The British government is getting fed up with gadget theft, but not enough to take matters into their own hands it seems. The responsibility is to be that of the manufacturers, as British Home Secretary John Reid has recently called for a summit to encourage gadget manufacturers to develop innovative new ways of make alluring [...]

3 has announced that highlights from Premiership football matches will be available for download from its mobile portal almost immediately after the real-time action has finished. Mobile football fanatics will have to wait just five minutes to download the video clips — which is pretty swift editing. Also on offer through 3 will be free [...]

Reuters notes that Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry is about to clamp down on what it considers to be ‘immoral’ picture messaging. According to the news site: ‘The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, a body set up after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, has instructed the ministry to buy the equipment needed to prevent any misuse of [...]

mocoNews reports that Orange and 3 content supplier MobiTV is pulling out of the UK. According to a quote from New Media Age the company has, ‘closed down its aggregation service with 3 and will no longer provide its downloadable TV Java application to Orange.’ With mobile TV seemingly on the cusp of getting quite [...]

How long before all of our gadgets can do what all of our gadgets can do? Mobiles are getting more and more like computers all the time and now thanks to CallWave, computers can start acting a bit more like mobiles to. Software company CallWave has a couple of interesting new downloads it calls, ‘free [...]

As part of a our on-going spring cleaning and self-improvement drive (which is on the verge of causing severe RSI in our editorial department), Pocket Picks has just switched on its new story rating system. It’s pretty simple to use – simply click on the number of ‘cool’ buttons you think a story deserves. Just [...]

Ever find that using a mobile to send a very quick short email is a needlessly long and drawn out affair? Checking emails on the go is a joy with most up to date handsets, but unless you own a Blackberry sending them is not quite so hassle free owing to the lack of a [...]

Ring Nokia has followed-up its recent piece about touch-screen input coming to S60 smartphones (the OS used in recent Nokias and quite a few other devices), by posting this slide from a cancelled talk that had been due to take place at the S60 Summit in Spain. For those readers lacking bionic eyes, the slide’s [...]

A couple of pictures have appeared on been deleted from Flickr which, based on the EXIF data supposedly tagged to the images, have been taken using the iPhone’s camera. The EXIF tags are claimed to reveal:

It really wasn’t that long ago – er, March, in fact – that we were writing about Samsung’s 8GB flash RAM chips. Now here we are on the last day of sunny April bringing you news that the Korean giant has commenced production of new 16GB NAND chips. Samsung claims these are the first mass [...]