Posted by Simon Perry on 9 October 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Mobile
During a frenetic presentation at FOWA in London, Stefan Fountain from Soocial announced that their contact-anywhere service would be supporting interfacing to Outlook allowing your contacts to stay up to date.
Alongside that, news of a newly supported mobile platform - the Blackberry - was also announced.
No release data were given - but will be soon, […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 October 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Advertising, Music, Software, Reviews
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music - pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 2 October 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Google, Search
Google has been going ten years this year and to mark the occassion they’ve released a version of their database as of ten years ago.
First thing that you’ll notice is that it’s got an old school Google logo - not exactly sure if that’s the accurate one, as drop-shadows might have been beyond them.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 2 October 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Business, UK, Music
A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.
As Nokia launches their ‘music with phones’ offering today and T-Mobile/Google offered music for the G1, we’ve heard of another company using music to tempt people towards their product.
Nectar, who provide a loyalty card which gives points against purchases, have launched Nectar Music Store in […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 29 September 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Google, Mobile, Cellular
Search giant adds live traffic feature, Wales and Scotland left out in the cold.
Posted by Steve Kennedy on 25 September 2008 | Tagged as: Banking, Services, UK, Mobile
Many financial institutions have long promised the ability to bank via your mobile, well now it’s a reality, at least for LloydsTSB customers (so presumably also for HBOS customers soon following their recent acquisition).
The mobile banking app is a Java application that should run on most mobile phone, well ones that support Java.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 18 September 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Video Services, China, HDTV
Tudou, the Shangahi-based video sharing site that is reported to stream over 15 billion minutes of video every day — thrashing YouTube’s 3 Bn — has just launched an HD service.
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Posted by Steve Kennedy on 11 September 2008 | Tagged as: Services, VoIP
All providers of electronic communication networks are governed by the Communications Act 2003 which contains several general conditions and around 21 of these relate to communication networks.
Anyone running a communications network has obligations under the General Conditions and General Condition 4 (GC4) relates to emergency services.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 4 September 2008 | Tagged as: Services
Only yesterday we were talking about how creative people embrace new technology and use them to stimulate us with positive ideas (although some might not approve of the results) … well, there’s two other groups of people who also exploit technology, beyond the ‘normal’ user. They are pornographers and spammers - both driven by money.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2008 | Tagged as: Sports, Video Services, USA
When I was in Beijing last year there was a lot of talk of the current Olympic being the first ‘Broadband Olympics.’
It appear that for one US broadcaster, NBC, it’s becoming true.
The number of people accessing their Olympic coverage are highly impressive. After a week of the Games, NBC have had 25 million unique visitors […]
