Yesterday afternoon the internet was buzzing with details of the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series in Barcelona. Only it wasn’t really a launch, it was more a demonstration of a preview version of the platform. It’s predecessor was only launched last autumn, and this pretty well complete rewrite of the Microsoft mobile phone [...]

News today that there is a new version of Google Maps for Mobile alongside there now being a Symbian native version it also includes a ‘My Location’ feature that triangulates an approximate location based on the cell towers the phone can communicate with. So away I go downloading it – runs great, aside from the [...]

So having had an iPod Touch to play with for a couple of days, I thought I’d give my first impressions.
Firstly, being an Apple device, the integration between the iPod Touch and the Mac is great. Effectively all you have to do is plug the iPod Touch into the computer and you can sync music [...]

I blogged a couple of years ago about an article about Stephen Fry that appeared in Mac Format and about his addiction to the Mac platform stretching back twenty years.
Recently Stephen has started a blog and the topic of his first posting – Devices and Desires – which discusses another technological addiction, mobile devices and [...]

A little story here for anybody who has ever struggled with the T9 predictive text facility on their mobile phone. Whereas some people struggle with it, an Italian commuter has, over the course of seventeen weeks of commuting used his Nokia 6630 to write a 384 page novel! The result of his labours is now [...]

It is mere days since the Apple iPhone hit the streets in the States, and the simmering holy war has well and truly burst into life, particularly with avid Nokia N95 fans evangelising their platform.
Perhaps one of the most interesting places to observe the current skirmishes is over on Scobleizer, the reason being that Robert [...]

There are a couple of significant computing anniversaries this year. Firstly, it is twenty years since version 1.0 of Powerpoint was released – initially only for the Apple Mac, the PC version came along a few years later once Microsoft bought out the original company. Presentation Zen not surprisingly has an article on the anniversary [...]

So this afternoon I let the Nokia Update Service update the firmware on my N73 to 3.0638.0.0.1. The update process has all sorts of dire warnings, including telling you several times that you should back up the phone memory, as the update will clear out the contents. It then suggests using the ‘Backup to Memory [...]

So after a pretty long wait, earlier this week our new phones were finally enabled by 3. It took their IT department several attempts to get it all working – including one slightly bizarre call where I was speaking to Simon on one mobile, whilst testing the other, and he was on the other end [...]

So there I was on Saturday, fully expecting by this point to be able to write about my now activated X-Series phone, but come Monday morning, I was still getting the ‘your phone will be activated in 24 hours’ service message on both mine and Beth’s phone.
I’d already talked to Simon on Sunday about the [...]

As some of you may know, my brother works for 3, the 3G only mobile phone operator here in the UK.
Not surprisingly he has been trying for years to get myself and Beth to switch over to his companies network from our current operator O2 who I’ve been with since I got my first mobile [...]