Recently I posted on a growing menace in our society - namely that of anti-social ‘people’, who think it’s acceptable to blast out their ‘fave choonz’ from the speaker on their mobile handset, whilst walking/riding/sloping/grunting along in public. I was surprised to find out that this isn’t just a UK phenomenon, oh no… my post attracted [...]

Above you can see the ‘word cloud’ generated by a neat little web app called Wordle. Using this app, you can paste a selection of words, or an RSS/URL in to the interface, and generate your very own customisable word cloud - I think this warrants the classification ‘uber-neat’ You can make your very [...]

Yes it’s been some years since we saw the infamous Ghettoblaster being carried about - apart from the occasional group of disenfranchised youths sat on steps listening to one, it’s very rare we see them. Much more common is the generic “boy-racer” who has pimped his Fiesta to have a “sound system” (I believe youngsters [...]

It's a slow news day. You gotta love summer. I came across this video of the BMW GINA concept car. The idea behind this car is that the skin acts more like a malleable cover than a rigid-metallic material that requires all manner of hinges, seams, and joints. You gotta love BMW. Macenstein mentioned that it would [...]

In one of the more interesting articles I've read this week, a discussion is raised about whether mobile devices can be used as learning tools in the classroom. Many peoples' initial reactions would I am sure be "that's outrageous!", but actually, there are some good arguments for it… Eric Klopfer, MIT professor and director of MIT's [...]

No doubt you read my previous post on the future of voice, and had your thoughts provoked - however, since then, SpinVox have hosted a session on the future of voice. Their chief of "Interweb bloggery", James Whatley, was present, along with their VP of consumer business, James Scroggs. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend, due [...]

(BTW, the chap in the cup is a SpinVox "Mobster"….) My favourite VTT (Voice-to-text) company, SpinVox, have raised an interesting thread for conversation in their blog (read it here). More accurately, James Whatley, their "chief of interweb wizardry and bloggery", has written an inciteful and thought provoking piece on where "voice" (as in one of the [...]

Microsoft released an invite only beta to their Mesh service recently, a service that currently is meant to sync your files and folders across multiple machines and to the cloud. Everyone is saying what's the point? The point is Microsoft just laid down one of the key pieces of infrastructure for the future of the [...]

I'm calling out Tony Lewis, Verizon Wireless’ newly-appointed VP of Open Development, for saying this sentence: “The only way this is going to work is if it’s a true partnership between carriers, devices and applications. Any independent part can work, but not individually. Tony Tony Tony, what do you sit in front of every day? What do [...]

I am sure you are all familiar now with the debacle that was the launch of BA Terminal 5 at Heathrow - essentially over 20,000 bags were/are "lost" (temporarily or otherwise) during the ensuing chaos, after the terminal opened - and a LOT of passengers clearly were/are not very happy about it! Silicon.com has aggregated a [...]