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Today’s the big day of the iPad 3 launch
Mines on the way, its just left the UK
Have you noticed how many people are now travelling with their iPad, it appears that its the business tool of choice now for everyone you see in airports, with that in mind,We have been working hard here on a [...]

 
I wrote a blog last Christmas “SMS is dead, long live IM” where I lamented the death of SMS, I really believed over the next few years that SMS would come under intense pressure from a number of sources like KIK, Ping Chat and many others. All of these have now been completly overtaken by Apple’s [...]

I have listened to the positves and the negatives from the iPhone 4 debacle for the last few weeks and I seriously can’t believe how this non story is still running.
I am obviously not an Apple Fanboy however I do use the iPhone, I am also an Android user.
Job’s frustration is easy to see [...]

I have written about voice over 3G quite a lot in the past, its also been covered by an amount of people that I really respect in the the telephony community.
I have been “Test driving” it today with 5 by 9 quality calls to Jim Courtney in Canada, James Cotter in Prague, Jeb Brilliant in [...]

I was having coffee with Damien Mulley, John Peavoy and Enda Crowley when O2 Ireland and iPad was mentioned, my ears pricked up and it turned out that O2 have launched an Irish iPad SIM today.
So off we went to the O2 store and purchased one, €20 for 5GB, this is a really competitive price [...]

In another interesting move post their Chirp developer conference where they assured the development community that Twitter would always be there for them Twitter has launched a new Android client.
So I suppose the first question is, whats it like?
Its really excellent, the landing page is superb and with a bunch of really cool features below [...]

Fantastic news from Apple just crossed my desk
Apple® today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. Entertainment, as well as European studios including E1 Entertainment, Lionsgate UK and Optimum Releasing are now [...]

I have been asked how to do this at least 20 times this week alone by iPad purchasers.
Its incredibly easy and I got the tip from Bernie @topgold almost a year ago
“1. Start iTunes from a fresh log-in. This means you need to log out of any other account. I normally toggle out of the [...]

Firstly and most importantly don’t take this device out and about, a constant flow of complete strangers will touch you, prod you and interrogate you.
Thats what came from the first few hours of having this incredible device.
After 48hrs I really don’t want to be parted from the iPad to be honest.

Being an avid reader its [...]

I have been dwelling over the schoolbook space for quite a while now and noticing some really interesting companies in the space.
Primary among these is Chegg a book rental scheme which saves renters 50-75% on these retail cost of college books and says it has saved its customers almost $200 million.
An interesting announcement from Chegg [...]