Sony Ericsson’s new W980 clamshell handset from the Walkman series is expected to be unleashed into the wild sooner than expected, aping the equally unexpected early release of their W760 phone.
The official launch date of W980 was vaguely set as the “third quarter of 2008”, but after several recent sightings ‘in the wild’ an earlier release may be on the cards.
Mozilla has released its first Release candidate (RC1) for the third version of its hugely popular Firefox Web browser.
A Microsoft developer, Intersoft in Indonesia, has developed a Mac Aqua clone … in Microsoft’s Sliverlight.
The product, WebAqua, doesn’t hide its similarity to Apple’s Aqua interface, it even celebrates it with phrases like, “perfect for helping you bringing Mac-OS look and feel to your next-generation Web application.”
Google extends video playback to Google News.
We’ve known for a while that Google Search has been displaying video results with the ability to expand and play within the search results – in fact it was about a year ago.
Further to our pieces on normal people taking photos and videos of the actual earthquake in Chengdu and it effects, we’re grateful to Garth who sent us this video.
Monitise, a company that provides banking and payment service via mobile phones, has announced that it will be offering their services in East Africa.
Much has been written previously about how mobile phones provide the communications — spoken and Internet — to many countries where their physical, in-ground infrastructure falls far behind their wireless links.
We covered yesterday morning how photos taken by individuals in Chengdu, China and posted to a mobile social network site had beaten news reports to publishing the story.
We’re big fans of the Vodafone Mobile Broadband service. It’s served us well in many situations, giving a glance of what a a truly connected future will be like. We’ve used it for years to provide live coverage of product launches, as well as politically important local politics events, like the Isle of Wight council threatening to close half of the Island’s Primary schools.
We’re all aware of how the news media has been changed by the use of photos and video shot by members of the public and sent in to news desks.
They provide the instant captures of the moment events happen and enables viewers of the news to be in places that news crews just can’t get to. Early examples of this was the London Tube Bombings.
The latest we’ve come across is the shocking earthquake at Chengdu in China.
Yesterday in the UK Parliament, John Spellar, Labour MP for Warley, asked how much the Prison Service spent on “providing satellite television services in prisons in 2007-08.”
Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice) told him that the answer couldn’t be given, as costs that small aren’t recorded.
She did point out that satellite TV wasn’t available in inmates cells (cue sigh of relief from Daily Mail readers) and it was up to the Governor if it was laid on in the shared areas at all.