Mobile

Stopping the mobile madness

I love my iPad, but I hate what it represents.

By Mathias Thurman | 09 August, 2011 00:43

Tags: Apple, hardware systems, iPad, it management, security, tablets

Rise of the planet of the tablets

The Planet of the Apes series of sci-fi thrillers in the late 1960s and early '70s depicted a world in which intelligent apes are the dominant species and humans have been subordinated.

By Mike Elgan | 09 August, 2011 00:13

Tags: Apple, hardware systems, tablets

Will Aussies wait in faith for an Amazon tablet?

Australians are used to lengthy waiting times for the latest devices, but by the time the rumoured Amazon arrives on our shores the market could be well and truly saturated. Will it be worth the wait?

By Rodney Gedda | 15 July, 2011 14:34

Tags: amazon, amazon kindle, Android, e-books, e-readers, kindle, tablet PCs

NBN impetus traced back to 'asset rich' Telstra

This week the "revelation" that an uncooperative Telstra prompted the National Broadband Network will hit the headlines again as the ABC digs into the politics of the telecommunications industry. In reality the writing has been on the wall ever since deregulation more than a decade ago.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 April, 2011 11:28

Tags: deregulation, Four Corners, FTTN, government, NBN, nbn co, Senator Stephen Conroy, Telstra

Windows Phone steps up, has iPhone in sight

New figures from IDC have come out of the US indicating Windows Phone 7 will be more popular than the mighty iPhone in 2015. How is this even likely? It’s all about the operating system, of course.

By Rodney Gedda | 30 March, 2011 11:29

Tags: Android, Apple, IDC, iPhone, Microsoft, smartphones, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7

HP aims to make webOS mainstream

The news from the US overnight is HP will pre-install webOS on all its PCs in 2012. Short of HP deliberately stopping such PC shipments outside the US, Australians will finally get a taste of webOS and an alternative operating system other than Linux distributions and Mac OS X.

By Rodney Gedda | 10 March, 2011 11:17

Tags: Android, HP, iOS, Linux, PCs, tablet PCs, webOS

iPad 2 is here, ahead of the Android posse

We didn’t have to wait long in 2011 for the second-generation iPad to arrive. As expected it’s an incremental improvement over its predecessor, but will it be enough to keep Apple ahead of the impending Android tablet tide?

By Rodney Gedda | 03 March, 2011 11:46

Tags: Android, Apple, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, tablet PCs

Honeycomb tablets to support Flash by Aus launch

Aussies keen to get their hands on an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet like the Motorola Xoom may have to wait, but when they arrive Flash support will be available, unlike the popular iPad.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 February, 2011 11:10

Tags: Android, Flash, Honeycomb, iPad, Motorola, motorola xoom, samsung, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, tablet PCs

HP's phone, tablet strategy comes together with webOS

Less than a year after it acquired Palm for $US1.2 billion, HP has announced the first wave of webOS-based products – two smartphones and a tablet pc – aimed at forging a new mobile device strategy for the company. Now it’s time to see if HP has the muscle to make mobility a success.

By Rodney Gedda | 10 February, 2011 12:53

Tags: HP, Palm, smartphones, tablet PCs, TouchPad, webOS

Vodafone's Android Nexus S an iPhone killer? Hold the line

Having tracked the Android handset space since its inception, if only I had a dollar for every time a report claimed a new "iPhone killer" is about to be released. This time it's the Nexus S which is coming to Vodafone this year. It's a great handset, but let's not rule out the iPhone just yet.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 February, 2011 16:03

Tags: Android, gingerbread, Google, iPhone, Nexus S, samsung, smartphones, Vodafone

How sweet it is: Google splits Android like Honeycomb

This week Google announced the availability of Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”, a release of the Linux-based mobile operating system for tablets and larger touch screen devices. It’s a deviation from Android’s core market, but can we expect the smartphone success to be mirrored with tablets?

By Rodney Gedda | 28 January, 2011 12:22

Tags: Android, Google, Google Android 3.0, Honeycomb, smartphones, tablet PCs

All brand new: an amaysim experience down under

A group of European entrepreneurs have banded together to create a new mobile telecommunications company aimed at the high-volume consumer market, and it even has a local call centre.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 November, 2010 10:44

Tags: amaysim, branding, marketing, mobile services, offshoring, outsourcing

Getting IT set for mobile

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it."

By Scot Finnie | 08 November, 2010 22:11

Tags: applications, consumer electronics, mobile, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile operating systems, Mobile OSes, Phones, smartphones, software, Telecommunication

TV spectrum wireless broadband: Analog back from the dead

This week the CSIRO announced it had succeeded in prototyping the transmission of wireless broadband Internet over spectrum reserved for television broadcasts. This makes an interesting broadband option for Australian's about to lose their analog TV signals.

By Rodney Gedda | 05 November, 2010 07:04

Tags: analogue tv, broadband, csiro, Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), digital tv, ngara, wireless, digital tv switchover

Windows Phone 7: the next great smartphone OS

In recent years the mobile phone space has been upended with the rise of Android and iOS smartphone operating systems. But the arrival this month of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and Nokia's Symbian-based N8 make the battle for mobile computing a four horse race.

By Rodney Gedda | 21 October, 2010 11:59

Tags: Android, iPhone, Microsoft, operating system, smartphones, symbian, Windows Phone 7

Goodbye BlackBerry: Future Belongs to iPhone

Thanks for bringing mobility to the masses, but the future belongs to the iPhone. There are many reasons for this but perhaps the most compelling is, at the heart of Canadian company Research in Motion's (RIM) culture lies an antiquated mobile technology: paging.

By Tom Kaneshige | 14 May, 2010 03:03

Tags: iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, smartphones

Tablet PCs start to get Handii

Earlier this year I wrote a TechWorld blog about Apple’s new iPad and how it may ignite the tablet PC industry. Judging by the number of competing offerings that have popped up since, at the very least we’re in for a lot more tablet choice.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 April, 2010 10:52

Tags: Handii, iPad, tablet PCs

Security Manager Journal: Woes hang up mobile policy

Over the past seven months, I have led a team of IT representatives in making sure that all mobile devices are aligned with our new security policy. I thought this was going to be straightforward -- a few mouse clicks to check off some boxes, and our policy would be in effect on our entire inventory of mobile devices.

By Mathias Thurman | 25 August, 2009 13:29

Tags: mobile phones, mobile security, policy, security, security policy

CreditSMS helps structure informal mobile finance

Mobile commerce is quickly becoming one of the most cost-effective, far-reaching means of giving the 'un-banked' poor their first taste of financial services. Yet many of these services are almost entirely informal, connected to neither banks nor traditional forms of regulation. A new initiative - CreditSMS - aims to integrate m-commerce with traditional financial management tools, thereby formalizing the informal and bridging the financial divide.

By Ken Banks and Benjamin Lyon | 11 August, 2009 05:09

Tags: CreditSMS, mobile commerce

Windows Mobile: Alive and well -- and suitable for business

Having discussed the progress of the iPhone in the enterprise last month, I thought that this month I would take a look at a longtime player, Windows Mobile, and see how it stacks up against the competition these days. And next month, I hope to have some comments on the new Palm Pre and how it fares for business use.

By Michael Gartenberg | 15 May, 2009 04:19

Tags: mobile applications, Windows Mobile

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