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 [...]
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 [...]
Overtime for answering email out of hours?
Brazil passed a law last month that allowed workers to ask for overtime if they answered emails outside of working hours. Could this be the last nail in the coffin for BlackBerry, after all, what self-respecting boss would willingly supply a BlackBerry to someone who will demand overtime for using it? And what about Twitter use? [...]