A new way to dump on Twitter
If you think that some tweets are a load of crap, particularly your own, then this is just the news you’ve been waiting for. An enterprising company in the USA (no surprises there), will take one or more feeds from your Twitter account and print those tweets on toilet paper so you can then display [...]
Connected House comes alive!
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA has put together what it calls the Connected House. It comprises technology available today and puts in the context what the house of the future will be like. It’s a bit scary as Tony Poulos found out when he tried the virtual dancing!
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona in 3 minutes
So much to see, so, little time. Here is the GSMA event in Barcelona condensed into three minutes of madness!
Sneaky congestion culprit hogging bandwidth
Those behind the scenes OS updates to smartphones may be using more bandwidth than we ever imagined, especially if they are released during peak network loads. Sarah Reedy from Light Reading Mobile examines the issue here.
First cinematic quality movie shot on smartphone
Olive – The first cinematic-quality feature film to be shot entirely on a smartphone. First-time director Hooman Khalili used a Nokia N8 cellphone, with a high-resolution camera adapted with a 35-mm lens to give added depth of field to the film. The film cost around $500,000 to make, part funded by Silicon Valley attorney and former Facebook [...]
I’m Googled out!
Google sent me an email last week. It read: “Dear Google user, We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience [...]
Loyalty cards get smartphoned
The millions of cafe loyalty cards used by Australians each month – which if stacked flat on top of one another would extend about 2.5 times the height of Sydney Tower – are heading for extinction. And it’s all courtesy of the smartphone revolution. Read more…
Despite the trim things still looking dim at RIM
If you think I was hard on RIM and it’s new CEO in my last blog you should read what PaidContent.org has to say. Here are some snippets: There is a business-school case study waiting to be written about this era of RIM, from 2007 through the next few years. It’s a solidly profitable company [...]
Meet RIM’s ‘dynamic’ new CEO – Thorsten Heins
Here is a man brimming with confidence and excited to be filling the shoes (all four of them) of his predecessors. He also talks a lot about how innovative his company is, presumably it is RIM he is referring to. Something isn’t gelling here and one can only hope they are not setting up Mr [...]
BlackBerry bungling twins thorny ending
I’ve just finished reading the New York Times report on the departure of the twin CEOs at BlackBerry HQ, RIM. If the situation were not so critical for RIM shareholders it would actually make hilarious reading, something akin to a black comedy. For a start, how many companies do you know have two CEOs? The [...]