Update: For more info on Xbox360 video streaming, please see my post - Top 5 Tips For Setting Up Your Xbox 360 To Stream Media - which I will try to keep up-to-date.
Increasingly, I’m finding that the “television” I’m watching these days consists less of regular broadcast content, and more of content that I’ve [...]
With the released of its new phone, the “Touch”, HTC has signalled that it has recognised one of iPhone’s key differentiators in the market place - the gesture-based interface. The new HTC Touch has some technology called TouchFLO, which builds a neat gesture-based touch screen interface on top of Windows Mobile.
Like the iPhone, as well [...]
A couple of days ago, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of a new mobile phone operating environment. It’s called JavaFX Mobile, and it’s based around a Java/Linux software stack. If you look at the image above (both are real phones, running real software), you can see that Sun is aiming squarely at competing [...]
It’s taken a few years, but at last mobile technology has reached the point where genuinely compelling smartphones can be made with form factors that will appeal to the mass market. The point is that, to appeal to the mass market, mobile phones have to be easily pocketable; and that imposes some size constraints. [...]
In case you missed the news, Microsoft has agreed to acquire Tellme for a rumoured c. $900M. Why did Microsoft pay almost a billion dollars for the company?
Well, there are a number of components that go into the valuation. However, the thing that’s really exciting about Tellme is what they’re doing in [...]
Last November, I wrote about Sun needing to up the pace of innovation with Java ME if they want to keep up with Flash Lite. Now, Microsoft may be about to trump both Sun (Java ME) and Adobe (Flash/Flash Lite).
Microsoft’s plans for WPF/E are starting to look pretty impressive: a well-designed technology; [...]
There has plenty been written already about the new iPhone from Apple. The interesting thing is how many people don’t seem to “get” the innovations in this device, and how important they are. I can’t help wonder if the big mobile players - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft/HTC, etc. will understand [...]
Stay tuned for live reaction to Steve Jobs’s keynote at address at Macworld…
Rumours ahead of the event include: launch of the iTV (will have new name), launch of the iPhone (will have new name), and launch of the widescreen video iPod; as well as various updates of models in the Mac range. [...]
At the end of 2005, I gave my predictions about the mobile web for 2006. I said
Mobile phone and handsets and phone browser software will take a leap forward
Moble phone operators will begin to reduce pricing for data packages on both 2.5G and 3G, as they realise that their future profits depend on new [...]
If the rumour mill is to believed, RIM is shortly to announce a new addition to its Blackberry 8700 range - the 8707v. Exclusive to Vodafone for a while, this will be an 8700 device with 3G connectivity. If they can get this on the market soon, it will be a massive success. [...]