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I'm a consultant working in UK public-sector IT designing, delivering and assuring large systems. I'm also a mobile technology blogger writing about mobile products, services and the people who creates them.
I co-founded the mobile technology blog 'The Really Mobile Project', built the @uktrains Twitter service to provide better train-travel alerts and created 'Bloggers in Suits' to gently remind the 'social media experts' that the social web is for all of us.
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London Nokia Flagship Store: Closed
Although announced late last year, I’d completely forgotten that the closure of the flagship store…
PleaseRobMe.com now considered harmful [Week in Bullshit Redux]
Earlier this week we highlighted the confused rubbish that PleaseRobMe.com was spouting about privacy and…
Power over WiFi: ‘Physics is Physics’ or ‘Dare to Dream’?
Our post about the RCA Airnergy device generated a bit if a conversation… both for and against.To reflect many of the sceptical comments around the web I added a video from EEVblog which summarised much of the physics-based disbelief, but…
Recess: Still plenty of great uses for SMS
Recess is an iPhone app that lets businesses manage and track business waiting lists – such as restaurants’ – through an iPhone app.It’s a very specialist app and the makers suggest it’s a great way for businesses to avoid the…
Clever charger gets power from WiFi signals [please be true]
I was amazed when I saw this… it’s almost certainly too good to be true, but see the video after the break… US consumer-electronics giant RCA have created a box of tricks that sucks power out of the air driven…
The Week in Bullshit: PleaseRobMe.com
Sometimes smart people do dumb things… and we should forgive them. No one’s perfect.But sometime…
Nokia Customer Service… Fish, Barrel, Shooting…
Nokia. Say what you like about their phones and software (and indeed we do), plenty of people like them and they can’t all be wrong… (can they?)Their customer service, however, often leaves a lot to be desired – we’ve covered…
Hidden MWC: Earphones… controlled by your eyes!
Right now the entire mobile industry is in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress and the…