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Mobile phones: 20 years old in the UK
Just missed the birthday party by a couple of days. The first mobile
phone call in the UK was on January 1st 1985. When the first consumer
mobile phones were launched they were “the size of a briefcase, cost about £2,000 and had a battery life of little more than 20 minutes“. So they've seen my Sony [...]
What's all the fuss about mobile blogging?
” Soon it'll make no more sense having a mobile weblog than it would be to call your regular weblog a stationary blog. You'll just have a weblog and how you post to it, and what you post to it, will depend upon where you are, what you're doing and what you want to say.”
Davies, [...]
No, I invented moblogging
There's an interesting debate happening over at Dave's place on moblogging. Be sure to read the comments. Dave stirred things up a bit when he posted to Scripting News some thoughts on this topic. So many negative comments, it's clearly a sensitive area. But why? Perhaps because blogging is new enough and moblogging is newer, [...]
Back from California
Back from alt-i-lab 2004 and back from California. Lots to say about the conference and my first exposure to the inner workings of IMS. Fascinating insights into the standards and specifications world including the true nature of specification adoption after talking to people both inside IMS and out. Notes from the conference later. I had [...]
First mobile phone virus created
It begins…
Buon giorno!
Ciao from Sestri Levante on the glorious Italian riviera.
Kraftwerk @ Manchester Apollo
Kraftwerk were at the Manchester Apollo last night as part of their 2004 world tour. Great gig, natch, though Florian seemed to be having either technical problems or problems with the stage lights shining into his face all gig resulting in him stepping off stage a couple of times during the show.
The thing about Kraftwerk [...]
The coolest band around
Seeing Air live at Birmingham Academy last night confirms that with their latest album they have the coolest sound around at the moment.