Rants And Ramblings About Mobile Technology
Anders Borg writing about the fun and crazy world of mobile and Internet service technologies.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Final entry
This is my final entry in this blog, promise.
I conclude it has made me neither rich nor famous, so I guess I can do better things with my time.
It also times well with Blogger’s closing down of publishing via FTP.
I’ve narrowed down my Internet footprint to LinkedIn and Facebook, so if you want to be my buddy there, just let me know.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
HP acquires Palm
As previously rumored and expected: HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion - TradingMarkets.com
I’m sure HP will continue developing and selling WebOS based phones, but will WebOS survive in the long run?
Monday, April 26, 2010
50k apps in Android Market
Impressive: a raw estimate now says the mobile app store has added 10,000 more apps within at least a few weeks, if not sooner.
Android Market passes 50,000 apps – Electronista
I’m wondering why so many are so worried about the fact that App Store has so many more applications. How many applications will you ever use, and how many applications are distinctively different, and how many are really useful (as in, not complete crap)?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
When magazines go online
I read a note about the free and ad-financed weekly magazine Metro Sweden, that supposedly gets most of its revenue from its recruitment and education portals, and this has generated $1.5M more profit than last year. Other online magazines follow the same pattern.
Hence online magazines more and more become portals to interactive services. The old notion of magazines providing only news and gossip, and being complemented with ads, seems very outdated overall, so this is a sign that magazines are still innovating and stretching the boundary of what a magazine is.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Google Android vs Apple iPhone
Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Huawei and more all have and will have Android phones and they will be available at very attractive price points, making it obvious for operators to promote them in bundled subscriptions. Nokia/Intel will compete with MeeGo, but I actually see a problem for Nokia to compete on the smartphone market, unless they sponsor application development.
In my mind the biggest issues for Android compared to iPhone are device fragmentation and the crappy Android Market.
Can Android Overtake the iPhone- - Tim Bajarin - PCMag.com
Apple Against the World – PCWorld
Microsoft goes social with Kin phones
This is the first time Microsoft provides phones under their own name. Previously they offered Windows Mobile (under many different names over time) to phone manufacturers.
It’s also the first time I’ve seen them endorsing everyday / casual use rather than corporate ditto, which is the right move. The corporate smartphone market is very small in comparison.
The Kin phones are focused on social networking, information access and multimedia, with integrated Zune support.
BBC News - Microsoft debuts 'social' phone
Microsoft's Kin Phones- Super Social and Super Confusing - Lance Ulanoff - PCMag.com
Mobile phones, the new social tool
As hinted about elsewhere on this site, mobile phones are excellent for communication, as you always have access to one, it’s always on, and people can even tell where you are at (if you allow that), it has a instant-use photo and video camera, etc.
It’s also clear that they are excellent for social networking, for the same reasons:
How are Mobile Phones Changing Social Media- - Flowtown (@flowtown)
Top 10 Expectations Of Social Media In 2010
Cell Phones- The 7th Mass Media - Cellphones.org
Volcanoes and air travel don’t mix
This is a sure sign of how sensitive our society is:
Air travel has to be shut down in Northern Europe as volcanic ash from the volcano on Iceland destroys air plane motors. That has inhibited 10s of thousands of people from flying, and secondly it risks making air travel companies go bankrupt as they’ve been under pressure for a long time already, possibly decreasing the amount of such companies and also decreasing goods that go by air for a long time.
For more on the volcano eruption, see here:
BBC News - Volcano erupts in south Iceland
Iceland volcano could have world consequences - Science- msnbc.com
Volcano in Iceland grounds hundreds of transatlantic flights
Iceland Volcano Ash Shuts Down Europe Air Travel
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Huawei and Qualcomm coming to Lund
Considering it’s not going so well for Sony Ericsson at the moment, this is good news for the region. Huawei will set up a mobile phone development lab, so there will be good opportunities for management and engineering jobs.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Twitizer – feeling the pressure
Twitizer has become a bit more popular, which means the server gets more strained, so I added transparent caching of all thumbnail images today.
I also added a “most popular” function to the home and Timeline pages, that counts the views of landing page accesses.
Right now the performance of my web host is pretty bad (read: disastrous), but hopefully the improvements will show their real value tomorrow.
