A while back ago I worked in a company that had IP-phones. Didn’t use it much since we had cellphones, but it had easy access to the weather forcast for all our main offices. Every now and then I would check the office in Brasil, daydreaming, since our office was in Oslo, Norway. And every [...]

As promised in a previous post (Bad experience with POS payment terminals), and after the vacation break, I am uploading a visual review of (some) POS payment terminals. The document is not menat to be comprehensive, but rather illustrative and - more importantly - “open”. By open I mean that I will update it [...]

GPS navigation for cars still have a way to go before perfect. A while ago, as a passenger from Oslo to Lista in Norway, I got to examine a TomTom GPS screen real estate a bit more thorough, and found an odd detail. Whenever driving South-West, the arrow in the lower left corner of the [...]

I am inaugurating vdl Labs with a post on POS payment terminals. They have been bugging me ever since I moved to Norway (now over 8 years ago). The reason is not so much linked to anyone terminal, even though some of those are badly designed. The real bad thing about them is that there [...]