The “In Case of Emergency” (ICE) method of storing specific contacts as emergency contact numbers is going to be updated, following new standardization from the ITU. The changes involving writing 01, 02, 03 (and so on) against certain relative designations (such as father, wife, husband), written in the users’ native language, to help emergency workers…
Sony and Samsung connect up with Wireless HD
Sony and Samsung have become members of an HD consortium that is working to send HD video signals wirelessly from a single Set-top box (STB) wirelessly to screens placed aroundthe home. The new consortium will consist of Sony, Samsung, Motorola, Sharp, and Hitatchi – and will develop a standard around tech from a company…
Sony BMG appoints ex-VF Content Director
Sony BMG has appointed Graeme Ferguson as SVP of digital of strategic partnerships – as some of you may know Ferguson is the former Vodafone content director, who was responsible for the launch of Vodafone Live! Whilst perhaps not the biggest announcement we’ve reported on this year, it could mark significant aspirations in Sony BMG’s…
UK: want an iPhone3G on 25.7.08? O2 stores have some…
Yep, just a quickie really – as many of you who are after the IP3G may know, O2 are regularly updating a page on their website with the availability of hardware at their various stores. Reading between the lines, it appears they don’t have any 16 Giggers, only the 8 Gig models, which would fall…
Carling goes Viral Mobile Ads with the iPhone
The Independent has an amusing little story about Mobile Advertising, and more specifically, the efforts of one brewer to combine Mobile Viral Ads, Apps, and the iPhone! Carling, a well-known beer purveyor in the UK, has created the iPint application for the iPhone – which you can get free on iTunes. Why, you might quite…
Fond Memories: Sharp GX10i
I just received my regular email from Expansys, telling me about their latest offers – one of the items sparked some fond memories…. the Sharp GX10 was one of the first three handsets to launch Vodafone Live back in the day (circa 2002), with what was for then quite advanced features – camera, MMS, colour…
Ericsson goes HSPA in Japan
Ericsson has just signed an agreement with Japanese MNO to expand and upgrade it’s HSPA network. Ericsson will provide e-HSPA (enhanced HSPA) on new and existing base stations in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka – all high traffic areas. It would seem that the infrastructure vendors are now looking at expanding in to developing markets, but…
Vodafone launches Vodafone NetPC
VF Portugal has launched a new mobility proposition called NetPC, which consists of a “Vodafone Connect” Pen, and an Ultra-compact Laptop (is that a UCLP?!). The hardware consists of a EeePC701 Laptop, and USB Modem, allowing surfing up to 7.2Mbps. The version that VF is pushing is the GUI-Linux EeePC that we’ve reported on…
Updated: F906i with “TrueNav” Fingerprint Sensor – pics
As a very quick follow up to the story I wrote on Authentec’s advanced fingerprint reader/navigation sensor, I have now had some nice images through from their PR division – which show the sensor in place, and the device in which it is deployed (the DoCoMo F906i): Authentec’s product is the AES1710, which: “….is based…
Thought for the day: are gadgets making life simpler?
Any of you that have read my Bio will know that one of the key things I am looking for in new devices, services, or tech in general, is that it makes my life easier/simpler – that could typically (though not exclusively) be defined as saving me time, or to say another way, ‘streamlining my…