Author: Gary Cutlack
Steve Jobs: "MobileMe wasn't good enough" to ship alongside iPhone 3G
Showing the sort of honesty that important company bosses only ever display well after a product launch, Steve Jobs has criticised the iPhone 3G’s MobileMe synching app, saying it’s, well, a bit rubbish.
In the internal email to Apple staff, leaked to tech blog Ars Somethingorother, Steve said “It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same…
IKEA Family Mobile – the new phone service from the Swedish furniture flogger
Yes. Yes, it has. It really has. IKEA has just assembled itself a piece of the UK mobile phone market, thanks to a newly-announced tie-up with T-Mobile.
IKEA Family Mobile, as the service will be known, will be available to members of the IKEA Family loyalty scheme. Once you’ve bought £10 of IKEA pre-paid airtime you get fixed-price calls and texts – 9p per minute for calls and 6p per text…
Grand Theft Auto IV blamed for Thai killing – game pulled from shelves
This isn’t your usual tabloid shock story, where there was a robbery and one of the items taken just so happened to be a PlayStation. This is FOR REAL.
A Thai teenager has confessed to robbing and killing a taxi driver – then allegedly told police he was trying to recreate a scene from Grand Theft Auto. There’s no denying the facts or fudging the issue here – he was copying the game. It’s a 100% confirmed copycat crime. There’s going to be trouble over this. Big trouble.
“He said he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game,” chief police investigator…
Man "portablizes" Super Nintendo
It’s a beautiful piece. The cheap case gives it a pleasingly utilitarian early-1990s design appearance, with simplistic buttons that you could easily believe Nintendo would’ve chucked into a handheld SNES – had it bothered to make one back in the day. And look at that chunky power button. Imagine the satisfying click it makes.
The poor guy started the portable SNES project last Christmas and eventually finished it last week. Here’s how it turned out.
The chap used an off-the-shelf plastic case to whack most of the SNES bits in…
BRACE THE INTERNET: iPhone Nano rumours surface – Christmas launch on the way
“Oh my god… *stares at the internet*… it’s STARTING AGAIN.”
Just as soon as we’re over the iPhone 3G rumour period of HELL, another supposed Apple “exclusive” rears its head – this time regarding a newer, smaller iPhone that everyone’s clearly going to be calling the iPhone Nano…
Dell WANTS IN on the MP3 player and music retailing scene?
Box-shifter par excellence Dell is planning to enter the MP3 player market, according to a bit of sniffing around from the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ reckons that Dell wants a bit of the lucrative music retailing pie as well, so is planning to launch what industry experts will be calling an “iTunes killer” alongside its alleged range of players…
The "Heart Robot" that just wants to be needed
It looks like a Teletubby that’s had all its skin burned off in an industrial accident, but don’t let that put you off – the Heart Robot is very friendly on the inside.
Designed by The University of the West of England’s David McGoran, the robot likes a good cuddle. Its heart starts pounding when it’s particularly excited, plus its eyes flutter when you touch it – and its puny limbs tense themselves for a smack round the head or a shove down the stairs when it hears raised voices…
U SND 200 MLN TXTS 2DAY, INNIT
Incredibly, the number of text messages us lot in the UK send is continuing to rise, according to the Mobile Data Association.
The MDA reckons we’re burning through our free text allowance at a rate of 200 million text messages a day, which, by my maths, is nearly four texts per person every day – a rise of 30% over the number we sent last year…
Fujitsu's sub-atomic 5.6in Lifebook U2010
Another hour, another few millimetres shaved off the sides and top of the latest hyper-mega-super-ultra-portable laptop device.
This is the Fujitsu Lifebook U2010, which takes “small” to whole new levels. Particularly with its screen, a smallest-in-class 5.6″ in size – although it does swivel, allowing it to operate in full tablet mode…
Miss World "gets with the programme" – IPTV ogling channel launched
Oh yes. Today could finally be the day that people bother working out what exactly IPTV is, and how it works, then find a way of getting it. Because, as well as a new intercative web site, the Miss World…
