China Telecom is apparently set to procure 55m CDMA mobile devices in 2009, according to to a report in the Chinese media. What, you mean like 1 device for everyone in the UK population?! 55m handsets actually is more like a drop in the ocean when compared with the total Chinese populace, and the race…
Japanese Mobile carriers limit Interweb access for minors…
NTT DoCoMo, and four other Japanese Mobile OpCos, have announced they will start to block access to certain Internet content for subs younger than 18. That content will be assumed to be things like (obviously) adult sites, and dating sites. However, the block will be able to be lifted by the parents of said younger…
EA and Eidos team up for Mobile Games
EA (Mobile) and Eidos have done a deal whereby Eidos will give EA the rights to mobile versions of some of its big name titles, such as Tomb Raider and Minesweeper. The complete list of (current) games also includes California Games X, and Just Cause 2. As well as this (!), EA will also get…
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…
Woman sold phone with “preloaded” naughty images!
I did let out a slight chuckle when I read about a poor woman who went in to a “Dick Smith Electronics” store in Australia to buy a Mobile phone, and subsequently found out that someone had previously used it to make a photo diary of what sounds like a dirty weekend in a hotel!…
Rant: Texting IS ruining our ability to communicate
I read with interest an article in The Inquirer, which said that author of a new report (plug: David Crystal – Txting: the gr8 db8) believes that Texting doesn’t impair spelling or literacy – oh no – it actually improves it! When I say I read it with interest, it was more a case of…
Vodafone reports 80% growth in India
Vodafone is claiming 80% growth in it’s customer base in the last 11 months, according the SVP of the company – one R.Sumesh Kumar. He apparently also commented that the retail reach of the Operator was growing, with 25 stores across the country. Now, this of course IS great news for any OpCo, but India…
Orange goes in to Kenya
Orange has announced that it will soon become the commercial brand for Telkom Kenya, following France Telecom’s acquisition of 51% of its capital in December 07. This means that Telkom Kenya will become the first integrated (fixed, mobile, internet) operator in the country. We’ve often heard stories about how genuinely useful Mobile devices are in…
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…
Sony says get Play TV and use with your PSP!
Sony very kindly emailed me the other day to suggest I might like to purchase Play TV for the princely sum of £69. Actually this isn’t a bad price for a “Freeview” (DVB-T) dual tuner box. There are some nice features, such as a great EPG, and record/trick-play, but what really caught my eyes was…