Seen lurking behind Bill Gates head in his presentation at CES 2008 was a photo of a new high-end Windows Mobile Palm phone, rumoured to be the replacement to the well-received Treo 750w.
According to Vodafone UK documents leaked on the web, the new Treo 800w (850w?) phone regales under the codename of the ‘Palm Drucker’, and packs a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with a tri-band 3G/3.6 UMTS/HSDPA radio, running Windows Mobile 6.1.
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Microsoft is currently developing a revolutionary change to its Windows Mobile 7 mobile device operating system, with an interesting touch and motion interface, according to an insider blog.
Hollywood studio big boys Warner Bros have dealt Toshiba and the HD DVD gang a mighty kick in the lasers by declaring that their high-definition DVD titles will soon be released exclusively in the rival Blu-ray disc format.
We take a look at the snappers that have tickled our fancy in 2007 and award out ‘Best of’ prizes:
Fujifilm FinePix F50fd (around £180/$220)
It may look a little bit less than super-stylish, but don’t let appearances put you off: the Fujifilm can takes great pictures and comes with a raft of smart-arse features like image stabilisation, face-detection technology, fast start up and a high ISO performance that is second to none in its price range.
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Here’s a natty little application for folks frustrated with the limited resolution of the cameras built into their Palm OS devices.
Photos HQ is a program that lets you snap photographs at a higher quality than the default camera settings, and offers a few tweaks in the bargain too.
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Well worth a visit in Manhattan, New York is tech magazine’s Wired’s “pop-up retail store” at 160 Wooster Street, SoHo.
Opened for the holiday shopping season, the warehouse space stokes gadget lust to the max, letting punters test drive the latest consumer gadgets and gear.
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In a cunning move aimed at saving the two companies £2 billion over the next 10 years, T-Mobile and 3 UK have slapped backs and agreed to team up and share a national, HSPA-enabled 3G network in the UK.
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The whole blinkin’ world is going SMS bonkers, with a leading technology research firm predicting that no less 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008.
The eye-wateringly hefty figure represents a 19.6 percent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages, with research outfit Gartner expecting mobile messaging revenue to grow by 15.7 percent in 2008 to $60.2 billion, up from $52 billion in 2007.
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US online retailers have had a bumper holiday season, with virtual cash tills rattling to a $22 billion spending bonanza, up a hefty 18% increase from the same period last year.
The figures come from stat-loving boffins comScore, who recently released updated figures for the holiday e-commerce season spending for the first 44 days of the November – December 2007 holiday season (1 November – 14 December).
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More and more Americans are ‘vanity searching’ – typing their own names into Google – with many also using search engines to sniff out info about their friends, co-workers and romantic interests.
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