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The Things I Learned at Mobile World Congress 2014.

Posted on 03 March 2014

With a focus on mobile computing I attended my 6th Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. I wasn’t just there to look at products though because my focus was on assessing trends and trying to work out how those trends might impact the pro-mobile computing market that we cover here.  Here’s a list of take-aways and notes from Barcelona.

Dual-OS Update: Intel, Nokia, American Megatrends and Why Google Might Not be Needed.

Posted on 01 March 2014

There’s another BIOS producer getting into the Operating System Vendor space. Why? Because there’s a potential market for Windows 8 devices to offer Android as a live-switch alternative and the BIOS producers are well positioned to enable this. What are the options and issues, drivers and players and is Google at risk of being left out of this potentially big shift to high-power Android in the consumer space. At MWC last week I spoke to a number of people about Dual-OS systems and there appears to be quite a positive […]

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