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.
I have a new task in my day job... A self-appointed task, but one I'm excited about nonetheless. I'm going to collect together and evangalise a set of tools to help colleagues who don't specialise in (and - stretch your imagination a bit - aren't very excited about) IT. These…
Bullshit PR alert ahoy, skipper, AROOGA AROOGA. But the BBC is reporting it, it must be true! A man eating a winning scratchcard worth 10,000 Euros smacks of stretching credibility like a freak show schlong, but when you learn the scratchcard was won on board a Ryanair flight? Meh. The…
I think Google Latitude's alerting mechanism needs some fine tuning... Whilst the following alert is entirely true... Dan Lane was within 1600 meters of you in Westminster, London, UK at 4:56 PM. Check Google Latitude to see where Dan is now. About this alert: You received this alert because you…
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…
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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…
Win stuff at The Really Mobile Project
We’ve got an N97, an E75 and an E55 to give away, but we’re a bit stuck… How should we decide who gets them? Here’s where you come in. We want to run a competition… Update: Aaaannnnnddd…. we have a…