Tuesday 01 March 2011

Gordon Brown Blocked Steve Jobs' Knighthood    [ 01-03-2011 20:04 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: Telegraph     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Reports are circulating that Steve Jobs was in line to receive a knighthood back in 2009, but that the honour was blocked by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The knighthood would have been an honourary one and Jobs would not have been able to use the title 'Sir Steve Jobs' because he is an American. Only British subjects and other subjects of Her Majesty the Queen e.g. Canadians, Jamaicans, Australians, etc can receive a full knighthood and use the title.

The knighthood was allegedly blocked because Jobs declined to appear at a Labour Party conference in 2009. Apple were seemingly aware of the intent to confer the honour, but comment was declined by the former Prime Minister's office other than to say that the former Prime Minsiter did not block the knighthood.

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India Moving Closer To BlackBerry Ban    [ 01-03-2011 19:47 ]

Author: Serge Novikov   Source: BGR     Translation by: Paul Smith     

The seemingly never ending spat between RIM and the Indian goverment seems to be coming to something of a head with the Indian government firming up its stance on the matter.

In case you've forgotten the dispute between the two revolves around the Indian government's stipulation that mobile data be available to the government. RIM has said in the past that it does not have the capability to offer the government access to encrypted data sent using its BlackBerry service.

India's Home Secretary has laid it out bare "Whoever gives access will be allowed to operate. Whoever does not give access will not be allowed to operate". If there was any speculation over possible wiggle room here for RIM that seems to have been crushed with the Home Secretary stating "It's not a question of giving access. Under law, they have to give access, everybody has to give access". That sounds pretty definitive to us

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Non-Verizon Xperia Play Arrives At FCC    [ 01-03-2011 19:37 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: Unwired View     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Back at MWC in Barcelona Sony Ericsson were making a bit of a show of the fact tht the forthcoming Xperia Play would be launching on Verizon in the U.S., but now a non-CDMA version of the handset has turned up at the FCC.

Sadly it's not a North American GSM version of the handset, rather it's the European version. Hopefully the Verizon version shows up soon, but more to the point it dashes a few hopes, for the time being at least, for the Xperia Play to launch on other American networks. Of course Verizon are the first American network to get their hands on it, but hopefully other operators are able to start offering it soon

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Newsflash! (Sort Of): Smartphone Users Are Avid Gamers    [ 01-03-2011 19:34 ]

Author: Serge Novikov   Source: Information Solutions Group     Translation by: Paul Smith     

A new survey from PopCap Games is highlighting how mobile usres have become  gamers in recent years.

The survey was concudcted amonst American and British adults with the finding that approximately a quarter of those surveyed had played a game on their phone within the past week. PopCap says this means they are 'avid' gamers although I'm not sure whether the survey actually looked at continuing patterns or just one game played within a week.

Unsurprisingly the figure baloons to 83% when the survey is restricted to just smartphones. Of the smartphone users some 45% say they play a game on their device every day. As I said it's hardly surprising given the massive growth in mobile gaming over the past two or three years and of course the parallel growth in hardware, which is now more capable than ever of running relatively high-end games on mobile devices.

Interestingly though 55% of smartphone owners say they use their smartphone to play games most of the tim compared with 22%, less than a quarter, who say they do most of their gaming on their computer.

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