Month: May 2006
Weekly YouTube Round-Up
The video below is of Apple's new store grand opening, on the famed 5th Avenue in New York City. The poor chap who filmed the 3.5 min video stood in line for 3 hours before being able to squeeze his…
Mobile TV "crap" and "like bad porn" says, er, a user
Just one, anyway. As part of design firm Alloy’s presentation at today’s MEX conference, they showed a video snippet of one mobile user trying to watch TV on a 3G handset. And you could say they weren’t impressed: "That is…
What's needed for the perfect mobile MySpace
Why is MySpace such a runaway success? Because it's a jack of all trades, apparently. This, at least, was the message from Frederick Ghahramani of technology firm AirG, speaking at today's MEX conference in London. He was talking about mobile…
The Mobile Phone Of The Future is Here!
Design firm Alloy used today's MEX conference – it stands for Mobile User Experience – to unveil its latest concept phone, the Polygon. It's their attempt to design a handset that's actually half-decent for accessing multimedia content – whether it's…
Eliminate Foreign Spam in Outlook Express
In the past few months Propellerhead has noticed an alarming increase in the amount of foreign spam. Most of it seems to be Russian in origin but there are also good few Chinese, Japanese and Korean messages as well….
Is Apple turning to games?
According to Games Digest, a report on US gaming site Gamespot states that Apple is currently putting together a working party of games industry folk, quite possibly with an eye on entering the games market. It's believed that the…
Orange rebrands Wanadoo – and offers free broadband
Orange has announced it is bringing together mobile, fixed-line and broadband, rebranding Wanadoo as Orange in the process and offering free broadband with some mobile packages. Customers signing up to a pay monthly mobile contract over £30 per month…
Packard Bell's Store & Play – take your music and movies with you
Aimed at those on the move, who want to take their favourite music and movies with them, Packard Bell’s Store & Play is a storage device that’s simple to use and solid enough to withstand the knocks of the…
Try GNER's WiFi on the train for free
GNER reckons that all its East Coast trains will be equipped for WiFi by August this year, so to celebrate, it's offering the service free of charge this summer. As an attempt to get punters used to using it,…
The inflatable Office in a Bucket
Do we really need offices anymore? If you can pick up a wireless connection and have a mobile phone in your pocket, it's only the four walls you're really missing. And you'll have that if you pick up the…