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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.
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…
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…
RCA.com - Press Page
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