Back in the early days of the Web, newbies often used to refer to Web browsing as Surfing The Web, well there’s a new service that’s just launched that aims to help real Surfers on the Web.
Surf Buds tells us that they’re the first online social network created just for surfers.
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Yesterday’s UK iPhone review covered the Physical characteristic of the iPhone’s and its User Interface.
The Phone
There’s not a lot to say here yet. It works. A giant on screen keyboard means that manual dialling is error free, and the contacts list is incredibly quick to navigate. If you get a lot of voicemail, the visual voicemail feature will come in handy – the ability to see your voicemails as a list to choose from.
And, as well as being able to cherry pick the message you actually want to hear, you can stop, rewind, replay, just by dragging a slider. This comes into it’s own when someone has left a tediously long message, with one key bit of information right in the middle of it.
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If you’ve been frustrated at only being able to get video content on to your iPod than Apple has sanctioned for iTunes store release, your waiting is over.
Real has just announced the release of the latest version of RealPlayer, which lets you load up videos from anywhere on the Internet – including Flash-based services like YouTube – straight on to your iPod via your computer, as long as the content doesn’t have DRM protection on it.
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We’re all to aware that many sites have reviewed the iPhone, but the vast majority of them have been done by American sites.
Following last weeks UK release we thought it would be interesting to have a look at it through UK eyes, after all, nationalities use devices differently – a great example being the UK obsession with SMS texting, compared with the US not really seeing its value.
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Stewart Purvis, news super-hero and friend of DL, has been appointment as the new Partner for Content and Standards at Ofcom.
The Content and Standards Group oversees regulation of television and radio quality and standards and compliance with the Broadcasting Code.
He’s a hard-bitten newsman who has a strong understanding of technology and the changes that it is bring to the world of media.
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Leaking all over the web like a war-torn sieve are the press shots of Nokia’s new N82 mobile phone, which is expected to recieve its official launch today (Weds, 14th Nov).
The specs are yet to be confirmed, but from what we’ve heard so far, it looks to be a bit of a juicy fella, running on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and serving up quad-band GSM, 2100MHz HSDPA for Europe and offering twin cameras and Bluetooth connectivity.
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In an attempt to remove copious amounts of dumbness off web forums, a new open source application is being developed to detect and filter out “rampant stupidity in written English.”
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The Google-led Android project we reported last week has stepped up a gear with the release of the first version of its software developer kit (SDK).
A gaggle of videos have been released out into the wild, with boffin types enthusing about the fabness of the new mobile operating system and showcasing some of its benefits and features.
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The UK football club that is being bought by Web site, MyFootballClub has been announced today.
MyFootballClub (MyFC) is a revolutionary Web-based idea that will see the decisions of the management of the club – transfers, player selection and all major decisions – carried out by the paid-up members of the site – perhaps one of the only true forms of democracy still left. Thinks of it as fantasy football, but with a real team.
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Got 0.25 million Euros rattling around in your pockets and looking for a new mobile phone? KMD-edition will be more that willing to help you out.
They’ve just released a range of phones that are certainly not for the average man in the street, and not just because of the cost.
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