Mobile News: Firefox Mobile Hits Alpha, Blackberry App Centre

Mobile News: Firefox Mobile Hits Alpha, Blackberry App CentreAn alpha version of the long awaited Mobile Firefox browser is expected to be released soon.

According to Mozilla Foundation had honcho John Lilly, the alpha version (currently code-named Fennec) will be let out of its cage in next few weeks with brave, nay, reckless, foolhardy and heedless users invited to install the no doubt bug-laden alpha creation on their handhelds.

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Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes Competitor

Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes CompetitorFor 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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MySpace And Facebook Dominate Mobile Social Networks

MySpace And Facebook Dominate Mobile Social NetworksIndustry giants Facebook and MySpace are the most popular social networking websites for mobile phone users, according to figures released by ABI Research.

Their survey found that nearly half (46 per cent) of people signed up to social networks have also whipped out their mobile phones to access the sites.

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Vodafone Launches Books on Mobile Service

Vodafone Launches Books on Mobile ServiceMobile operator titans Vodafone are letting rip with a literary blast blasting the book world with their new service bringing books to mobile handsets.

The service will offer books to perambulating punters at a cost of a fiver to a hefty fifteen quid (what?!), with the cost of purchases lobbed on to the user’s monthly Vodafone bill. Thanks to nippy 3G/HSDPA technology a three-hour audio book can be downloaded in three minutes, and with shiny new smartphones like the iPhone and Android serving up bigger screens, reading a book on a phone becomes less of a chore.

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MySpace Music: 1 Billion Songs Streamed “In A Few Days”

MySpace Music: 1 Billion Songs Streamed MySpace is claiming that its MySpace Music service has already streamed well over a billion songs since launching on September 25.

The company are being a little vague with the details but it seems that the billion song total was reached only a ‘few days’ after launch.

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Looking For The Ultimate Netbook (8.9″ Screen Edition)

Looking For The Ultimate Netbook (8.9After weeks of deliberation, we worked out that netbooks with 10″+ screens were just too big for our needs, so our attention drifted to smaller screened models.

The first gen Asus Eee’s with their paltry 7″ screen were immediately discounted as we didn’t fancy indulging in a scrolling frenzy every time we looked at a website, which left the 8.9″ models for consideration.

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Search Like It’s 2001 On Google

Search Like It's 2001 on GoogleGoogle 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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