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  • Watch the Skies

    My travels took me recently to Jodrell Bank, one of the World’s first radio telescopes. The 76m dish (which can be seen from 30km away) is a famous landmark in the UK, bound-up with the Space Race and often used in TV programmes (fictional and non...
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  • Vintage Computing and Gaming

    This is my first post of 2010 on the Developer blog, so let me first wish you all a Happy New Year! At the end of 2009 I had the opportunity to enjoy some computer industry nostalgia. My first computer was the Jupiter ACE , a machine made by Jupiter Cantab...
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  • Focus on the Developer

    These are trying times for the industry, as in most of the world we fight back against the recession. I’m heartened, however, by signs of companies investing in their developer programmes, and reaching out to the software development community....

  • The Birth of Wireless

    I was recently with our service provider division in Hyannis, and had a little bit of time for some sightseeing on the Cape Cod coast. I didn’t know this before I arrived, but Cape Cod was one of the first places on Earth to have a wireless transmitter...

  • SMS Telemetry

    Last week I stumbled across an inexpensive electronics kit that allows SMS messages to monitor and/or control things in the home. This board has 8 control outputs and 4 monitoring inputs, and is designed to link to a cheap Nokia phone handset via a serial...

  • Come to eComm !

    I'm very honoured to have been chosen again as a speaker at the eComm conference in Amsterdam later this month. eComm is a unique gathering of entrepreneurs, thinkers, internet and telecom industry experts who come together to talk about the future...
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  • Spinning Plates

    We tend to take multi-tasking applications for granted these days, as the tools and APIs for developers have really become very user-friendly. In fact even the term "multi-tasking" has been absorbed into mainstream business jargon, because it's...

  • Crash and Call

    I saw that the GSMA are backing an initiative called eCall , which aims to put a device into cars that can automatically contact the emergency services in a crash, and tell them your position, direction and vehicle identification in order to speed-up...
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  • Combining Video and SMS

    This week I was reading a newsletter sent around by Kirusa , who are business partners with Dialogic. The newsletter talks about Voice SMS, which is a service that Kirusa are enabling for some telcos now. It's worth explaining what this service is...

  • Movies on Your Handset

    3G services may be lagging behind in the USA, but efforts to get video to the handset still carry on apace. Video rental giant Blockbuster have just announced a deal allowing Motorola handset users to view movies on their phones. I'm not sure what...

  • Sysinternals Lives On

    One of Microsoft's more brilliant ideas in recent years was to hire Mark Russinovich and absorb his Sysinternals company into Microsoft. Mark still maintains an interesting blog about the internals of Windows at Technet, and is a now Technical Fellow...

  • This is Your Father's Codec

    Today's TDM networks represent audio in G.711 format, also known as the mu-Law or A-law codec. This codec has been around since the 1970's when digital networks started to carry audio as digitised data. According to sampling theory you need to...

  • Moon 40

    On the 20th of this month will be the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Apollo 11, famously taking Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for man’s first Moon walk. The Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was fundamentally a simple machine which was...
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  • Burning Rubber, But Not Gas

    The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy , or “TT”, is one of the Worlds most famous and iconic motor races, where the public roads of the island are turned into a motorcycle race track. A 38 mile (61km) course takes bikes around the island at speeds...
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  • The Growth of mHealth

    There's an interesting report here from the UN Foundation and Vodafone, talking about mHealth, that is applications of mobile technology to health problems in the developing world. Because mobile has grown so fast, and costs have fallen rapidly, the...
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