Malware paranoia sets in

One of the great joys, and most under-rated features, of the iPhone when it first launched was the ability to update its operating systems and firmware via iTunes. If, like me, you had bought one or more mobile ‘lemons’ over the years, that had to be returned to a...

Minutes, seconds – who's counting?

For some strange reason, I was under the impression that most CSPs generally aspired to one-second billing and this was pretty much the world standard. Apparently, I have been totally misled, according to reports out of Australia. The Age newspaper today ran a story...

Facebook scares me

Facebook is hot, but I’m going cold on it. Maybe it’s an age thing, but the buzz has waned to the point of disinterest. News that almost half the UK population now uses Facebook, 30 million, is mind-boggling. What is even more daunting is that more than half of...

Mobile phones to blow your mind!

The perennial doomsters warning against mobile phone usage and links to brain damage have raised their ugly heads (no pun intended), once again.  This time it is no less than the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which has found that 50 minutes of...

Too little, too late for Vodafone Oz?

When embattled Australian mobile operator, Vodafone Australia (VHA) experienced major network issues late last year its CEO told the market it was due to ‘temporary software bugs’. When its customers rallied behind one Adam Brimo who set up a website to vent his...