Mobile World Congress is running this week in Barcelona. While it’s predicable that we’ve seen lots of Android phones, including the big unveiling of the Galaxy S5 from Samsung, I’ve found it interesting to see the coverage of the other devices powered by open source technologies. Mozilla announced their plans for a smartphone that could … Read more
On Friday Apple released a patch for a flaw in one of their core security libraries. The library is used both in Apple’s mobile operating system iOS, and their desktop operating system OSX. As of today, the desktop version has yet to be patched. This flaw, and its aftermath, are interesting for a number of … Read more
Today Canonical announced the next step in their project to bring Ubuntu to the phone. A new potentially record-breaking IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign has been launched for the “Ubuntu Edge” – a device which seeks to bring together all the latest developments in mobile technology into a limited-run consumer device… that will run Ubuntu, of course. … Read more
Yesterday evening Canonical posted a much-hyped “virtual keynote” (video of Mark Shuttleworth) announcing Ubuntu for phones. This heralds a new open source phone OS entering the scene, and I’d like to take a look at some of the points from the 20 minute video that I found interesting, as well as how it’s been received … Read more
After being axed by HP last year , WebOS has re-emerged as an open source OS ready to be ported to a range of devices. Being on the web end of the web-vs-native debate going on in the mobile world, I was always a bit of a fan of WebOS, even though it always seemed a … Read more
Mobile technologies have become an integral part of our lives. Research indicates that by 2015 80% of people accessing the Internet will be doing so from mobile devices. Mobile applications and services are changing the way we engage with the web, and to a certain extent with each other. At the same time, cloud technologies deliver … Read more
Google has been in the news repeatedly over the last six months for closing down some of its many, many side projects. In general these are being mothballed in perpetuity, but in some cases, there is a transition plan. This is the case for Google Sky Map, and for our community it’s an interesting variation … Read more
I was thoroughly drawn in by the Amazon ‘Black Friday’ event last week, buying both a phone and a camera, against my better judgement and to the disgust of my bank manager. While trying to suppress my buyer’s remorse by searching the internet for all the marvellous capabilities of my soon-to-arrive devices, I noticed that … Read more
(Apologies to E J Thribb) Adobe’s announcement that it will be dropping Flash Player for mobile devices from its future plans has been widely interpreted as a victory for Apple, and in particular their late Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Perhaps because of his essay Thoughts on Flash, the absence of Flash technology from Apple mobile … Read more
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” as Wikipedia informs me Ralph Waldo Emerson never quite said. The point – that real innovation sells itself – remains true today. Indeed it could be argued that the average consumer is more engaged with the heartbeat of technological innovation now … Read more