On a recent visit to Seoul I dutifully visited one of my favourite geek tourist destinations — the Yongsan Electronics Market. This is Seoul’s “temple” to consumer electronics, with eight floors of counters laden with cameras, PCs, notebooks, TVs, personal navigation devices (PNDs) and mobile phones stretching as far as the eye can see. The [...]

Vodafone announced its 1Q10 results on Friday and they make very interesting reading. The figures are always a useful guide to how the mobile industry’s faring and Vodafone pointed to many areas of its business that are improving after a couple of indifferent years. Turkey, India and South Africa all improved dramatically in the first [...]

Google recently announced its second-quarter results. Total revenue grew 24 percent over the year to $6.82 billion, with 23 percent growth from each of the two largest businesses — Google Web sites ($4.5 billion) and AdSense ($2.1 billion). Other sources of revenue, which include Android, grew 39 percent year-on-year to $258 million. This was lower [...]

With the World Cup now over, I was curious to see whether the mobile industry had used the event to promote new services and drive up usage. More so given that before the tournament started many retailers around the world reported healthy sales of goods and merchandise related to the World Cup.

Before the opening game [...]

On 1 July Google announced that it intends to buy flight search provider ITA Software for $700 million in cash. ITA is one of the leading providers of flight search information and bookings, competing with Amadeus, Sabre, Expedia and others. It has agreements with a large number of airlines and travel search sites including Fly.com, [...]

The Walkman brand has shown incredible longevity since its inception more than 30 years ago. From cassettes to CDs, a brief flirtation with MiniDiscs, and now MP3s, Sony has subtly adapted the Walkman name to each changing form of technology. So it probably came as no surprise when Sony Ericsson expanded the Walkman series into [...]

I recently attended a conference focused on mobile phones for the ageing population. I went with high expectations of learning more about a subject that I’ve developed a keen interest in over the past couple of years.

At Mobile World Congress I was profoundly affected by the challenges facing older users and wrote about my experiences. [...]

I recently attended a round-table event with Kevin Russell, CEO of the 3 network in the UK. If I’m brutally honest I went expecting him to repeat the usual messages. Over the past few years Kevin has been unwavering in his views that spectrum allocation and termination rates have been detrimental to 3’s business in [...]

The buzz surrounding Android is inescapable at the moment. The progress the platform’s made in less than two years is remarkable. With shipments now averaging over 100,000 units a day, it’s entirely conceivable that Android sales will top 35 million globally in 2010. And that’s just handsets. It doesn’t include an abundance of new devices [...]

At the recent ARE2010 show in Santa Clara, one of the leading players in augmented reality (AR), Total Immersion, pitched this logo in an attempt to help the AR community raise awareness among consumers.

Over the past years many of those involved in AR have spent a lot of time discussing what the technology actually is. [...]