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I’m keen on gadgets and I like to take them with me almost everywhere I go. This includes boating. I’m a canal boat owner and so my phone spends lots of time on the water. Boating and smartphone’s go together well because I can photograph and blog the wonderful experiences I enjoy aboard ship. However, [...]

The connected car is not a new concept but the increasing availability of high speed mobile connections and the widespread use of smart mobile devices is allowing developers to get smarter with connected systems. At the 2013 Mobile World Congress I had a demo of Ford’s Applink, a system which connects your car to your [...]

I’ve been using mobile telephones since the very early days. My first mobile phone, if you can call it that, was a Motorola 4500X from the late 80s. This beast had a handset resembling a contemporary desktop phone and was connected to a hefty battery pack by a curly cord. Despite the massive battery, resulting [...]

Huawei are a huge company with big ambitions. No surprise then that they’ve jumped on the phablet bandwagon with their Ascend Mate. Complete with a 6.1inch, a 1.5ghz quad core processor and running Android, it seems to have everything you’d expect from a phablet. Except maybe a big price tag – reports suggest it’ll be [...]

After years of work to make mobile phones small and compact, the trend has suddenly reversed. This year at Mobile World Congress the buzz is all about large format phones and small tablets. This is the age of the phablet. Samsung go large #MWC13 par orangecorporate Samsung launched their new 8″ screen phablet here in [...]

Glenn Le Santo walking, talking and gawping at 

Mobile World Congress 2013 is go! MWC 2013 is taking place in eight large halls in Barcelona, all of them stuffed to the rafters with gadgets, tech and geeks. This year my colleague Edouard Austin and I are focusing on the increasingly popular large form factor phones. [...]

Dr. Henry Samueli is the CTO and co-founder of Broadcom. You may not have heard of Broadcom but you almost certainly have used their products because almost all internet traffic passes through a Broadcom chip at some time during its journey around the Web. I sat down for a chat with him during the Orange [...]

What is it that makes Silicon Valley and the Bay Area such a hot bed of technological innovation and billion dollar companies? The answer is simple, there’s a matrix in existence there that both supports and drives the area’s phenomenal success. This matrix is mature and it’s also hard to replicate. At its roots it [...]

R&D is essential to any company’s future. If your technology, products and services don’t continue to develop, neither will your business. Traditionally, R&D was done in specialist labs and departments dedicated to finding new or better ways of doing things. Citrix are like any large technical infrastructure company, they have plenty of R&D activity going [...]

A business leader friend of mine likes to say that culture beats strategy every day. I completely agree with him. Culture is the thing that gets the work done within a company. If your culture sucks then achievement is difficult. Your company will be hampered if your culture is broken or deficient. During our tour [...]

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