… will be the “Mash Up Mix 2008”, mixed by the Cut Up Boys, on Ministry of Sound: As my Mobile tends to go most if not all places with me, it virtually always comes along when I’m training in the gym – and what better music to have on whilst training that some fresh…
UK Retail: Top 10 handsets, week commencing 29/2/08
The guys at Mobile Choice compile a “weekly bestsellers” list, as I’ve mentioned before – here’s the Top 10 contract and prepay handset, by their count, as of week commencing 29/2/08: Nokia and Sony Ericsson coming out on top in the contract handsets….. whilst on the prepay front….: Nokia takes up half the top ten!…
UK: Asus Eee PC pops up on my high street – but only for a day!
(Pic courtesy of my favourite SIM-free Mobile/PC online retailer, Expansys) I was perusing my local retailer of electrical goods the other day, and happened across the Asus Eee PC – now I know it’s not anything particularly new, but it IS an intruiging little chap, especially as it was sat with a bunch of other…
Mailcurve – the refined email service
Mailcurve have announced a new email service for iPhone users, that subscribes to the concept of “refined email” – I could tell you what this is, but the guys at Mailcurve do it so much better: Sending and receiving email on your iPhone is great now… but hundreds of emails arriving on your phone isn’t…
UK: Toshiba close to launching handset with MNO
Toshiba has announced it’s close to signing a deal with a UK MNO to take one or more of it’s new handsets (the ones launched at MWC). Tosh isn’t really well-known for handsets in UK, although some people may be familiar with it’s Portege range (a brand shared with it’s Laptop division). If this deal…
MWC: alternative stats
I think this is the last 3GSM08 post (yes, still refusing to called it MWC) I am going to make, but hey hey, it’s a light-hearted one, so why not one more…. OnePointSurveys and mBlox have released their final “Alternative Congress Stats wrap-up” – for those of you not familiar, mBlox commissioned OnePointSurveys to conduct…
Shazam announces Facebook app
Shazam has announced the launch of a Facebook app that enables Shazam users to put on their Facebook profile songs that they have recently captured vua Shazam’s service. (For those of you that don’t know, by dialing 2580 in the UK, you can hold the phone to any music source, and after 20 seconds or…
O2 sponsors Wireless Festival 2008
(note: yes, I know this is the poster for 2007!) O2 has announced itself as the lead sponsor of the Wireless Festival this year, making it four consecutive years. The festival will have a selection of international artists across four dates in July, as well new music from artists on the O2 blueroom stage. As…
Orange look at impact of techology on football
I don’t think I’ve posted a story about Mobile and Football being related, before – there’s always a first! Apparently the Orange Future of Football Report states that technology will infiltrated the beautiful game much sooner than we think. There are a number of potentially applicable areas for mobile technology to be utilised – highlights…
PacketVideo Mobile Broadcast Receiver: DVB-H to WiFi
PacketVideo used MWC to launch their Mobile Broadcast Receiver Product – which is a smallish device that receives DVB-H signals, and then streams them out over WiFi – clever! DVB-H is a component of the constantly hot news that is Mobile TV, and the fact that companies are looking to deliver these “DVB-H dongles”, shows…