Simon’s Blog

Apple’s iPhone will soon be launching here in the UK. I’ve said before that, in some ways, the iPhone is the most advanced mobile phone on sale anywhere. So, with the iPhone soon to be available for me, I thought about whether to buy one or not. I’ve decided not […]

In a post entitled, “How to avoid sounding like an monkey” (sic), Dave Winer explains that anyone who uses terms from a branch of mathematics called, Graph Theory, in the context of social networking sounds like an “idiot”. Err…. what?
Graph theory is a well-established field, having been around for more than two hundred […]

Google may unveil a key new component of its office suite next week at TechCrunch40, the demo-like conference being organised by Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. Named Presently the new software is a presentation tool, analoguous to PowerPoint in Microsoft’s Office suite. Please note - Mike and Jason haven’t actually said that […]

Imagine your core business is software. Now, imagine you decide to enter into litigation over patents with a much larger, more established company that also has software as a core business. Smart move? Or not-so-smart move? In general, I’d say not-so-smart. Why? Well, with the software […]

From the refreshed shuffle, through the new video-playing iPod nano and iPod touch (not forgetting the newly price iPhone) through to the wireless iTunes store (buy your music on impulse, right on your iPod touch/iPhone, no computer required), Apple has just raised the bar for Microsoft’s Zune platform. Here are the new […]

Rumours about a Google mobile phone continue to do the rounds. If we put some “facts” together, they point to an interesting conclusion: that Google’s new phone could be the first phone to be based on the JavaFX Mobile phone operating system.
JavaFX Mobile is Sun’s new mobile phone OS. The OS is […]