Phone gaming has every customer and no shop
There are more than two billion mobile phones in use and nearly all of them can run a game. That is the…
Three iPhone questions the demo could not answer
Nobody outside Apple has used the iPhone, it does not ship until June, and I have now read several thousand words of…
The format war is being decided by a games console
Everyone is scoring this fight on the wrong board. The trade press counts standalone players shipped and discs available at retail, both…
Three months in, the PS3 has one game worth buying it for
Three months after launch there is exactly one game I would tell somebody to buy a PlayStation 3 for, and Sony needs…
Twitter’s character limit is a billing artefact
I have been using Twitter for about six weeks and I still cannot give a good account of why. The description makes…
HTC is putting its own name on the box at last
For most of this decade HTC has built other companies’ phones and let them put their own names on the result, and…
Nokia’s real business is the phone nobody writes about
Nokia makes the most technically accomplished phones in the world and it is not close. The current N-series has a five megapixel…
LG shipped a touchscreen phone and nobody noticed
LG has a phone on sale in Europe with no keypad at all, operated entirely by touching the screen with a finger,…
Google bought YouTube an audience and a defendant
Viacom sent YouTube a demand this month covering more than a hundred thousand clips. That is not a housekeeping exercise. It is…
Sony Ericsson’s W880 makes 9.4mm feel like a promise, not a spec
Sony Ericsson announced the W880 today, well, W880 for most markets and W888 for a couple, which I will not pretend to…
Samsung’s F700 hedges where Apple refused to
Samsung brought a touchscreen phone with a slide-out keyboard to Barcelona this month, six weeks after Apple announced one without the keyboard,…
Microsoft Launches Windows Vista Operating System After Five-Year Development, Faces Compatibility Challenges
Microsoft launched Windows Vista operating system on January 30, 2007 following five-year development period under “Longhorn” codename, introducing redesigned Aero graphical interface…
Two months on, the Wii shortage hasn’t eased
The Wii has been on sale for two months, it is still not reliably available in shops, and I am now fairly…
TiVo needed the people it was robbing
TiVo makes the best digital video recorder anyone has built and is losing to boxes that are worse in every respect. The…
CES got upstaged by a keynote 400 miles away
Twenty thousand people spent this week walking a convention centre in Las Vegas and the only product anybody wants to discuss was…