Like many people, I’ve been frustrated by the lack of firmware updates to the Elonex 511EB ebook reader. There are several bugs which are frustrating to many users – as judged from the comments on this blog. With the Amazon Kindle dropping to a lower price, this ebook reader really needs to be updated if it wants to stay competitive.

Well, I’m pleased to say that it looks like there will be a firmware update – and soon!
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Google has rightly received praise for its reworked “Contacts” functionality. But there is still a rather glaring error.
One of the things I love to do is add images to my contacts. It gives me a visual cue when I’m scrolling through looking for a person, it prompts my memory when I see the …
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I was honoured when David Wood asked me to present at his first “brown bag” lunch lecture at Accenture.
Normally I would run through a presentation of this length at several different venues and thoroughly hone it before presenting at a high profile event. As you’ll see from the slides and video, it’s still a …
I’ve mentioned Nokia on here a few times. For a mobile focused company, they seem to have a real problem with mobile advertising.
It starts well enough with an animated GIF.
The site it links to is http://music.nokia.co.uk/ – cleverly, Nokia redirect mobile users to a specific mobile version of the site. That’s where it all starts …
I was pleasantly surprised to see this poster at my local train station. Looks like Surrey Library is moving to the digital age.
“Bet the site doesn’t work on my phone,” I thought.
I was wrong!
Overall, this is a brilliant new service. A great initiative to get people reading more books and improving library services. …
So, the Kindle finally launches in the UK. This blog has become something of a Mecca for users of the Elonex 511EB. The comments on my reviews run in to the hundreds, I get thousands of page views a month on them, I regularly answer private emails about the device.
So, why am I …
Those delightful coves at Jabra and Wildfire PR have kindly sent me a Jabra Clipper review unit. Could this be the BlueTooth headset to replace my beloved Jabra BT3030 which had an unfortunate encounter with a washing machine last week?
How does it stack up against my wishlist?
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In which the BPI threaten to sue me.
Last night I was fortunate enough to find myself addressing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy Act. Eric Joyce MP managed to bring together a diverse group of people from all sides of the debate for a (mostly) civil discussion on the Act, its limitations, and …














