has changed my life. The [...]

The Choice of Media Player in a Monopoly

An interesting thing that I would normally just pass over happened to me a couple of days ago: I was talking about Windows Media Player with a friend of mine, and when I told him he should upgrade to the new version 11, he did not know that Microsoft made it, and as such asked [...]

iPhone = Everything, Anything Else = Not iPhone

Checking the stats on MobileBurn, in the six hours that my Apple iPhone article has been up, it has received as many hits as any other release story from CES has received in the full 24 hour period after publishing. That’s on track for four times the popularity of its nearest competing story, the Nokia [...]

The Disappearence of Banks, and Why I Don’t Mind

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here in Australia there is a general uproar over the closure of a lot of bank branches, especially in rural areas. It is not limited to just one bank, either, all of the banks have come under fire for branch closures. While the case is [...]