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My Samsung Galaxy S II (& Telstra) just showed me a little bit more love !!!

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Since getting my Samsung Galaxy S II it’s been hard to decide what is the most striking feature…

Other than Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) being a superb operating system, you can’t believe your eyes at how brilliant the 4.3in Super AMOLED Plus display is, and how immune it is to direct sunlight – [...]

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Watch out !!! The Androids are coming !!!

Android-demolition

According to Nielsen’s latest report on manufacturer operating system share–smartphones the Android platform now accounts for 29 percent of smartphones, beating out RIM BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS, each with 27 percent of the market.

Windows platforms grabbed 10 percent of the market followed by HP’s Palm OS with 4 percent and Symbian with [...]

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Telstra wants to turn mobile internet users into a TRIBE

Last week (9 June 2010) I was lucky enough to listen to Telstra CFO John Stanhope addressed the annual Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference here in Melbourne.

One of the points he reinforced was about the boom in social networks via mobile.

Of the five million 3G mobile customers he advised that over [...]

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Testing, testing…1,2,3….

This is one of those stories that are sometimes hard to believe…but then again…so I head over to cnet news. Sure enough – “IBM: We distributed malware-ridden USB drives” at an Australian security conference. There is that old rule that says IF IT CAN HAPPEN IT MOST PROBABLY WILL… [...]

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