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Do you unconsciously look at your smartphone screen even though nothing has happened to prompt the action? Do you feel ‘phantom’ vibrations emanating from your purse or pocket that make you grab for the phone only to find, again, that nothing is happening? Oh, oh – according to the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology, you could be suffering from ‘smartphone addiction!’ The whole idea that smartphones are a tool to help manage workloads...

A great article entitled ‘Our phones may too smart for our own good’ appeared in the Australian ‘Sun-Herald’ over the weekend that hit a nerve with The Insider. Writer, Andrew Daddo, exclaimed, “Intellectually, I understand all the great things this phone (iPhone 4S) and other smartphones can do. The concern is what they’re doing to us. The smarter they get, the dumber we’re letting ourselves become.” The crux of Andrew’s observations was that...

Nokia’s ‘Superman’ , Anssi Vanjoki, is flying high no more. You may remember only two months back that Mr Vanjoki took over the ailing Mobile Solutions business with much fanfare and blogging. At the time he made the bold statement, “I am committed, perhaps even obsessed, with getting Nokia back to being number one in high-end devices. Achieving this will require performance and efforts over and above the norm. This is a role I’ve personally been preparing for over the last 20 years.” It now appears...

Have you ever read something that is so obvious you wonder why you hadn’t thought if it yourself? After reading a newly released list of 2010 Predictions from Deloitte for the coming year in our industry, you come away wondering why you’re not charging $1,500 an hour for consulting because you’d thought of it already but never bothered to write it down! Amongst a list a really quite exciting predictions I took umbrage to one that said the smartphone would continue to thrive in 2010. Blow me down...