Nokia LifeviNe – ‘Sports tracker for your life’

Having realised, perhaps, that not all N-Series mobile owners are into distance running and therefore won’t be getting much out of the otherwise-excellent Sports Tracker app Nokia has pulled off the dustsheet to reveal Nokia LifeviNe.
Ok, it’s a silly intercapitalised name but LifviNe is quite a capable-looking Geoptagging app. You can associate different media files [...]

N85 advert drops

We just got official confirmation of the Nokia N85 smartphone yesterday and already it seems the internet is awash with videos of it. Here is the official advert for the device in all of it’s slightly clunky, expositional and not quite natural glory:
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Bloomberg mistakenly publishes advance Steve Jobs obituary

Faking your own death is not a good idea. Profiting from your own demise is highly illegal and generally a bit of a faff, the incumbent admin just isn’t worth it. In Steve Jobs’s case, it’s an even more perilous thing to do, seeing as the stock price per share of his company could slip [...]

Leaked patent enters Casio into the 8 megapixel war

The folks over at Engadget Mobile have upturned yet another 8 megapixel camera that’s set to enter the fold, this time from Casio. The device is an Exilim branded Casio/Hitachi effort and though the only image of the device so far is a leaked patent technical drawing, it’s already looking very nice indeed.
The device, which [...]

Mobile payment services launching in Mexico

We might think that we are awfully high and mighty in the technology stakes here in good old Blighty, but it seems that South America is one step ahead of the curve in comparison to the rest of the Western world when it comes to mobile payments.
Reuters is reporting that Mexico’s banks are claiming that [...]

Northumbrian offenders to get SMS probation reminders

Criminals on probation in Gateshead are to receive regular text messages reminding them to attend probation appointments and counseling sessions.
The service is targeted at persistent offenders and those who have found it difficult to attend appointments in the past.
Barry Taylor, assistant chief officer at Northumbria Probation, said “Attending appointments is the offender’s personal responsibility and [...]

Serious security problem with iPhone passcode lock

Oh, good grief, Apple.  After all the blathering about how the iPhone 3G needed to be locked down tighter than a horse fly’s hoo-ha for ’security reasons’, it seems that there is a big yawning hole in the new phone’s password locking mechanism.
By pressing ‘emergency call’ and double-tapping the Home button, all contacts in the [...]

iPhone App of The Day #9: Baby Log

Babies are wonderful, we should make that clear. But they’re a lot of work. Given that you spend most of the early months wandering round in a sleep-deprived haze, it can be tough to keep track of the important details of bowel movements, feeds, sleeps and bathtimes. For the baby, I mean.A new iPhone app [...]

Controversy brewing over Bluetooth marketing guidelines

Earlier this week, mobile industry body the Mobile Marketing Association published draft guidelines for Bluetooth marketing, with the aim of telling marketing firms how they can and can’t use Bluetooth to push ads and content to mobile users in public spaces. Although they’re not final yet, the guidelines are already causing a bit of a stir, because [...]

Gartner says 305m mobile phones were sold in second quarter

Analyst firm Gartner reckons 305 million mobile phones were sold in the second quarter of 2008 – 11.8% more than in the same period last year. 42 million of ‘em were sold here in Western Europe, compared to 44 million in North America. Gartner is predicting that sales for 2008 as a whole will top [...]