When will they grow up?

For my sins I possess and use devices that have Apple iOS, Android and Windows operating systems. I could spend hours outlining the features, good and bad, of all of them but, quite honestly, none of them are perfect – for my liking anyway. However, one thing that...

Google pays Apple $1bn – network operators get ?

Surprise, surprise! Google pays Apple $1 billion per annum to make sure it is the default search engine on all those millions of iOS devices out there. Money for jam you might say? After all, what other search engine could Apple promote as their default? Oh yes,...

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...

Knock-knock Nokia, anybody home?

Nokia has been hitting the headlines in the past week, but not always for the right reasons. Firstly, speculation in the NewYork Times about an enhanced alliance with Microsoft (the first was announced back in 2009 but little came of it except that the Microsoft...