One Reason Why My Laptop Has Been Rubbish… Dust

Yes, after some terminal-ish spluttering this morning before a cloud of dust turned me into Wile. E. Coyote, I had to strip down the Compaq laptop (again) to find out what’s gone wrong with it. While I’m sure this isn’t the only cause of the recent crashes and blue screens (and of course Ubuntu is […]

Scoble’s Twitter Interview Misses The Point

…but not for the reason you might think.
You see, this isn’t a post about the content of Robert Scoble’s interview with the Twitter team of Ev Williams and Biz Stone over the weekend - after all it’s a simple fact of life that the world goes round, the sky is blue, and Twitter goes down […]

Taking All About Symbian into Top Gear

One of the most well received projects in the demo area of the S60 Summit at Barcelona this week was Shaker Racer - a radio controlled truck using not the regular RC sticks, but the accelerometers in a Blue-tooth-connected S60 handset. I had to find out more, in a special video report for All About […]

All About Symbian Podcast #24

…where Steve, Rafe and myself talk about a number of N-Gage issues (mainly Mile High Pinball and Reset Generation), a look at a number of new handsets including the Samsung i450 and Nokia 6130c, and we chat about the editorial policy on review software and hardware at All About Symbian.

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What the Frak is Reset Generation All About? I Walk Through Nokia’s Big Summer Game

Yes they’ve been talking about it in mobile gaming circles for some time, but the wrap has come off Nokia’s big game. Reset Generation (formerly known as Project: White Rock) is going to be the flagship game of the N-Gage platform. Myself and the team at All About Symbian have worked on a big preview […]

UPnP, the Nokia N95 and Windows Media Player

Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted a tutorial on linking the Nokia N95 (and other Nseries devices) to your Windows Media Player collection on your PC, using the Universal Plug and PLay (UPnP) protocols and Nokia’s Home Media client on the handset.
Yes you can still hook up the phone over USB, or a bluetooth […]

Dear Apple, Downloads does not equal Developers

Apple’s CFO has announced 200,000 developers for the iPhone are raring to go, and especially rariing to do enterprise applications. Really?
Sounds remarkably like the claims that Palm used to make with the numbers of SDK’s download for Palm OS, and the hundreds of thousands of developers they had… And that platform has, as of today […]

The Top Ten Mobile Web 2.0 Companies

Just posted over on All About Symbian is my Top Ten Mobile Websites - specifically sites from Web 2.0 companies that are designed for the smaller screen, but still providing the relevant information. The Top Ten goes as follows…
10. Mippin - http://m.mippin.com/
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9. MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/
Popular social networking site with a strong […]

Not Too Simple A Task, Please, Google

If Google are to launch a To-Do list (as reported via an eager TechCrunch reader) then I really do hope they make it as simple as possible… but with one caveat. Have some sort of folder/labels arrangement in the same way as Gmail.
The reason for this is because to make a good To-Do list application […]

Predicting the Key Technologies for 2008, and their Guardians

The BBC (hmm, two posts in as many days…) points out five new pieces of technology that they think could come to prominence in 2008, and it’s an interesting mix.
Three of them are all to do with connectivity in some form another, be it the adoption of WiMax in the UK and Europe, the use […]

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