Posted by Simon Perry on 2 December 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, UK
Nick Curtis has written a poorly-researched piece in the Evening Standard that attempts to take a chunk out of Twitter, while asking if ‘Twitter is the new Facebook.’
Why poorly-researched? Well, he starts the piece saying that Tweets are 160 characters long - and as anyone who has ever looked at the sevice will know, they’re […]
Posted by Steve Kennedy on 2 December 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Business, Shift to Web delivery, UK
It’s possible that some people reading this won’t have heard of Sun. They’re a big computer company that has gone through many iterations (during the dotcom boon their moto was “The computer is the network”).
We’ve covered a background below to get you up to speed on Sun, but before that, we’ve got an overview on […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 December 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Mobile, Cellular
Every day more people are accessing data services from their mobile phones, like Internet browsing, Twittering, checking Facebook.
Virgin Mobile are to be offering a 30p per day Internet tariff from 8 December to tempt people to their network, or indeed keep them.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Video on Demand (VoD), Mobile, Cellular
The Met Office, well-know weather forecasters, are to offer a world’s first - a free-of-charge (beyond any of your own mobile data charges), video on-demand weather service to your mobile phone.
Access will be via a branded portal (lovely to hear that phrase again :) ), giving access to weather forecasts that will be updated several […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 25 November 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Web, Research
As smartphones hit the mainstream, mobile use soars.
Posted by Simon Perry on 24 November 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Business, Shift to Web delivery, UK
If you’re planning on ordering a UK train ticket online today, you’re out of luck, by the looks of it.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 November 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, UK, Mobile, Reviews
In Part One and Part Two we worked our way through some of the best smartphones on the market.
LG KF750 Secret
Looking way slick with its carbon fibre battery cover and tempered glass display, the Secret is a neat sliderphone packed with a ton of multimedia gizmos wedged into its slimline frame.
There’s a 5MP […]
Posted by Steve Kennedy on 20 November 2008 | Tagged as: Business, UK, Mobile
FOM (Future of Mobile) is an event run by Carsonified who also run FOWA (the Future of Web Applications) previously reported by Digital Lifestyles. It took place on Monday and Tues this week (17/18th Nov) in Kensington.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 November 2008 | Tagged as: Web 2.0, UK, BBC
The iPlayer contributes to the growing popularity of the bbc.co.uk Web site.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 18 November 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, UK, Google, Mobile, Cellular
Innovative Android powered handset isn’t flying off the shelves - but who’s to blame?
