Inside View

Apps Work Smoother for Creatives

I'm a big proponent of the mobile web but based on cross-talk on Google Plus, I've discovered I use native apps a lot more than I admit. That's largely because I prefer to app my way into content creation. Try creating an Audioboo on th...

Best App for Blackberry

BLACKBERRY OWNERS should check out FreeNews, one of the smartest applications I've used on my mobile phones. In fact, you don't need a Blackberry -- smartphones run FreeNews. If you like to read your news sources while on the move, FreeN...

Comparing Jaiku to Twitter

AS JYRI ENGESTROM, front man for Jaiku, showed Google's business development team an inside view of Jaiku, Pat Phelan asked the Jaiku community to explain why he should migrate from Twitter to Jaiku. The resultant commentary provides an ...

Money in Sunday News

A QUICK SCAN of the Irish Sunday newspapers reveals plenty of stories (and some inserts) concerning money. That's a nice topic to consider around Christmas time, innit? Even when you factor out payments (pronounced "dig out" in Irish) to...

First look at Walkman W910i phone

WITHOUT A MANUAL, we figured out how to pop off the back cover of the newest gadget in my wife's purse (see the phone at left) and then to do fun things. The newbie, a SonyEricsson W910i, replaces the first generation Walkman phone that ...

The Little Warning from O2

A FEW YEARS AGO I spent a few days in London and got charged EUR 248 for using my mobile phone. Every day I was in London, the fee averaged out to more than $300 a day. This year, O2 spotted my data use after EUR 64 and cut me off. Tha...

Mobile Youth in Ireland

Bernie Goldbach in LSAD-Clonmel | Image of our digital native. THINKHOUSE PR SURVEY results clearly show a comfortable relationship between Irish youth and mobile phones. They are "very firmly co-dependent". [1] Thinkhouse discovered "...

Christmas Bill Shock h/t @klillington

I READ Karlin Lillington's byline in The Irish Times and she has shared several relevant consumer items about the costs and hazards of technology. Her cautionary note about the prospects of encountering bill shock related to mobile phone...

Impressed by Veed.io #EdChatie

By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel. Screenshot by @topgold. I STARTED EXPERIMENING with Veed.io on my Samsung Note 9 handset. Here are a few impressions concerning mobile content production, project templates, and workflow.

Roaming Got Cheaper

IF YOU HAVE A EUROPEAN mobile phone account and you plan to travel in the European Union this summer while ringing around, using your mobile phone just got cheaper. With O2-Ireland, calling from any EU country back into Ireland costs no ...