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Smartphone Denial: Mobile Security
November 17, 2009 – 4:37 pm | Comments
Smartphone Denial: Mobile Security

This is a great time to be a fan of mobile technology. We are able to do more with small, mobile devices then ever before. In fact, there are times when it seems like …

Where is an iPhone NOT an iPhone? In Shanzhai.
November 12, 2009 – 6:55 am | Comments
Where is an iPhone NOT an iPhone? In Shanzhai.

More and more mobile phone and device vendors have been turning their attentions to the enormous Chinese market over the last year….and with good reason. At the start of 2009 there were more than …

Bus Stop Convergence
November 4, 2009 – 1:54 pm | Comments
Bus Stop Convergence

I have been staring at people on the bus a lot lately.
Well, staring more than usual, anyway. You see, I would say at least half of the people I share busses with have earphones …

Attention iPhone users. I need your feedback!
October 29, 2009 – 9:58 am | Comments
Attention iPhone users. I need your feedback!

Howdy folks, I am here with a rare request. I know that we have readers carrying all sorts of devices, so I am reaching out to our iPhone readers. By the way, off the subject, …

Contest – Win a Copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, Signature Edition
October 24, 2009 – 1:25 pm | Comments
Contest – Win a Copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, Signature Edition

Hey guys/gals, I have in my possession, a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, Signature Edition. This is a copy that I planned to give away at my Windows 7 launch party but it didn’t go …

HTC Tilt 2 Comparison Photo Gallery
October 24, 2009 – 12:20 am | Comments
HTC Tilt 2 Comparison Photo Gallery

I have got my hands on the HTC Tilt 2, you know the device I couldn’t wait to get here and now that it’s here, I don’t want it anymore. Yep, that one. I used …

The Internet Archive’s BookServer Project
October 20, 2009 – 4:36 am | Comments
The Internet Archive’s BookServer Project

A party was held in San Francisco last night that could be a preview of the way we will access Ebooks and research materials in the future. The Internet Archive, founded a decade or …

Libraries, Ebooks, and Love Stories
October 15, 2009 – 4:57 am | Comments
Libraries, Ebooks, and Love Stories

International Ebook Month (don’t check your calendars, I made that up…but it feels right doesn’t it?) just keeps getting more and more interesting. A whole crop of hot new readers are just around the …

Sidekicks and Fallout
October 14, 2009 – 7:32 am | Comments
Sidekicks and Fallout

The firestorm that resulted from the recent loss of Sidekick data (and thus effectively the end of the grandfather of all smartphones) is finally settling down. In fact, after all the words written and …

Is Windows Mobile’s Death Exaggerated? I bought an iPhone 3GS.
October 10, 2009 – 11:59 pm | Comments
Is Windows Mobile’s Death Exaggerated? I bought an iPhone 3GS.

I have said this before and I will say it again, even before Windows Mobile 6.5 came out, Windows Mobile wasn’t dead. If anything, it was in hibernation. But seriously, the OS in itself …

Windows MarketPlace for Mobile: Will you shop there?
October 10, 2009 – 11:23 pm | Comments
Windows MarketPlace for Mobile: Will you shop there?

After much anticipation and amidst much fanfare, Microsoft unveiled its Windows MarketPlace for Mobile devices last Tuesday.  The Windows MarketPlace is now open for business for WM6.5 phones, with plans to make it accessible to …

Deja Vu All Over Again: Motorola Making Microsoft’s Mistake
October 7, 2009 – 2:32 pm | Comments
Deja Vu All Over Again: Motorola Making Microsoft’s Mistake

I find it very ironic that Motorola, in completely scorning Windows Mobile and embracing Android with their dying breath as a handset maker, is doing the same thing to Android that Microsoft allowed to …

Windows Mobile 6.5 Review Round Up
October 6, 2009 – 12:16 pm | Comments
Windows Mobile 6.5 Review Round Up

Today is the day that Windows Mobile 6.5 hit the streets. There have been a lot of device announcements already today. There has also been a ton of buzz about Windows Mobile 6.5 today …

Amazon Apologizes For Kindle 1984 Deletion
September 23, 2009 – 3:04 am | Comments
Amazon Apologizes For Kindle 1984 Deletion

I posted in July about Kindle books going up in smoke.  I just found out at Engadget that Amazon has apologized for deleting copies of 1984 from Kindles (even though they were illegal) and offered …

Sprint HTC Hero 1st Impressions and Photo View
September 23, 2009 – 12:27 am | Comments
Sprint HTC Hero 1st Impressions and Photo View

Today, I received the HTC Hero made for Sprint. This will be Sprint’s 1st Android device. This one is the chinless Hero that has the HTC Sense UI on it. If you don’t know what …

The AppStore gets Gross
September 13, 2009 – 4:37 am | Comments
The AppStore gets Gross

With all the hoopla surrounding the recent changes (love them or hate them) to Apple’s iTunes, I think the most profound, far-reaching and interesting change happened not to iTunes itself, but rather to the …

What is Mobilitysite.com?
September 11, 2009 – 11:25 am | Comments
What is Mobilitysite.com?

No, it’s not the Jeopardy answer for “A Great Mobile website run by Chris Leckness”, it’s that and much more. Seriously though, I thought it would be great to tell new readers where Mobilitysite …

Technical Ethics
September 6, 2009 – 8:39 am | Comments
Technical Ethics

Ethics is an issue which comes up now and again here in the high tech sanctuary of the MobilityCave, deep below stately Leckness Manor. After all, we struggle to get the best, most interesting …

Outsmarting Netbooks?
August 25, 2009 – 9:26 am | Comments
Outsmarting Netbooks?

Can the end of the “Netbook Era” already be upon us? What’s more, will the netbook’s extinction event be the return of a technology that had it’s glory days 10 years ago?
I vividly remember …

Kindle Books Could Go Up In Smoke
July 19, 2009 – 12:49 am | Comments
Kindle Books Could Go Up In Smoke

Technorati Tags: Kindle,Amazon,eBooks,Steve Mueller
Some people who bought Kindle versions of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 recently got E-mail saying that there was a "problem" with the books and that the books would be deleted …