BT has announced a new (updated) mobile broadband service for SMEs, offering a USB stick that uses the Vodafone HSPA network. The service, called (unsurprisingly) BT Business Mobile Broadband, is available as a “standalone” option at £17.50 (+ VAT)/month, but there is also a deal on whereby businesses that sign up for option 2 or…
NetLingo: Word of the Day: The 1% rule
I love NetLingo – you’ll have heard my espouse it’s many and varied benefits before, but recently (Sunday October 19th) there was a great “Word of the Day” email about something called the 1% rule – and it goes a little something like this: An emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get…
Gaming: Top Ten Handheld Innovations
I read a great post on Digital Spy the other day, in their gaming section – the Top Ten handheld innovations (for gaming, obviously). Given our handheld game devices cousins are not that far removed from some of the current crop of Mobile devices, I thought I would pull a few of these out. To…
UK: LycaMobile’s 3p/minute offer during Diwali
Lycamobile, the international mobile telecoms provider, is offering a special call tariff for Diwali. In the spirit of the festival of lights, the cut-price call rates are aimed at illuminating the lives of loved ones and bringing friends and families closer together. From today until the 2nd November, all rates to landlines in India and…
UK: The O2, Events, 23rd October #2: Mighty Boosh!
Wow, having posted on the selection of great talent that is coming to The O2 in the coming months, I was just checking out The O2 website – and found the Mighty Boosh are going to be playing there! For those of you that are not acquainted, the Mighty Boosh is a quirky UK comedy,…
UK: The O2, Events, 23rd October
In what’s become something of a regular piece for me now, here’s the latest update on who you can see, and when, at everyones favourite entertainment venue, The O2. This week it’s the turn of Soul-legend Lionel Richie, and also Metallica, and Paul Weller. Personally, it would be Lionel all the way for me, but…
Channel 10 and nana10 launch a mobile video portal
Israeli Channel 10 (the second largest TV Channel in Israel), with its Internet arm nana10 (www.nana10.co.il), launched a mobile video portal – *977. The digits 977 stand for the Hebrew word for “ten” which is the name of the channel … With the launch of Channel 10’s portal added to the existing services of Blockbuster…
Hutchison coming to market with INQ Mobile devices
GSMworld.com has an interesting story about a new mobile handset player coming to market, backed by a seriously big parent company. The vendor will be called INQ Mobile (check out their holding website here), and Hutchison is the parent company – so you can expect a seriously competent “connected” device (or devices!) from them… On…
UK: another “DRM-free” mp3 music site pops up
Play.com, a popular online retailer in the UK, is now offering DRM-free mp3 downloads, at some low prices! The service, which launched in February this year, had a deal with EMI, which is now expanded to cover Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal – pretty much all the big boys then – and will offer…
Rubberduck launches Mobile TV services for Tele2 in Estonia
Rubberduck Media Lab, a leading provider of white label mobile TV services, has now launched a comprehensive mobile TV service in Estonia for Tele2 … The users will have access to local as well as international video content such as Estonian news from ERR and Kanal2 and entertainment from Lastekas, MTV and more. The majority…