Category Archives: ICT-stuff

Why I think the Internet will survive even in the medium term

Posted on May 28, 2012 by sim

As the predictable series of crisis starts to bite (climate change, peak energy, deforestation, soil degradation & water scarcity to start with), what will be the first large element of the modern society to buckle? One of the most visionary … Continue reading →

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Diminishing returns in mobile technology

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 by sim

My home PC, almost five years old, still performs all required tasks quite well (I don’t do gaming). While there’s been plenty of technological progress in the past years, a new PC bought today would not accomplish anything fundamentally different … Continue reading →

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Backwater Australia – or maybe not?

Posted on Jul 9, 2011 by sim

There is a general consensus or at least an attitude in Europe that Australia is quite a bit behind in most, particularly technological, things. However, there was also a general consensus in Europe that it was leading the mobile devices … Continue reading →

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The arbitrary and damaging obsession with smartphones (vs others)

Posted on Apr 27, 2010 by sim

Will smartphones end up killing the operator ARPUs? Okay, let’s take a step or two back. In the mobile phone industry, there are few things more misleading than the split to smartphones and other phones. The concept of “smartphones” has … Continue reading →

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Android gets interesting

Posted on Nov 2, 2009 by sim

I’ve been somewhat skeptical on Android over the past couple of years. Now, however, it seems that Google is on to something that can be a game-changer on a few levels – free turn-by-turn navigation with Android, essentially delivering a … Continue reading →

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