DISQUS

When I click on Options in Google Maps Mobile (S60 version) and select Latitude, there are 'privacy options' including one to "Hide your location".
Maybe Tom Brake's PDA(!) version doesn't have that. Or maybe he's a clueless, attention-seeking MP.
But I'd consider that sufficient to preserve my oh-so-secret whereabouts.

HooperFail.

Greedy and grasping.
No not the pirates, Follett and Rowling!
Presumably the Times couldn't find any worthy authors desperately struggling to keep a roof on their proverbial garret?

Still want to see the guys go camping.
Maybe that's where the shoes fit in? ;-)

How much will the subscription be?

I'm gutted that you're selling out.
Both for the tens of thousands of regular (and compulsive) readers presumably to be dumped at the kerbside and the great team of contributors you've built up who, I'd guess, won't get anything like the buzz when reporting for perhaps a hundred minted industry execs.

I'm sure you've made the right business decision Ewan, but I can't deny the news is most unwelcome.

How many times does it ask which access point you want to use in 10 minutes of browsing?
How many clicks before you can actually start typing an SMS/email to a specific contact?
Does it receive imap emails instantly or just check the server every x minutes?
If you punch 46277, does it ask if you want to use your GMaps shortcut?
Can the E75's IM client cope with GTalk contacts?

GrandCentral meets MaxRoam on steroids?
Telecom 3.0 indeed!

The best video review I've seen of the Pre -- thanks and congrats to the MIR team.

And mark me down as another sale despite the crappy keyboard!

Great photo!
Talk about menacing... :-)

"I hope somebody from EMI reads this and actually understands that they're conceptually living in an age before the advent of CD burners."

Especially when the album was released (maybe in Australia?) in October 2008!

It'll only be a problem for those who lie about their location to people that they are supposed to trust.
And I can't think of a reason why they would activate the facility in the first place...

I'd hazard a guess that you've no idea about the backstory to Jaiku or it's unique position in the microblogging field.
And as for your lecture on neocon micro-economic theory...

I love the way Posterous handles pdf files!
Just attach them to your email to have them easily available from your mobile(s).
Example: http://ceedee.posterous.com/two-tunnels-path

I'd like to know the total number of 'air miles' travelled by delegates and Orange staff; the event's overall carbon footprint and why the hell it needs to be in Florida, rather than Manchester, Bristol or Paris?

(Disclosure: I earn a proportion of my income in the production of similar events in the UK.)

Nokia's N97 demo video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2Li74EYew
Nokia Conversations' "the great Fondle Video":http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-elt8MN3I

I'm very impressed with how far Nokia have come but I'm also in the hopeful but sceptical camp.

Robert wrote: "I really loved the Flex and would love to have one, other than the gas mileage was only about 17MPG in my experience."
Just for comparison's sake, I get between 5-6 kms/litre (about 17 mpg(US) from my fully-loaded 7.5 tonne truck. How the hell does Ford (another wave to Scott Monty) justify that ridiculous fuel consumption for a CAR?

Nuclear power can only be a short-term fix (and a dangerous and massively polluting one at that) -- uranium is expected to become scarce within a couple of decades, even sooner given the likely expansion of power plants to reduce oil dependency.
Oh, and where are you thinking of storing all the spent fuel, irradiated equipment, etc. for a couple of thousand years?

I (for one...) would be very interested to hear how you get on switching it to Three, what O2 services you lose and your overall verdict.

Once you've polished the screen and washed your hands, of course! :)

Magazines are even closer to being finished than newspapers!
Just imagine when those MSM mags will hit the streets? Something tells me they'll be somewhat less than relevant by then.

Doomed, I tell ya!

Of course you're right, Dude.
O2 and, to a lesser extent, CPW should by now have added comments to every one of the pained articles here on SMStn by now, even if only to apologise for the cock-ups.

Dunno about calling them evangelists tho' -- a less right-on title might help their wider adoption among the Luddites.

Keep at it, mate. You know it makes sense!
:)

Let's face it: O2 are shit useless!
If even their friendly PR-droids had an ounce of sense they'd be trawling mobile blogs and forums explaining the problems and reassuring customers. But after 17 hours of this post being published, there's nothing but silence.

Even Orange couldn't turn this series of glitches into such a disaster!

How long before you come up with a virtual conference system as an alternative to shipping folk halfway around the world?
Wonder how much fuel / released CO2 such a system might save?

MobileToday have details of VF's new business plans:

"Vodafone has unveiled new business tariffs which focus on mobile email and internet to satisfy a growing number of workers on the move.
"The Vodafone Total Business plans will be launched on 2 June targeting small to medium enterprises.
"They will replace the existing Sharetime Plus and Small Business price plans.
"The new plans include individual text packs and mobile internet and email packs which can be added to specific users within a company.
"The mobile internet and mobile email packs come in two sizes - standard usage bundles offer 500MB while high usage bundles offer 5GB."

@Michele - while I too dislike anodyne, please-all statements from company representatives, the CEO highlighted in the account on Tom's blog could have got his point across to it's wider readership far more effectively had he left his emotions at the door.

And as you've brought it up, I particularly didn't want to call his honesty into question as I suspect (and hope that) Blueface has mistaken Tom for another, less co-operative, ex-customer.

"Should the CEO get involved in an online debate about their brand?
"Yes, yes, yes, YES!"

Paul, I think you may have accidentally omitted the final sentence of the paragraph?

"But senior executives ought to remember that such exchanges are in the public domain and therefore ensure all responses are polite, helpful and, above all, professional!"

hth

Guys, guys... get back to the story!

Over the Christmas holidays, Google got more hits from iPhones (2% of total smartphones) than Symbian phones (60+%).

I am no Apple fanboy, but that's a remarkable explosion in use of the mobile internet and could have widespread implications, not least for Nokia.
For how long will Google invest in developing for three operating systems?


Seemingly on another planet, UK pre-Christmas iPhone sales were terrible.