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WMC 2008: Microsoft tries to take credit for inventing RSS feeds – launches MSN Direct on Windows Mobile
Don’t really understand what the big idea is behind MSN Direct, to be honest.
It seems to be a system a bit like the Windows Vista sidebar, that lets you see weather reports and read news headlines and watch your share values plummet in real time on your Windows Mobile device…
DataWind announces new PocketSurfer2 accessory line
DataWind has announced a range of products for its PocketSurfer2 mobile Internet device.
MWC 2008: The top 10 hottest phones
Phew. Yesterday was without a doubt one of the most exciting days in the history of the mobile with innovative launches everywhere you looked. Judging by the new range of handsets it really is worth hanging on until at least…
Three strikes and you're back to reading books – UK internet anti-piracy rules revealed
Good god, they’re actually going ahead with it.
Next week, says The Times, the government will introduce its Green Paper outlining plans to officially adopt a similar anti-piracy stance to the one used in France – get caught downloading copyrighted material three times and your internet connection will be terminated…
Unlikely partnership of the day: Dixons and Interflora selling roses and daffodils to geeks
Someone at Dixons has had an idea. The idea is to channel its presumably overwhelmingly male audience off to Interflora, in order to relieve their guilt at spending £60 on a new wireless router when the old wireless router still worked perfectly well.
Dixons Flowers is the disappointingly dull name for the venture, and here’s how they describe it:
“Whether you want to make a romantic gesture, say thank you or relieve your guilt…
Yahoo! says "no" to Microsoft – thinks it's worth more than $45 billion
Yahoo! rejected Microsoft’s friendly buyout offer over the weekend, saying that MS’s $45bn offer “massively undervalues” the Yahoo! brand.
Clearly still thinking it’s 1997 and Google doesn’t exist yet, Yahoo! is apparently sticking out for $40 a share – a significant increase on Microsoft’s $31 offer. That would result in MS having to turn Bill Gates upside down and shake out another $12 billion to get the deal signed…
MWC 2008: Texas Instruments showing off Google's Android TODAY! And a prototype handset…
Good old Texas Instruments, which isn’t just there for the boring things in life like calculators, is showing off its Google Android developments at the Mobile World Conference. Which is happening today. It’s happening RIGHT NOW, in fact.
Texas Instruments will also be demonstrating an Android-powered handset based on its OMAP850 processor – a clever little multi-core chip for mobile devices that also includes Wilreless LAN and Bluetooth tech as standard. TI’s prototype Google Phone will allow “one button access” to stuff like your web browser, email and no doubt the omnipresent Google Maps…
MWC 2008: Motorola's heart not in it – the Z6w, W161 and W181 wouldn't even impress the catering staff
After making such a vast loss in the mobile part of its business last year, you might’ve expected Motorola to come out KICKING and possibly SCREAMING at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2008 show. But no.
It revealed the wi-fi-enhanced Z6W, which is an upgraded version of the Z6M. That’s the one on the left.
MWC 2008 Video Preview: Sony Ericsson's Cybershot C902
With HSDPA and a 5-megapixel camera, this C902 handset from Sony Ericsson’s Cybershot range…
MWC 2008: Nokia's N78 "multimedia community phone"
Crikey. The multimedia bit seems to refer to the N78’s ability to let you spend money buying music from the Nokia Music Store, with the phone also packing an FM radio for all you MUSIC THIEVES out there.
The N78 also has a rather impressive 3.2megapixel camera with lenses and bits from global Lensmaster Carl Zeiss, plus it does Nokia Maps and lets you share stuff via Nokia’s online youth portal Ovi. And there’s the A-GPS system for managing to find your dad’s house first time, and also advanced features like geo-tagging your photos…
