According to CNET, a sales representative from Cingular (aka, ‘the new AT&T’ to all you American Idol fans out there) has let slip to them that the iPhone is set to launch on 11th June in the US. There wouldn’t normally be a lot of weight leant to such tales, were the date not also [...]
Vodafone set to give Vodafone Live a Googly revamp
Friday, March 30, 2007 Leave a Comment
At least, that’s the report coming out of the operator’s analyst day yesterday, in which Vodafone’s UK CEO Nick Read said that Google will be revamping Vodafone Live, making it more of an open-internet portal. Apparently MySpace, YouTube and eBay will all have a presence on the portal’s homepage, following their deals with Vodafone earlier [...]
Yoga goes mobile
Friday, March 30, 2007 1 Comment
£21.49 for a mobile application?! It’d have to make me fit as a fiddle and bolster my essential feelings of oneness with the world for that kind of cash. Which is lucky, as that’s exactly the goal behind Hala Soft’s Mobile Yoga app. It provides instructions on all manner of Yoga positions, with its mobile [...]
Twitter: the next big Mobile 2.0 craze
Friday, March 30, 2007 4 Comments
The Web 2.0 world is constantly looking for the Next Big Thing – see how the social networking hype moved from Friendster to MySpace to Bebo to Piczo to Facebook, for example (don’t worry if you’re still at step two – it’s the cool kids who drive these things).
Anyway, Twitter is the latest hype, and [...]
BBC shows coming to 3G mobiles
Friday, March 30, 2007 1 Comment
Doctor Who-ooh, Doctor Who! The BBC has announced it has done a deal with Orange, 3 and Vodafone to trial streaming some of its channels to their mobile TV services. With the exception of some sport and licensed content (insert name of your favourite US TV show here), BBC One, BBC Three and BBC News [...]
Motorola backs location-aware
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Leave a Comment
In a bid to boost development of location-enabled/ location-aware apps for its handsets, Motorola has announced its new Location Services Framework. The system is designed to allow developers to more easily link-up the info that’s available on and to your phone.
Motorola puts it as, ‘From mobile search, messaging, contacts, and the mobile browser to social [...]
New Nokia 7088 and 5700 pics
Thursday, March 29, 2007 2 Comments
As promised, here are the shots of the new Nokia phones revealed earlier today, the L’Amour 7088 and the 5700 XpressMusic. First up, the 5700…
Microsoft developing new Deepfish mobile browser
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Leave a Comment
It’s not even in beta yet, so don’t expect to be using Microsoft’s new Deepfish browser tomorrow. It’s being developed for Windows Mobile smartphones, with the aim of providing a browsing experience much closer to what you’d get on a desktop computer.
This will involve more use of zooming and panning to move around pages, while [...]
The History Channel launches new mobile service
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Leave a Comment
Mobile isn’t just about mucking about with games and music, y’know. You can learn stuff. And more so now that The History Channel has launched its new WAP site, which features all manner of text, picture and video content. Some parts of the site are free, while others you’ll have to pay a subscription or [...]
Bebo goes mobile with Orange – it’s official
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Leave a Comment
We wrote about this the other day when it was just a rumour, but Orange confirmed yesterday that it has signed an exclusive deal with social networking site Bebo to create a mobile version. The exclusivity lasts for a few months – Orange hasn’t said how long exactly – and will allow users to edit [...]
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