Mikael Ricknäs - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Mikael Ricknäs

Article | 3/06/2010 Bike powers Nokia phone charger

Nokia has upped the "how green can you get" stakes with a kit that allows users to charge their phones when cycling, the phone manufacturer said on Th...

Article | 3/06/2010 Red Hat's CEO: Clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins

Cloud architecture has to be defined in a way that allows applications to move around, or clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins, warned Red Hat...

Article | 2/06/2010 Qualcomm readies dual-core processors for smartphones

Qualcomm has expanded its Snapdragon family of chipsets with two new models for high-end smartphones, each with two processor cores running at up to 1...

Article | 2/06/2010 Euro operators push cheap Android-based smartphones

Mobile operator Orange is joining a growing list of European mobile operators offering cheap Android-based smartphones, in a bid to get more prepaid s...

Article | 31/05/2010 Skype's new iPhone app makes calls over 3G

Skype has launched a new version of its client for Apple's iPhone that can make calls to other Skype users over a 3G network, it said on Sunday.

Article | 1/06/2010 The web will unify fragmented mobile OS world, says Opera

Norwegian browser maker Opera has high hopes for the combination of mobile browsers and HTML 5, which will let web-based applications compete better w...

Article | 28/05/2010 Microsoft issues final release for Tag

Microsoft's mobile barcode technology, Tag, has exited the beta testing phase, and a final release is available for download, the company said in a bl...

Article | 28/05/2010 The Pirate Bay must stay blocked in Denmark, says court

Telecom operator Telenor will have to continue to block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in Denmark, the Danish Supreme Court said on Thursday.

Article | 25/05/2010 No MeeGo upgrade for the N900, says Nokia

Users who have bought Nokia's flagship smartphone, the Maemo-based N900, won't be able to upgrade the device to MeeGo, Nokia said in a blog post on Tu...

Article | 25/05/2010 Sales of laptops grew by 43 percent in Q1, says Gartner

Shipments of laptops rose by 43.4 per cent in the first three months of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to market research comp...

Article | 22/05/2010 Sony Ericsson mum on Froyo upgrade plans

Sony Ericsson is keeping its plans for Android 2.2, also known as Froyo, under wraps, for now.

Article | 20/05/2010 EU publishes 'Digital Agenda' five-year plan for IT

On Wednesday, the European Commission announced its Digital Agenda, a five-year plan that will set the pace for telecommunications in Europe. The plan...

Article | 19/05/2010 The Pirate Bay back, thanks to the Swedish Pirate Party

A German court injunction temporarily left file-sharing site The Pirate Bay without a bandwidth provider, but thanks to the Swedish Pirate Party the s...

Article | 19/05/2010 Amazon improves reliability for its cloud-based database

Amazon Web Services has added a new high-availability feature called Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) to its cloud-based Relational Database Service...

Article | 19/05/2010 Google to acquire voice and video codec company

Google plans to acquire video and VoIP (Voice over IP) codec developer Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for approximately 421 million Norwegian kronor (US$6...