For the past two years I have paneled a mobile technology panel around the issue of mobile technology and politics at the SXSW Festival in Austin texas. Every year SXSW allows you to submit you panel which is then voted on by readers like you. This year I have a [...]

HTC is known for making the world's most popular Windows Mobile handsets. While their handset designs are often well thought out, practical and efficient, they are hardly ever accused of being hip and stylish. The European HTC Touch Diamond is trying to break that mold by giving it a minimalist [...]

HSBC Bank CIO Brenton Hush is apparently stuck in the Jobs' Reality Distortion Field. In a move that is raising quite a few eyebrows, Hush has told ZDnet that HSBC is considering replacing their corporate Blackberrys currently in use with 200,000 new 3G iPhones. According to ZDnet: Global banking giant [...]

Ok, folks, something's up with Apple. Even the Apple haters out there usually admit that Apple creates polished products- they tend to not cut corners on manufacturing, and give their users a high quality product that is user friendly. This, at least, was the justification for the higher price tag [...]

Battery experience and MobileMe syncing aside, the new iPhone goodness package has been a joy. Thus far I have gone a little application store trigger happy and have downloaded a slew of games and applications to my heart's content. And thats when I began noticing something going awfully wrong. No, [...]

Well, it appears T-Mobile is finally playing catch up in the data network arena. The folks over at tmonews.com have managed to get a picture of a sign posted outside a meeting, presumably of T-Mobile execs or some such. The sign clearly states that T-mobile will be rolling out its [...]

This weeks 133rd Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at the blog of Vision Mobile, a market analysis and strategic advisory firm in the wireless sector that I personally would like to learn more about. Anyways, the Carnival is full of a variety of iPhone goodness (including a post [...]

Palm has had better days. Once leading the pack in mobile computing, Palm of late seems to be clinging to life by resigning itself to the ranks of hardware manufacturers like HTC. Palm fanboys lamented the day Palm announced it had embraced Windows Mobile in their lineup of devices, and [...]

Everyone is psyched up about Android, but Google is still sitting on their new OS for the next few months. Its no secret that HTC is behind some of the first handsets to run Android, so that got people thinking- will Android be available on current HTC handsets when it [...]

The 132nd Carnival of the Mobilists is over at the blog for Mippin (which I guess means you can also read it on your mobile phone :-)). Anyway, I read most of the articles this morning and its an amazing array of posts and a majority of them are not [...]

So, I am not what you would call a “techie.” I don’t have to be first in line for every new gadget. I don’t own an iPod. I don’t even own a television. However, my Blackberry (which I loved very much) went missing a couple weeks ago, and with that [...]

I posted on my personal blog a couple of days ago that the 3G iPhone is still lacking some features, and that I was sort of disappointed to hear that's it. Ok, fine, so it has a GPS chip too… but I think most people would rather have a storage [...]

Windows Mobile, while it may have plenty of shortcomings, is still one of the most popular mobile operating systems in use today. However, there are many factors that may change that soon- Symbian is going open source, the iPhone is becoming "unlocked", and Android's release is imminent… So, what will [...]

Last week, MoPocket creator Justin Oberman and I were invited to visit the Digital Experience! show here in New York. In addition to the new products being showcased by some big names at the event, there were also a few new start ups and fresh faces, which is always nice [...]

I know its a little late but like Rudy said it is the first week of summer. Anyways, incase you have not already seen it the 129th Carnival of the Mobilists is over at by good friend Rudy's M-Trends blog. Rudy, who has been more busy than ever, did a [...]

Its been a long time since MOPocket has taken part of the Carnival of the Mobilsts and I am so happy to see some familiar faces as well as meet some of the new mobile blogs. Anyways, for its first entry into the carnival after a long while MOPocket entered [...]

This upcoming Monday, July 16th Mobile Monday New York will be hosting a very innovative discussion of social networkings mashup with the mobile medium. It promises to be a lively discussion from a vast array of experience regarding this inevitable phenomenon. Why do I say inevitable? Because what is a [...]

Being the predictable Mobile Addict that I am, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to attend the SofCon 2008 convention in Santa Clara, California. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the future of Mobile Technology, and the panels of speakers were chosen for their relative expertise in this [...]

The term Smartphone is thrown around a lot in current marketing, but how many people can actually peg a definition to it? Personally, coming from a background in Windows CE development, I usually hear the term Smartphone to refer to the following: A low-profile Windows Mobile device that incorporates a [...]

The m-commerce initiatives in the GSM arena make a lot of sense. The mobile sub without a bank account is a much more compelling target for marketing in the physical world than the online one. Besides wallet concepts like M-Pesa, SmartPay, and gCash (below), the GSMA has been exploring a [...]

The m-commerce initiatives in the GSM arena make a lot of sense. The mobile sub without a bank account is a much more compelling target for marketing in the physical world than the online one. Besides wallet concepts like M-Pesa, SmartPay, and gCash (below), the GSMA has been exploring a [...]

There’s a big hole in online payments that I wanted to blog about. Small payments of a few USD are expensive to receive. Visa charges 20¢ to process any transaction fee and PayPal can charge 30¢. Apple offers digital goods priced at $1, but, if you notice your iTunes bill, [...]

A month ago my friend Ken Banks of Kiwanja launched a competition that encourages grassroots NGOs in developing countries to submit ideas on ways they could use text messaging in their work. This can be in health, human rights, the environment, activism, education or whatever. The best four entries will [...]

Motorola recently filed a patent for a cell phone display that doubles as a solar cell. Apparently, the screen will be able to charge a cell phone's battery when the display is exposed to the sun. It's doubtful the phone would get all its juice form the sun. Rather, sunlight [...]