Big Brother is watching you, at least if you’re a phone operator. What’s more, it seems Endemol – the company that brought us the defining humans-as-lab-rats reality TV show – isn’t happy with what it sees.
According to news site Unstrung, reporting from Monte Carlo where Endemol’s CEO Peter Bazalgette was speaking at a mobile industry event, two years ago he thought mobile phones were “the perfect place to put content”. But not any more:
Continue reading ‘Big Brother creator slams operators over mobile content’
While Pocket Picks boasts a truly international crew of writers, London is our heart, or more accurately the dirty metropolis where we keep the website’s server cooled down with dry ice and buckets of water.
We were therefore thrilled to find this map of free wi-fi points in the UK capital, courtesy of The Londonist website. If you’re planning on sneaking past your mobile operators data charges by using VoIP on your fancy N95 handset, say, you’ll be wanting to go to a bar, café or other hotspot featured here.
(Provided you’re in London, that is, or else the travel costs will outweigh the savings. And provided that’s not London, Ontario, in which the travel costs will really swamp your savings.)
The days of 400 cable channels available and nothing worth watching are coming to an end. Thanks to new DIY TV stations like Kyte, we’ll soon have a million broadcasters to surf and ignore.
Continue reading ‘Create and share your own mobile TV show with Kyte’
Google Calendar is a bit like a modern microwave oven: you can see it’s packed full of features and you’re sure it would make your life far healthier (or at least tastier), if only you’d spend a few hours mastering its many secrets. But instead, you reheat cold beans.
Well, the incentive to actually dedicate life force to getting the best out of the thing took one big step closer yesterday with the official launch of Google Calendar for your phone.
Google says:
We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere. Since one of our main goals on the Calendar team is to make planning your events and maintaining your schedule as easy as possible, starting today, you can access your Google Calendar account from your cell phone!
Tried it yet? How did you get on? (Google Calendar we mean, not the Auto-Gourmet To Go option on your Cookmaster 3000).
[Reminded via Mashable]
So there I was, browsing my share portfolio and pondering whether to buy a second corporate jet (paperweight) on the Forbes website, when I came across this article on must-have mobile software. So what does the U.S. business Bible suggest the exec on the go should have loaded onto her handset?
Simulscribe and SimVox for transcribing your voicemails into text messages, Google SMS for answering queries when your P.A. isn’t to hand, Mobio and Nokia’s Widsets for figuring out what ones make the best executive toys, and Yahoo’s Go 2.0 package, which also demands you use Yahoo’s email service. Remember, you read about them on Pocket Picks first.
The cutely-named Carnival of the Mobilists is basically a mobile blogging jamboree, where everyone hunkers down on a website and trades stories. Our sister site Pocket Gamer was featured in Carnival 66 over at All About Symbian, while Pocket Picks is featured in Carnival 67, which is being hosted by WAP Review. If you like your mobile content, go check them out! (In years to come when everyone’s watching telly and using MySpace on their mobile phones, you’ll be glad you got here first…)
Nokia has become the latest company hoping to benefit from an association with the talismanic YouTube. At 3GSM today it announced it’s bringing YouTube videos into the hands of Nokia Nseries owners via the Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map, by hooking into the soon-to-be-launched YouTube mobile site. What’s more, YouTube video RSS feeds will be accessible via the new Nokia Video Center application.
Continue reading ‘Nokia hooks up with YouTube’s new mobile site’
Our sister site Pocket Gamer has some breaking news about the upcoming next gen N-Gage platform, revealing that behind the scenes activity is ramping up, following a top-secret workshop for publishers and developers, held in Santa Monica last week. The two-day event saw Nokia fully unveil the new platform for the first time, with a series of technical and business presentations to fill attendees in on the specifics.
Pop over to Pocket Gamer for the full story.
Apple today revealed its long-awaited iPhone, a multi-functional mobile handset that combines the iPod aesthetic with mobile phone capabilities and full Internet access. Looking more like something out of a science-fiction movie than a traditional mobile handset (it’s just 11.6 mm deep), the iPhone has a 3.5-inch widescreen, so it can be used to watch movies and TV. There’s no keyboard and only a single ‘home’ button – instead, a patented system called ‘Multi-touch’ apparently does away with the need for a traditional keypad, control nub, or even a stylus.
“It works like magic,” Apple’s legendary CEO Steve Jobs promised the audience at MacWorld 2007, the expo where the phone was finally revealed today after much speculation.
Continue reading ‘Apple iPhone’
Our sister site Pocket Gamer has kick-started its handset reviews again (gosh, is that the time?) with a look today at the Sony-Ericsson W850i. As you’d expect, Pocket Gamer’s review concentrates on the games angle (where the W850i achieves a ‘good but no cigar’ rating) but there’s plenty more to recommend this phone, particularly if you’re a muso.
For instance, besides bundled music-making Java apps, the W850i comes with the following cool service:
TrackID is Sony Ericsson’s Shaazam-like service, which lets you record a snatch of song from the built-in FM radio or other source, then identifies what it is and who it’s by through the phone’s 3G internet connection. Very snazzy, and cheaper than Shazam since you only pay for data charges, not a phone call.
(Full W850i review).
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