Communication Breakdown

Remember that travesty of a Panorama report on the evilitude of Wi-Fi? The one with that anti-Wi-Fi guy who just happened to be selling loads of "shielding" paint/mesh/whatever? Well, the BBC's editorial complaints unit has finally ruled that, yes, it was all a bit dodgy.

Yes, Wi-Fi: A Warning Signal "exaggerated the evidence for concern about the potential health hazards of wireless technology". Yes, it "was unbalanced", and yes, it "gave a misleading impression of the state of scientific opinion on the issue".

Naughty naughty! And almost as egregious as those Wi-Fi-autism claims...

Brown in, Zander out. Erstwhile Motorola president and COO Greg Brown is now CEO after Ed Zander announced his departure. Zander will remain chairman until a shareholder's meeting in May.

Motorola has not been doing very well lately, partly as a result of heavy undercutting. What also cannot help is the various factions within the company, as exemplified by the current confusion over mobile Linux. Various mutations of Linux already form the basis of many consumer handsets, including Motorola's, but Motorola now has two more enormous open source-based platforms - Motomagx and Android - on its hands. And UIQ.

I'm guessing that we might see a bit more coherence in the future.

More soon...

A quick heads-up for anyone who, like me, uses a T-Mobile Vario II (aka HTC Hermes). T-mob has finally gotten round to issuing a Windows Mobile 6 update for the handset, which can be found here.

I've run it and everything seems to be fine. And, seeing as my work phone is also a Windows Mobile 6 phone - but without the touchscreen - it will be interesting to (belatedly) compare the two versions.