David Steward wants to bomb mobile music as we know it

David Stewart may not be a business man, but he sure does know when he isn’t getting paid. The former Eurythmics man was recently appointed the founding member of Nokia’s new Artist Advisory Council (how does one get appointed a ‘founding member’? Surely you are one or you aren’t?), which has been set up to [...]

asplayer – beta Last.fm client for s60 phones

Social music site Last.FM uses a process called ‘Audioscrobbling’ to automatically grab data about music you are listening to and upload it to a central database.
Data from ’scrobbled’ tracks is used to build up a profile of your musical taste. Last.FM uses this profile to assemble a personalised streaming music station of similar artists and [...]

UK firm launches new iPhone unlocking software

Bolton firm IphoneUnlocking.org.uk (you can guess what they do) have launched their latest software for unlocking the iPhone (see!). It promises one-click unlocking that takes less than five minutes, which works with all models of the iPhone, from the 4GB original through to the latest 16GB model.
The software works on a PC or Mac, lets [...]

Speculation hots up for 3G iPhone in June

Looks like it could be a scorching summer for iPhone fans. Industry speculation about when Apple plans to launch the 3G second-generation iPhone is focusing on June, following predictions by Bank of America analyst Scott Craig:
“Our latest channel checks point to a significant production build of a 3G iPhone beginning in the month of June [...]

Motorola business cleaved in twain

Well it’s happened, Motorola has been split down the middle. The board of directors have decided to split Motorola into two independent, publicly-traded companies, one called Mobile Devices and the other, Broadband & Mobility Solutions.
The mobile side of Motorola’s business, which has been hemorrhaging capital over the last year, has been a bit of an [...]

Ofcom approves in-flight mobile use within Europe

The mad panic to retrieve your still switched on mobile from the deepest darkest depths of your bottomless carry on suitcase, moments before take off might soon be a thing of the past.
Ofcom (the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK) has given approval for the use of mobile phones [...]

Bringing Big Brother surveillance home with Blip for Blackberrys

Do you own a GPS enabled Blackberry? Do you want to keep meticulous tabs on the whereabouts of your friends and family? If the answer is yes then you might be interested to know that a company called BlackLine GPS Inc has just released a free service called Blip, especially for you.
But what is it? [...]

Nokia 6300i is VoIPleased to make wi-fi calls

The whole mobile VoIP front has been relatively quiet so far in 2008 and we would never have guessed that Nokia would be the company to break the silence. But with what? The Nokia 6300i, that’s what, which will offer a fully integrated VoIP client (for making VoIP calls) straight out of the box.
The device [...]

Windows Mobile 6.1 to be officially announced April 1st?

Although the imminent arrival of Windows Mobile 6.1 is hardly a well kept industry secret, having been spotted on Sony Ericsson’s forthcoming Xperia X1 handset at MWC last month, rumors are pouring through that Microsoft is still planning a bit of a fanfare for its official release.
The news hounds over at Pocket-lint claim that Microsoft [...]

Rumour: Microsoft bringing Office to iPhone

In recent weeks, there’s been a buzz around the iPhone’s potential as a business handset, despite its original launch as a purely consumer-focused device. In part, it’s because Apple has plans to beef up the iPhone’s capability for corporate email. However, it seems Microsoft could be weighing in too, with plans to bring Office to [...]