Guy Kewney

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 […]