Month: October 2006
ROK launches world’s first converged mobile and PC subscription-free TV service – FreeBe TV
Not content with offering a free mobile TV service to GPRS handsets, ROK has gone one step further – offering those TV channels free to PCs, with a PC-enabled version of FreeBeTV, the world’s first subscription-free mobile TV service…
Ms. Dewey: Search engine with a really annoying personality
In a world where "Google" has become a verb, how can any other search engine hope to compete? For the brains behind Ms. Dewey, the answer was a flash site in the style of Subservient Chicken (which is really…
Periodic Table of Elements Shower Curtain
The shower is, undoubtedly, one of the top five places to get stuff done, and by stuff I mean deep thinking, and you bloody well knew what I meant. If that deep thinking involves the nature of the universe,…
Website of the Day: Barry is Puzzled
Today's Website of the Day is "Barry is Puzzled" – the puzzle website of Barry R Clarke. It's a selection of puzzles, films, and articles that should provide some entertainment….
Vodafone's exclusive Motorola V1100 coming for Christmas
One of the exclusive mobile phones Vodafone is launching in time for Christmas this year is the Motorola V1100, a 3G clamshell phone that claims a 'sporty design' (whatever that means). It'll come with mobile TV, Vodafone Radio DJ, and…
Grr! Britain gets its first Web Rage attack
Flaming is a much-cherished internetweb tradition, involving as it does torrid abuse for any fellow messageboard or email-list member who doesn't agree with you. It's all a bit of fun, after all, it's not as if the person you slag…
Wikipedia's co-creator will launch another social media site
The co-creator of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, is all set to launch a new online social media encyclopaedia in direct competition to Wikipedia. The new site, Citizendium, which goes live in a few days time, is supposed to balance the 'anyone…
Carphone Warehouse launch mobile phone auction site
The Carphone Warehouse has launched an online auction site dedicated exclusively to selling used mobile phones. It grandly claims it'll be in direct competition with eBay for the second-hand mobile market, and says there's a real need for it in…
Sony recall its own laptop batteries
I'm surprised it's not happened sooner, but at last Sony have chosen to recall their own batteries from their own notebook computers. Initially it's just for those in China and Japan, so if you're a Vaio or other Sony notebook…
Many Orange broadband subscribers lose connections
There have been reports of woe for a large number of Orange broadband subscribers who have not had broadband connections since Monday afternoon due to network equipment failure. I've heard previous complaints about Orange broadband customer service, so it's not…