Ericsson today unveiled its latest energy-optimized radio base station site concept, a research project for a pioneering wind-powered Tower Tube. Working with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden, Ericsson is developing the concept as part of its commitment to sustainable and cost-efficient solutions that help bring communications to all. The wind-powered Tower Tube…
France: Orange launches mutli-channel cinema package
France: Orange is launching a new pack of channels – all movie-based. The five channels will be ready from mid-November, at 12 EUR/month for TV and PC, and 6 EUR/month on Mobile. If that weren’t enough, access to the channels will be both live broadcast, and VoD (Video-on-Demand). The package apparently has more than 1200…
The wow shiny new and super easy MP3 music downloads
So Nectar emailed me the other day to let me know about a new mp3 download store they have launched – just to be clear, this is a UK-only store – based on their Nectar reward card. Most people in the UK will be familiar with Nectar I think – it’s a joint venture between…
UK: Sunday Newspaper insert: Dell now does patterns on Laptops
In scouring the Sunday newspapers, I found an insert for 5 new customised Laptop casings from Dell, which have been patterned-up by an artist called Mike Ming. For our UK readers, that name may cause some amusement due to the usage of the term in current-day language, but nonetheless I persist with my article. So,…
UK: Saturday Papers – Phones review
As mentioned in my last post, I was checking out the Papers this weekend -seems old-school doesn’t it – but occasionally the printed word is nicer than looking at the TFT monitor, however big it may be! The next item I noticed in The Daily Mail on Saturday was on “current phones”, and their scores…
UK: Saturday Papers – NeoNode N2
So occasionally I take a look at what’s in the papers, and this week I thought I’d do that – two items from Saturday’s Daily Mail, and one from an insert in the Sunday edition. The Item that sprung out at me from Saturday’s paper was a reference to the NeoNode N2 – now, we’ve…
T-Mobile 3G broadband USB Modem made in to access point…
Hexus Lifestyle have an interesting story, which they note originally came from The Register – essentially one about a docking station for 3G USB Broadband modems on T-Mobile! Now this sounds like one darn good idea: The Mobile Broadband Share Dock allows multiple users – although T-Mobile recommends no more than three of them at…
UK: Samsung Omnia discontinued at Orange – NOT
Mobile News has an interesting story on the Samsung Omnia @ Orange UK….. Customers at Orange staff are apparently claiming that retail staff have said the Omnia has been discontinued – which both Samsung and Orange are denying. The whole thing apparently kicked off with forum threads on a Money saving site in the UK…
Qatar Telecom and NSN agree on DVB-H OMA BCAST SCP (Mobile TV)!
Bring on the Mobile TV deployments I say! Qatar Telecom and Nokia-Siemens Networks (NSN) have agreed on the deployment of a DVB-H OMA BCast Smart Card Profile (SCP) Mobile TV platform – which apparently is claimed will be the first commercially-ready implementation. As you may know OMA BCAST SCP is the variant of DVB-H that…
Human Evolutionary Limit hit; need tech upgrade
The folks over at TechDigest have got a great take on a recent report that humans have hit their evolutionary limit – they have suggested some tech upgrades for us! I’ve picked out a few of my fave ideas ideas below, but you’ll have to link over to their site to check out the full…