Symbian OS Becomes Free- June 23, 2008 Symbian OS will be available to all without payment of a license fee. And, to enable this, Symbian becomes a non-profit organisation with Nokia buying out the other current owners. See: www.symbianfoundation.org Note - I'm writing this ahead of the news conference, so more details may emerge soon. Also, I'm...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/symbian_os_beco.html Why UK's Ebbsfleet Fibre Trial is Slow- June 22, 2008 A couple of weeks ago I was quoted on the BBC describing the BTOpenreach Ebbsfleet fibre as slow. What the BBC missed was my emphasis on upload speeds, see the speeds listed here and compare them with other European countries in this report. So, this UK trial is offering just...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/why_uks_ebbsfle.html Free's Fibre-Inspired Acquisition of Alice- June 10, 2008 Free plans to buy Telecom Italia's French ISP business, Alice. ISP markets across Europe continue to consolidate. In the past, Free has focused on organic growth rather than m&a, the main exception was the purchase of niche operator Citfibre. Fibre is a scale business. In areas covered by fibre, Free...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/frees_fiberinsp.html iPhone Release 2.0 - Notes from Europe- June 9, 2008 Interesting points from a European perspective: Worldwide availability on the same date, just a month from now. This takes some doing. Congrats to Apple for understanding that launching in just the US isn't the way to win hearts, minds and wallets elsewhere. So, initial European iPhone purchasers are between one...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/iphone_release.html MobileMe- June 9, 2008 Surely the clue is in the name: this is a personal service for sync'ing personal stuff, not social networking. Or, did I miss something important in the speech while I watched the football, and which is not listed on Apple's MobileMe site (oh yes the photo gallery, surely that's just...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/mobileme.html Mac OS Switching: Will the cat change its spots- June 9, 2008 Using a Mac as my main computer has reminded me how little we are tied to Windows today. All of my main Windows software works on the Mac too: MS Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype, IM, iTunes, Adobe apps, Twirl etc. etc. With the rise of web 2.0 online applications --...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/switching_to_ma.html iPhone- June 9, 2008 Reminder of my post on this from a couple of weeks ago (iPhone Revisited: Signs and Portents). Key quote from there about the original iPhone model: version 1 hardware; version 1 applications; version 1 operating system; version 1 business model. Lets see how many of these Apple changes when, eventually,...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/iphone.html MacBook Air Long Term Hardware Review- June 9, 2008 I've been using a MacBook Air for three weeks as my main computer at work and at home (plus I've used a MBA on and off since it came out). So, I'm going to publish a few entries covering how well the Air has worked. First up, I'll cover the...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/mac_hardware_th.html Coin-Op Public WiFi- June 9, 2008 Some products defy analysis. I could, but it's just not worth the effort here....http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/vendor_punts_co.html Ofcom Intervenes on Speed Marketing- June 4, 2008 Ofcom is introducing a voluntary code of practice on how ISPs should market broadband speeds. This is something I have been advocating for some time (see here on the 'ISP prisoner dilemma' where, back in 2006, I advocated regulator intervention to make speed marketing clearer, or here, or more recently...http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/fogg/archives/2008/06/ofcom_broadband.html |