You know you are getting old when you derive pleasure from accruing reward card points with a supermarket. Fortunately, I didn’t derive any pleasure as such, but am doing from letting our UK readership that you can both accrue points, AND get some BlackBerry goodness at the same time! Nectar (which is a consortium of…
Vodafone Spain and Qualcomm help the Elderly
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.…
3 Italia and Alcatel Lucent build out Mobile TV in Italy
Alcatel-Lucent (AlcaLu) has signed an equipment and services contract with 3 Italia, for the expansion and optimisation of it’s Mobile TV broadcast network in Italy. The solution is based on DVB-H terrestrial transmitters (as oppose to the satellite-based DVB-SH), and will allow 3 to increase the indoor and outdoor coverage. Interestingly, the AlcaLu solution supports…
Tough times ahead in UK for N96?
Mobile News is carrying an interesting article, and in the manner of giving a balanced view, I thought I would bring it up for our readers to comment on. The gist of the article is that the N95 (and to a certain extent N95-8GB) was the first of a new breed of devices to cram…
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…
Follow-up: IBC 2008 rocked the house!
Well, the show that is known as IBC 2008 (this year at least), sure was busy! As I mentioned in a previous post, this is where the illuminati (and other people too) of the broadcast world get together, to show their wares, and present information directly to peoples’ brains. This year, as is usually the…
UK: Nokia N96 – coming very soon on Vodafone and Three!
Hey, you there, in the UK – want a Nokia N96? ‘Course you do. But where, oh where, may you purchase the uber-device from? Well, it appears either Vodafone (above), or Three (below): Mmmmh, N96, very tasty – and now you can get one – or at least, you can from 1st October (Three), or…
Babies and Mobiles – part 3 (following up part 1)
You may or may not remember some time back I wrote a post on Baby Monitors, where I lamented the specifications of the Transmitter/Receiver devices – using them, in my opinion, was like a throwback to 10 years ago with the state of Mobile phones! Well we are now 9 months on, and I thought…
UK: Picstop have some very good prices for memory cards!
I like it when I get nice emails. Emails that tell me something interesting and/or amusing, and leave me with a nice warm gadgety feeling inside. That’s kinda what happened when I got an email from Picstop today, telling me they are doing some really good offers on Memory cards. Now you can never have…
“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…