So here's what I've been reading on my iPhone 4 this week - well, in those moments my left hand isn't blocking the antenna, that is.
The UK's coalition government is going to scrap 75% of all government websites, reports IT Pro.
A new report from the Central Office of Information (COI) found development and running of just 46 sites had cost the Government £94 million in 2009 – 2010, plus £32 million in staffing costs.
PC Pro takes a look at the surprise decision by Microsoft to drop its Kin phone, just weeks after it hit the market.
So why the rapid cancellation? Well, it was done hours before the end of the Microsoft financial year. Clearly, this is an attempt by Andy Lees, the VP in charge of mobile, to wrap up all the pain and debt into the current financial year in order to give Windows 7 Mobile the best possible spreadsheet position in the next financial year.
CSO.com has an interesting report on research into the views of IT security professionals.
The research includes the responses of 591 IT and IT security practitioners and found 83 percent believe their organization has been the target of an advanced threat, with 71 percent reporting an increase in advanced threats over the past 12 months.
And finally, here's a bit of video taking a very early look at Meego, Intel and Nokia's mobile OS, running on a handset. Looks promising.
Over the last two years there has been an interesting dynamic in the mobile space. As the demands of mobile phones have become greater, the chips that power them have become ever more powerful, and a new space between phone and laptop has emerged.
It has been called the Mobile Internet Device, or the tablet, or the smartphone and not forgetting the netbook. All of these devices are actually quite different - and offer different functionality, but what we are seeing is the creation of tools that sit between the convenience of a phone and the power of a laptop.
Everyone agrees that the mobile internet is the next great battleground and unsurprisingly Intel wants a slice of that market. To my mind what has been interesting is watching two forces in action - a bottom up force and a top down force.
What do I mean? Well, smartphones by and large are dominated by processors designed by small British firm ARM. The laptop space (and pretty much every other space) is owned by Intel. Intel has been pushing down into the mobile space, thanks to the genius of Moore's Law creating ever more low power and efficient processors, while ARM processors are pushing up into devices like Apple's iPad.
One of the reason of course for the success enjoyed by Intel is it's relationship with Microsoft and Windows - the operating system that dominates the OS landscape as much as x86 chips dominate the computing landscape.
But Windows has never really taken off in the smartphone sector, yet XP has dominated the netbook space and Windows 7 could yet be a player in the Tablet/Netbook space. We are now seeing other OSes emerge with real clout - namely Android and iPhone OS.
So Intel has taken several strategic steps in the last few years. It has partnered with Nokia, and the two firms have merged two separate OSes, Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo.
And we're beginning to see the first results. Below is a video showing MeeGo running on an Acer netbook, giving a glimpse of what's possible.
There are a number of interesting things happening here. First of all, the netbook is powered by Intel's Atom processor, a chip that is revolutionising what we can expect from our mobile devices. The MeeGo platform is also a sign from Intel that it is not simply leaving it to platform developers to choose what processors they want to work with.
And here's a video showing MeeGo running on a variety of different systems.
So where are we going with this? Well, expect to see Nokia and Intel announce a smartphone powered by Atom soon. That's my opinion - I have no insider information!
What has been announced officially is that Intel has now got Android to run on its Atom processors. Why is this a big deal? Well, Android is currently exploding in usage in the smarthpone sector and we will start to see an increasing numbers of netbooks and tablet devices powered by Android in the coming year.
And finally, the Atom processor will take another step forward this year when Intel launches the first dual core Atom for netbooks, reports Cnet..
Things are getting really interesting in the mobile space, that's for sure.
