Yay or Nay: Nokia N95
This week's Yay or Nay Wednesday is the just announced Nokia N95 (watch Katie's NY preview). It's a monster-featured multimedia phone/camera/music player with all manner of communication possibilities, with Bluetooth, HSDPA, GPS amongst others. What do you reckon. Is it…
Silver-zinc batteries debut as next-gen to lithium-ion
Zinc Matrix Power has unveiled its new rechargeable battery technology at the Intel Developers Forum, based on silver-zinc instead of lithium-ion currently used in many modern rechargeable batteries. They see three main advantages that their amalgamation of silver, zinc and…
Happy Birthday Google: 8 today
Can you believe Google is 8 years old today? (or at least, this is its official birthday.) If you've not been on the Net for long, you might not remember a world without Google, but back in the nineties, Alta…
Apple and podcast: Update and 'the truth'
I, along with some bigger names on the Net, have been rapped for reports that Apple is trying to trademark the term 'podcast'. Rob from Podcast411.com picked me up in the comments of that article: Actually your article is not…
Wednesday interview: Michael Kornhauser of ALK on why satnav is going mobile
Could the next killer app for mobile phones be satellite navigation? ALK certainly hopes so. The company has been selling its CoPilot Live application for PDAs and smartphones for some time now, but in the latter case it's always…
Apple .mac webmail to be upgraded
Apple is to update the features on its subscription-based .mac webmail service to make it look and feel more like Mac OS X Mail client on the desktop. With the tag line "Totally new. Totally familiar" Apple are playing up…
YouTube Video of the Day – Disco Dancing, Finnish Geriatric Style
Holy mother of Jeebus… what happens when you let two old people loose on telly to teach the world how to Disco dance? Well, you get a dry delivery, and a pair of coffin dodgers prancing around to some expertly…
Sony to introduce e-book reader and online store
Sony will launch its Portable Reader System PRS-50 e-book reader in the US during October, alongside an online digital book store with some 10,000 DRM-protected titles for purchase and use on the machine. Whilst specs are sketchy at present, it…
iZak – a portable media device for movies and music
Another new portable media device on the market, this time it’s iZak, a PC and Mac-friendly device that stores your music, movie and data files to view on any TV. Available as a 40GB or 80GB drive, iZak connects…
Gya – memory and reflex games from a meteorite
Big in Japan and threatening to be big over here this Christmas is Gya – a meteorite-shaped gadget that test your memory and your reflexes. The story of Gya (Japanese for "scream") is typically far-fetched – "a meteorite has…