MIR hands-on with the Motorola CLIQ launch in San Francisco
Our very own Michael Selvidge — our man in San Francisco — was at the Motorola Android event last week. He’s filed this piece and a Youtube video (made on his still-glistening iPhone 3GS) for us. Over...
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CTIA Fall 2009 — Android’s Coming Out Party
The Fall CTIA is always the red-headed step child of the two CTIAs. At least they usually happen in San Francisco, the new center of the mobile universe, but this year, the Fall CTIA was in San Diego,...
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Why the Nokia N900 is No Better Than an HTC Mogul — Updated
OK, I know the Nokia N900 is a much better phone than the HTC Mogul. Obviously the hardware and the OS it runs are light-years ahead of it. So if you’ll excuse the link-bait headline, I will proceed to...
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Killer Androids Attack Redmond
Killer robots sent to destroy WinMo A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about CTIA in which I said that Android could be the next Windows Mobile. Obviously, this story was read by Saul Hansell of...
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Preview – MIR at Open Mobile Summit
Ahoy! I’m heading out to the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco tomorrow. Have a look at the agenda and tell me, dear MIR readers, whom should I make sure I talk to? I’ll probably write up a post at...
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Funambol Acquires Zapatec (OMS)
Funambol (previously covered by Ewan here) is kicking off the OMS show with some early news. Later today, Funambol will announce its acquisition of Zapatec, a provider of AJAX Web 2.0 solutions (not a...
View ArticleWhat the Droid and the Zune Have in Common
Remember back when the iPod was the coolest thing around? The phrase “iPod Killer” is something seemingly every personal media player (PMP) that came out, was at some point, deemed to be. It turns out,...
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App Review (iPhone)  Shoeboxed, a stonking way to manage receipts
Processed Receipt I have been meaning to try the Shoeboxed app for the iPhone, and a recent business trip to New York was the perfect opportunity. The idea behind Shoeboxed is solid, it is definitely a...
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The iPad is nothing but an oversized iPhone–now where does the line form to...
Yes, it has a cringe-worthy name. Yes it’s a closed development environment. Yes it’s $500 I don’t NEED to spend. Yes it is highly derivative of the iPhone. Yes it has a huge bezel. Yes it’s on...
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How Microsoft Got its Groove Back(?)
So everyone is talking about the news from Barcelona: Microsoft is flirting with relevance again in the mobile space. How? By burning the house down, throwing the baby out with the bath-water or any...
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iPad, iPad iPad. iPad? iPad… iPad!
As the title to this post might suggest, the iPad has been on my mind, and if Techmeme is an accurate zeitgeist of the webernets, it’s on everyone else’s mind too. As I write this, 10 of the top 12...
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San Francisco: Conferenceville, USA
Ahoy from sunny SF, MIR readers! Ewan has been giving us the goods from BlackBerry DevCon all week, all the while a small local blog called TechCrunch had its own Disrupt conference in our humble...
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Windows Phone 7: Excellent, Also Doomed?
Can Microsoft do it? Can they really come back from the dead in the mobile game? I asked these questions when Seventh Windows Mobile Phone Seven Series Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 was introduced at last...
View ArticleMobilize 2010: Tango–Think Cross-Platform FaceTime Over 3G
I had a chance to check out a cool new free iPhone/Android app that officially launched today at Mobilize: Tango Video Calls. Tango enables 3G VoIP and video calls between any two users who both have...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s WP7 Ad Campaign: Buy Our Unsexy Phones!
Oh deary me. By all accounts, Microsoft have made themselves a nice little smartphone OS in Windows Phone 7, but alas, they are shooting themselves in the foot with a very clever, very slick, very...
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FT, You’re Missing the Point With Your HTML 5 iPad Web App (an open letter to...
FT. Don’t get me wrong. I know what you are trying to do here with your HTML 5 web app. It’s actually pretty slick, and delivers on a lot of the promises about HTML 5 that I’ve been hearing lo these...
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The Truth About iMessage in iOS 5: It’s Sublime
For years, I’ve been told about how cool BBM is on the BlackBerry. BlackBerry users tried to tell me why it was so cool, but they never succeeded. It always ended with a “You have to use it yourself,...
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Google+ and the Android Trojan Horse
I was skeptical at first, but I think there is a future in Google+. I’ve been using it this last week, and it’s not perfect, but not bad either. I was skeptical because of Google’s massive social fails...
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Review – Speck SeeThru case for MacBook Air 11″– Speck-tacular!
Anyone who knows me knows that I am an Apple fanboy. But I have room in my heart to be another kind of fanboy–especially when it feeds my fanboyism for Apple. I’m talking about my lust for Speck, the...
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Saving RIM in Three Easy Steps
Since RIM’s disastrous “earnings” report last week, and their CEO’s insane (either that or completely out of context) comments, a lot of people have been dancing on their soon-to-be grave. And even...
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