The Vodafone España Foundation (FVE), the Spanish Red Cross (CRE) and Qualcomm have announced an alliance to launch a pilot project named “3G Connecting Generations.” The project aims to take advantage of HSPA broadband technology to connect the elderly to their caregivers and families by unifying voice and videoconferencing through a familiar device like television.…
Follow-up: Smileys can be “Straight-on” too…
Following on from my post the other day about Japanese Smileys, NetLingo were kind enough to let me know via email about “Straight-on” smileys too – these are again generated using text characters to form shapes that you may not associated with the component characters on their own. If you want to add some aesthetically…
“Lived-in” review – Skypephone S2
So, the folks at Skype were nice enough to lend me a Skypephone S2 to play with – and in the time-honoured tradition of telling you my thoughts, I present a “lived-in” review. This means simply that given I only had the device for a couple of weeks, I can’t tell you details that you…
Beef up your text messages with Japanese Smileys
I just got a great email from NetLingo.com – all about Japanese Smileys! For those of you that don’t know, NetLingo.com is a great source of Interweb jargonry (OK, that’s not a word) – in fact, they put it better themselves: NetLingo has thousands of definitions that explain the online world of business, technology, and…
UK: X Factor sponsored by CPW this year…
In past years, it has been Nokia who have taken on the mantle of sponsoring the X Factor, but this year sees new blood, with Carphone Warehouse stepping in to the breach. They have adopted quite a cartoony visual style, which is applied to all the in/outs on the Ad breaks, plus the online properties…
Xperia X1 – is the touch UI actually not great….?
OK so just throwing this out there … but … is the touch UI of the Xperia actually not very good at all? I say this based on watching the video that Will posted about the other day – from what I saw, the demonstrator had to catch the screen square-on with his finger, with…
Most outrageous handset design ever – your thoughts?
I was just watching MTV, when a classic track came on “Degrees in Motion – Shine On”. If you don’t know this hands-in-the-air classic from back in the day, I’d encourage you to hunt it out. Degrees of Motion also did another track called “Do you want it right now”, which is probably in the…
O2 enables mobile usage on UK subway
O2 is about to switch on coverge for the first underground mobile network in the UK, in the city of…….. Glasgow! Yes, you might have thought that was going to be the London Underground, but alas no (or yes, depending on your viewpoint). The service will start in December, and utilise a “multi-user distribution antenna…
Coming Soon: Cowon P5 PMP looks the business…
Never let it be said we don’t cover PMPs (Personal Media Players) – after all, they are Mobile, and they have superset features of what we tend to find in Mobile Handsets – at least in terms of Multimedia. Cowon’s latest effort, the P5 looks the business – nice design, great specifications (see below)…
Dragons’ Den Mobile Dating Agency pitch falls short – the full story?
The Inquirer has an interesting piece about a chap who pitched a 3G Dating Agency business concept on the popular BBC2 show “Dragons’ Den“. The main thrust of the article is that the viewing audience didn’t get to see what business owner, Romi Pamar, said during his pitch. (Note: Dragons’ Den is a “business” reality…