The easiest way I had to think of the Werkbench application was imagine if Roger Linn designed a steam-punk version of the Akai MPC60 and it was transformed into an iPad application. It has an intuitive interface like early drum machines. If it took MIDI instructions it would be an ideal way of building tracks. [...]
When I started off having an interest in DJing I went around to a a friend’s house whose older brother was into audio engineering. As well as having one of the first set of Technics 1200s I had ever seen he had a Revox B77 tape recorder. He used to record tracks on to the [...]
Hong Kong-based independent mobile industry analyst Tomi Ahonen is one of the most prominent critics of Nokia. One of the points that Ahonen makes is that the Nokia N9 (based on the MeeGo operating system; parts of which has now been incorporated into Samsung’s mobile operating system Tizen) is more attractive than the equivalent Nokia [...]
The phenomena of BYOD (bring your own devices) is where employees bring their own computing devices into work. It is not something radical or particularly new despite what trends blogs may have you believe. I have with one exception at Pirate Communications had a company phone and never had a company smartphone. Much of the [...]
I’ve only had PC envy with a couple of devices during my twenty something years at a Mac user: The IBM ThinkPad 701 series with its butterfly keyboard The Sony Vaio PCG C1 series of notebooks In common with the 701, Sony’s C1 impressed me with its product design. In a pioneering design for 1998, [...]
I’ve been a Mac user for almost all of my computer-owning adult life and there have only been a couple of devices that have ever given me PC-envy. The first one was the IBM ThinkPad 701, my friend at college Jouni whom I lived in halls with at the time had a 701 and the [...]
Preamble – I decided to write this post after careful consideration. On one hand I didn’t want the companies involved to suffer because one executive had a loud mouth, on the other hand it raised interesting questions about the state of the Android eco-system. So I decided to thinly veil the identities of the different [...]
I have been using my iPod down the gym and found my present headphones inadequate for my needs. I was looking for a set of headphones that were gym friendly, that didn’t completely seal me off from my surroundings, but at the same time stayed in my ears. I looked at a number of designs [...]
One of the things that I had been thinking about for a while was the way the smartphone handset market; in particular the Android eco-system had had the value hollowed out of the business for the manufacturers. In some ways this process seemed to mirror what happened in the PC market through the 1990s and [...]
Early January means CES in the tech calendar as the media gives its full attention to the consumer electronics sector. With some 2,600 exhibitors there was a lot of news coming out of the event. But I was more interested in some of the more macro trends that you could see from the coverage and [...]
I currently have two mobile phones, an iPhone 3GS for all that stuff that smart phones do and texting. My second phone is a Samsung B5702 DUOS phone that does my voice calls. Its a great phone with a week long battery life and a space for two SIMs. With the Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS, [...]
Here are the notes I made from a panel discussion on the benefits of the mobile web versus a native application. Things broadly split down with the technical rationale for the web; applications seems to be much more about what consumers want. There seemed to be an assumption that mobile network access is of a [...]
I got an email from eBay promoting that it was selling 500 Samsung Galaxy tablets at a discount. It was an interesting tactic probably being used as part of a wider campaign to try and get a critical mass of tablets out there and hopefully build a bit of buzz in the face of Apple’s [...]
It was only a matter of time before someone turned the Kinect into a controller for an adult-themed metaverse called ThriXXX. Its all a bit creepy and sad in my book, though some cyber-futurists will herald it as a further step towards all of us becoming The Lawnmower Man. If it takes off (and I [...]
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