OK, so I caved in and got an iPhone 3G S approximately half-a-day after it was released and not before bitching up a storm on Twitter about o2's upgrade policies (I finally ponied up for the pay-as-you-go version which means that I'm approximately £450 poorer now and will be living on beans for the rest [...]

Yes, I actually lined up yesterday at 7.30am in front of the O2 store on Western Road. Yes, after enduring my current hacked iPhone for close to a year at GPRS speeds, I was craving the promised 3G broadband speeds. The built-in GPS wouldn't hurt either. Yes, I had no clue that I was setting myself [...]

My friend and fellow Brightoner Simon Willison of Django/OpenID fame has just released a lovely little mashup called wikinear that uses FireEagle and Wikipedia to show you Wikipedia articles that are relevant to your current location. If you are on the FireEagle beta, you can play with it right now. Otherwise, Simon has four invites that [...]

That's it, I give up. I'm shutting my ears off to anything that has Flash and iPhone in the same sentence. First Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that they were working on Flash for the iPhone, now Adobe clarifies that no, they're actually not. You know, I don't even have the energy to go into the [...]

As a Flash developer, I'm happy whenever anyone licenses anything Flash for any purpose whatsoever. It strengthens a platform that I love developing for. However, the news that Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite for its Windows Mobile phones doesn't excite me too greatly. Flash Lite definitely has its place on mobile phones but that place is [...]