Mobiles in Japan get gestural: "A mobile phone that recognises and responds to movements has been launched in Japan. The motion-sensitive phone - officially titled the V603SH - was developed by Sharp and launched by Vodafone's Japanese division. Devised mainly for mobile gaming, users can also access other phone functions using a pre-set pattern of arm movements."

Interview with Will Wright:

"O: Have you ever found a subject that you could not convert into a game?

WW: I had a few that I spent time on, and had a lot of roadblocks. I wanted to do a tactical weather simulation, something where you could sculpt storms, create tornadoes and thunderstorms, and things like that. It had to do with these three-dimensional fluid-flow maps. I experimented with a lot of ways to visualize that, so you could get an instinctive feel for the three-dimensional flow field. I showed it to several people, and it became pretty apparent that a lot of people have a hard time visualizing to that level. When you read about the way that tornadoes form, it's a very interesting kind of process that I thought would be cool to simulate. But in terms of giving the user a very discrete way to manipulate the system, that's where I really hit the roadblock."

Dance mat teaches pupils Spanish language: "Children learn words by placing their feet on coloured squares according to the words shown on screen and shouted out by a cartoon character. These cover topics such as colours, directions, shopping items and numbers."

I cracked and splashed out on a 20" Apple display for my Powerbook last weekend. Wow. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone who spends a significant chunk of their time at a desk with a laptop. Whilst I'd gotten used to the screen size of the 12" Powerbook, and Expose helps a great deal to mitigate the lower resolution, having this much extra screen space is fantastic... whether it be for writing proposals (keeping the requirements document open next to mine on-screen), or doing development work.

Mobile operators need to learn from the IT industry: "Mobile operators are increasingly targeting business customers, though corporate data solution offerings are not what could be termed comprehensive. Although they are all trying to move up the value chain, they simply don't have the necessary skills to do this effectively and are left competing purely on price"

On the subject of this... whatever happened to 3's business offerings? I remember when they first launched there was a section on their web site about upcoming services, but haven't heard a thing since...