Tag: Katherine Hannaford
Nokia shows off touchscreen 'Tube' mobile, their touted 'iPhone killer'
It’s good of Nokia to join the hordes of mobile manufacturers vying to topple Apple from the Touchscreen throne, with news breaking today about their ‘Tube’ concept phone.
It was shown off at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference over in California, where the Vice President of Forum Nokia, Tom Libretto, claimed Apple’s five million sold units is a drop in the ocean compared to Nokia’s, as “we’ve done that since we’ve had dinner on Friday”. Forgetting, of course, they’re mostly entry-level PAYG models…
Sony announces MDR-NC500D headphones, world's first digital noise-cancelling pair
Another product to add to the ‘world’s first’ category, Sony claims these MDR-NC500D headphones are the world’s first digital noise-cancelling pair.
With 99% of ambient noise cut out supposedly (although that’s based on ‘Sony’s measurement standards’ apparently), they use digital technology with Artificial Intelligence, with an internal processor adapting the level of cancellation dependent on the outside noise. The ‘AI Mode’ button lets you choose from three cancellation modes, alternatively press down and hold…
YouTube Hits: Katie Lee interviews author Tim Ferriss
Lifehacking. It’s a term you’ve probably heard of, thanks to the Lifehacker blog, but did you know author Tim Ferriss has published a book called ‘The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich’, which shows you how plenty of productivity tips, including how to outsource your work? It’s true, and he spoke to Dollymix Guest Editor Katie Lee recently about it. Take a look…
The Chinese Egoman MP810RSTD-43 PMP will never launch here, sadly
Colourful circles aren’t the only feature the Egoman PMP has in spades, oh no. With a 480 x 272 resolution, it can play a bunch of file formats plus radio and even record audio. No word on whether it can make you a prawn schezuan dish for dinner, though.
The 4.3-inch touchscreen display houses 16.7 million colours, and can play WVI and RMVB at 30fps, along with MP3, WMA, ADPCM, WAV, APC, FLAC and display JPG, BMP and GIFs. Recording audio into ADPCM or WMA codecs, the…
Radiohead launches social networking site for gossip about Thom's hair, Waste-Central
They’ve already asked you to create music videos for their In Rainbows album, and given you the task of remixing their single ‘Nude’, now they’re demanding you waste even more of your time helping them own the internet, with their aptly-named new social networking site, Waste-Central.
Powered by the Ning platform which 50 Cent also uses, Waste-Central lets fans post videos, remixes, photos, music files, blog and even sign up for a special Radiohead email address. The main attraction to the site is the gigapedia-type service so you can find the gig you’re going to, meet the other fans who’ve spent £42.50 on a ticket, and obviously arrange to meet up before or after the gig to talk about Thom Yorke’s hair…
Microsoft and Yahoo stayed up late all weekend on Messenger, still no decision made
The weekend was not a quiet one for the oppressive Microsofties and underlingers Yahoo, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer issuing Yahoo an ultimatum in an open letter to the board of directors, ranting “our goal in making such a generous offer was to create the basis for a speedy and ultimately friendly transaction. Despite this, the pace of the last two months has been anything but speedy.”
He’s given Yahoo three weeks to accept the offer, or Microsoft will usurp Yahoo’s board of directors, replacing them with new, more Microsoft-friendly officers….
Sony Ericsson aims to attract the youngsters with the Def Jam W910i phone
Sony Ericsson has teamed up with Def Jam Records and The Carphone Warehouse, to ‘bring the bling’ as the press release states, with the limited edition W910i Walkman handset.
Coming bundled with MPS 75 speakers, the phone contains exclusive Def Jam tracks and video, including ditties from Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Ne-Yo and Fabolous (full list under the jump). Exclusive…
Radiopaq radio service launches officially today with new features and Mac compatibility
The radio search engine Radiopaq, which launched in beta in February, has now officially gone live today with some new services to dazzle your aural senses.
Aggregating thousands of radio stations from within the UK and abroad, it streams them through the site, all for free. Now compatible with Macs (when using Safari), it offers 35% more stations than it did back in February, with an improved layout, predictive search, personalised profiles and even weather and…
YouTube Hits: 14 year old kid parodies Fergalicious with 'Mathmaticious'
When I watched this video on Saturday morning, it had just over 10,000 views. Looking now, it’s had close to 800,000 – I think I contributed about 400,000 views to that number in the last few days. I am obsessed.
“A mathematical parody of Fergie’s Fergalicious”, the 14 year old kiddynerdzoid behind the video claims. Watch it. And watch it again. Let’s hope Fergie employs him for her next music video…
Samsung announces first HSUPA phone, the SCH-M470
HSUPA, that little internet devil which made it big at the recent Mobile World Congress, has been employed by Samsung in their latest phone for the Korean market, the SCH-M470.
Belonging to the HSPA family of mobile internet connectivity, High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is similar to HSDPA which you see in most 3G phones now, however it has up-link speeds of up to 5.76Mbit/s, with transmissions…
