I speculated ahead of Amazon’s launch that the Kindle tablet should be called the Kindle 451, from the Bradbury book where the temperature of 451F is that which causes book paper to spontaneously ignite. I was wrong. Kindle Fire is the better name as the Fire will burn so varied a selection of...

A very brief bio – Mobile industry analyst, consultant and product manager. Former Principal at Forrester; Research Director at Jupiter Research; Marketing and/or product management at Psion, 3/Hutchison and Cable & Wireless Communications. Dad. Learning photography. What I do - I &n...