Jon Peddie Blogs

Jon’s tortuous path to the iPhone

Posted by Jon Peddie on February 11th 2010 | Permalink
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I proudly consider myself a geek and an early adopter. When the slick N95 from Nokia first came out I knew I had to have one. The unit wasn’t yet available in the United States, but that wasn’t going to be a problem for me. My colleague and longtime friend’s daughter in England works for Vodafone and Vodafone was the carrier that was offering the N95.I had long used two mobile phones, one for the US and one for rest of the world because the US had been so late to adopt the higher-speed digital systems like GSM and 3G. The…

So long 2009, don’t let the door hit you in the behind

Posted by Kathleen Maher on December 15th 2009 | Permalink
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To put together this list of notable events for 2009, I went back over old issues to see what we were talking about. What struck me besides the fact that a lot of really great stuff actually happened was that you can almost hear a continuous whine through the copy (mostly mine)—I’m tired, I don’t want to do this any more, when is it going to get better?  In the future, would you please tell me to just shut up and get on with it? I’d appreciate it. The thing is, it really wasn’t such a bad year in terms of…