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Australian game censorship board wants power over iPhone games
Many countries have censorship boards for video games (btw: Austria doesn’t). These boards tend to be made up of useless government officials who think to understand the market, but sometimes fail at the very first level of the game they shoul...
3.5″ headphone jacks – close catch, CTIA
The CTIA’s announcement of plans to standardize around 3.5″ headphone jacks is timed excellently – while stumbling through my mail, I found the part pictured below: Dallas Maxim’s MAX145xx series was introduced in 2008, and ...
On business development
Seth Godin’s blog is difficult to classify, but tends to be extremely interesting for entrepreneurs and marketers alike. His latest post is extremely interesting for all those of you in the mobile space. Seth basically asks whether your company c...
Why Apple’s app store succeeds while others fail
This email recently was sent out to each and every user on Apple’s mailing list: No words needed IMHO… Related posts:Apple IPOD not designed by Apple themselvesOn asking the right peopleAttention to all GMAIL users-DONT FOLLOW THE GMAI...
tele.ring Austria: negotiate your monthly contract rate
Austria has always been an extremely interesting country for all things carrier: 6 million inhabitants on 8 carriers are not a healthy situation for any of them. So far, contracts were non-negotiable. However, T-Mobile’s discount subsidiary te...
Cell phone cameras – taken apart
A recent trip to Carl Zeiss provided me with the opportunity to analyze camera phone components – enjoy the images below. First of all, a look at the size. The component on the left is a complete camera assembly, which is then followed by a CCD...
CDMA reaches 500 million users
Users sitting in Western Europe rarely hear about CDMA handsets, and consider them “a dying breed” limited to the USA. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth – the CDMA Development Group has just stated that there are now more than ...
802.11n finally becomes IEEE standard
802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN’s are an industry standard managed by an US institute known as IEEE. Unfortunately, they are dead slow…which has prompted hardware manufacturers to roll a new standard of their own. Dubbed 802.11n, hardware implementing ...
O’Reilly to webOS book purchasers: f### off
We have advertised O’Reillys webOS book quite a bit in the past – unfortunately, it looks like the free press they got was undeserved. My wife just received the following email from the company (or, should I say, shack): Dear Doris Mari...
Pay-per-character SMS hit India
In the US and Europe, SMS usage is declining – why pay a carrier top cash if you can send an email (which can contain more text) for less? In India, smartphones seem to be less common…which is why the local carrier TaTa DoCoMo has introdu...
NTT DoCoMo plans US network – upcoming culture clash
The Japanese cell phone market has always been completely different from the US/European one: handsets which perform well in Japan are extremely unlikely to do well anywhere else and vice versa. Nokia tried to gain a foothold there for some years, an...
BrightHand releases mind share stats for August 2009
BrightHand has just released its mindshare stats for the month of August. The current list looks as follows: Samsung Solstice (new) Nokia E71 and E71x (#4) Nokia E63 (#1) Nokia N97 (#9) RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (#2) RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (n...
Microsoft Austria: new netbooks coming soon
Microsoft Austria has just gone into all-in mode regarding Windows 7. A social press event was held, and Microsoft Austria’s OEM manager declared the following: Many vendors are waiting for Windows 7 to release new hardware. In particular, exp...
On venture capitalists and mobile software
ChubbyBrain has just released an extremely interesting analysis of US venture capitalist spending. First of all, a look at platform choice. At ChubbyBrain’s, multi-platform means that a house targets two or more of the platforms listed in the ...
PSA: Sprint ETF settlement – there’s cash to fetch
All those of you who have had a Sprint contract for some time should be made aware of the current ETF settlement – all those of you who are member of the group of people described by the sentence below should hit this link ASAP: … All Pe...
Mobile World Congress 2010 – start booking NOW
Dear Readers, in case you feel like going to the Mobile World Congress next year: book trip and hotel ASAP! I have just gone through the hassles of trying to get a room, and failed miserably at various hotels due to lack of free space. Yes, the event...
