Please Mr Jobs, slow down, we can't keep up!

Please forgive me, I’m going to talk about Apple again. Yes, you’ve probably all heard about the iPhone 4 and how it’s the thinnest, smartest, most beautiful, well-designed, remarkably constructed consumer device ever produced. And that’s only...

The feast is over – compulsory dieting begins now

All the signals were there and now it’s actually happening. AT&T is the first of what will certainly be a flurry of operators that will start phasing out those yummy ‘all you can eat’ packages for mobile data. AT&T will no longer offer new customers its...

The Earth is flat – in Kansas

I must confess I know little about Kansas, except that it’s the place that Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz came from. Apparently, it’s also the place where the foremost research in mobile phone user habits emanate from, according to research at Kansas State University....

The 'secret sauce'?

Last week I attended a conference in Singapore devoted to mobile financial services. So what you may ask? Well, when I asked some speakers if anything had changed in three years they admitted, very little. Sure, we have those amazing success stories emanating from...

Billing blamed for divorce!

You know how much I love reporting about billing stories from around the world. Sadly they are usually about ‘bill shock’ which seems to fascinate the world press. Occasionally, something turns up that makes you realize how interesting billing really can be. This...