Guy Kewney

On Nov. 7, the world will see a new portable PC sold through the IBM brand. Its a computer designed without a display, without a keyboard, without a mouse and even without wireless—all in the interest of building a Windows XP machine that can run for a whole day off a small battery. The sell […]

Just about the only thing there is to know for sure about the new Vodafone-Microsoft partnership is that it is based on XML, and that Bill Gates himself thought it was important enough to justify a personal appearance at Geneva ITU. Microsoft, of course, has a product which is just switching to XML: Office 2003, […]

It really isnt every day you see a brand-new entrant into the GSM phone business; but Sierra Wireless is off to the ITU Telecom World show in Geneva, Switzerland this week with a Microsoft Smartphone. In a year when all the established phone makers are preparing to get to grips with 3G — and beyond […]

Youre required to keep records of all employee transactions over any communication media. Instant Messenger is a problem; but you are probably on the case. Now: did you realise that IM can go out, undetected and unmonitored, over staff cellphones? How many corporates monitor SMS traffic to and from employee cellphones? How many corporates actually […]

It applies whatever the equipment is. It works in consumer and business space; it doesnt matter whether were looking at a frivolous personal amusement application, or the heaviest of heavy-weight corporate productivity tools. Its a litumus test which requires no complex metrics, and no special training is required before you can expertly apply it. You […]

You have to feel some sympathy for Mike McCamon. He runs the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, and basically, he saved the SIG from meltdown when it was about to be torn apart by members trying to announce next years product when this years product wasnt yet working. And he did it. And now, the SIG […]

The poor, you will always have with you. So, too, the cranks, the nutters, the people who write to you in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS with LOTS of EMPHASIS!!!!—and amongst them, come the people who have discovered something called “microwave radiation.” They are going to have a field day with ultrawideband, the fate of which is […]

Cynicism is underrated in the technology business. Any fool can look at a new tool and imagine the utopia it will usher in. It takes a rather special type of cynic to look at the phone and predict the engaged tone, the irritating ring tone, the “network congested” sign and the phone-theft gang. Even so […]

It was Scott McNealy who made fun of me, a couple of short years back, for suggesting that users might care what operating system was inside their mobile phones. “You just switch it on!” he said. Not for the first time, Sun Microsystems CEO was living in the past. These days, you have a choice […]