Category: Interviews
Interview – Sony Ericsson: "Digital audio players won't exist in two years"
Okay, so a big mobile manufacturer saying that MP3 players will soon be toast isn't entirely surprising – they're keen to push their handsets' music capabilities after all. But Victor Fredell, Sony Ericsson's content acquisition manager for music, is still…
Shiny Video Interview: Mimi Rogers – ex-wife of Tom Cruise and poker player extrordinaire
Mimi Rogers was in town the other week promoting World Poker Tour and it’s recent launch online. She took time out to teach Susi how to play Texas Hold ‘Em, tell her about why women have the advantage over men in poker, and who was her favourite – Pacey or Dawson. Just what we always wanted to know…
Video Interview: Kat talks to English explorer David Hempleman-Adams about his Toshiba Transatlantic Challenge
As you read on the weekend, I’ve spent the past few days in Newfoundland, Canada, peeking in on the life of English explorer David Hempleman-Adams as he prepares for his world-record attempt at crossing the Atlantic in the world’s smallest helium-powered balloon. I managed to grab a few minutes before he departed into the air, to discuss his trip, and the Toshiba Portégé R500 notebook which he carried aboard…
Perez Hilton wants an iPhone
HE'S the undisputed Queen of the celebrity bloggers but Perez Hilton is the first to admit he's a total technophobe. In fact, he's only getting the internet in his flat next month when he moves – nearly THREE years after…
Shiny Video Interview: Kat speaks to Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com about Google, Nick Denton, Ask.com and who his next frenemy will be
Last night I had the privilege of speaking to Jason Calacanis, fresh off the plane from the US., on his first trip to the UK. Here to attend the NMK Forum (from which I’m liveblogging from as we speak), he had some exciting news to announce the next day, of which we’ve since learnt is Mahalo’s Greenhouse. Take a look at the video to hear him talk about his online ‘rivals’…
Interview: VoIP firm Jajah on T-Mobile investment and ad-funded VoIP prospects
Voice-over-IP firm Jajah is experimenting with advertising-funded models that could mean free telephony in the future. Although most VoIP services offer free calls now, they’re usually only to other users of that service, with calls to landlines or mobiles being charged – albeit at a lower rate than non-VoIP telephony.
PlusNet: "Consumers should be looking for ISPs who manage traffic"
ISP traffic management can be a controversial subject. On the one hand, it can mean your ISP ensuring your online gaming session or VoIP call go without a hitch. On the other, it could mean deliberately squashing your Skype call to try and get you to upgrade to the ISP’s own VoIP service. Like I said, controversial.
Interview: Honda on the future for its Asimo robot
At the CES show this year, Honda’s humanoid Asimo robot was one of the big hits. He didn’t just walk and trot up and down stairs. He ran. He played football. He danced. And through it all, he cracked jokes like a Vegas pro. You can watch our videos of it here.
Naturally, Honda isn’t pumping millions of dollars into Asimo’s R&D to get a few cheap laughs. The company uses the bot in its TV ads for starters. But in the long-term, Honda wants Asimo to become a genuinely helpful companion for us humans. I talked to Stephen Keeney, North American Asimo project leader at Honda, to find out more.
Interview: PKR's Jez San on blending online poker with The Sims
PKR.com has been described as a mixture of online poker and The Sims, which is as good a reference point as any. It’s a real-money online poker site, except instead of a top-down view with thumbnail cartoons to represent the…
CeBIT 2007: Linksys on how its new KiSS 1600 media adapter fits into its Connected Home vision
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to spend a week in Japan interviewing the likes of Sony and Panasonic about their visions of the connected homes of the future, where all your content (TV, music, internet data etc) would come into your house through a fat broadband pipe, into a media gateway device, which would then distribute it around the house.
