Simon Perry

  • Google Fanboys At G1 Launch

    Google Fanboys At G1 LaunchDid you see the Google fanboys at the G1 mobile launch yesterday?

    When ‘surprise guests,’ Google head honchoes Larry Page and Sergey Brin came on stage there’s was mass rush for anything that can take a photo, to snap pictures of these strange stars.

    Video camera, still camera and mobile phones were grabbed and raised aloft in an effort to capture the moment when the assembled were breathing the same air as these hallowed beings.

    As a remote observer, it felt like this was a story that those there would be dinnig out on the story and eventually be telling their grand children about in the future.

    We found it pretty bizzare.

  • “The Truth About Mobile Phones” Revealed

    Decide What To Buy have an interesting piece about “The truth about mobile phones.”

    They’ve gone out and asked 31,000 people about their mobile phones and collated the info.

    It reveals what we all knew really, that people primarily buy phone for what the look like.

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  • HTC Touch HD (Video) World First

    HTC Touch HD (Video) World FirstSome clever French chaps calling themselves Generation Phone House seem to have got their hands on a pre-release HTC Touch HD – and luckily enough for all of us, they’ve shot a video showing the device.

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  • Tudou launches HD service

    Tudou launches HD serviceTudou, 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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  • Police USB Memory Stick Lost

    Police USB Memory Stick LostIt’s starting to feel like we could almost start a new site _just_ about data loss in the UK.

    The latest is West Midlands Police who are reported as having lost a 4GB USB memory stick containing unencrypted classified information about suspected terrorists.

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  • Sky Max: Actually Going Unlimited

    Sky Max: Actually Going UnlimitedAs you’ll know, many broadband providers sell you unlimited boradband service that are actually … limited.

    Under the guise of a Fair Use Policy (FUP), you are slapped on the wrist if you download more than they’ve deemed as fair. After a few slaps, they’ll cut you off.

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  • Pace DC50X Wins First New Energy Star Program Award

    Pace DC50X Wins First New Energy Star Program AwardPace, UK suppliers of digital TV products, have become the first company to receive an award under the new Energy Star Program.

    Energy Star is voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency.

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  • Jason Binks, Now Head Of Digital and New Media, ITV Worldwide

    Jason Binks, Now Head Of Digital and New Media, ITV WorldwideITV Worldwide have a new Vice President of Digital and New Media.

    Jason Binks joins the company to look after all aspects of digital rights, including DTO (Download-To-Own), DTR (Download-To-Rent), and VOD (Video On Demand).

    ITV tell us that he will also support the television and home entertainment sales teams at ITV Worldwide and deal with technology companies in this new environment.

    Binks joins from Roo Media, where he was Senior Sales and Distribution Director for Europe for ten months

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  • Twitter-spam Hits

    Twitter-spam HitsOnly 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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  • Twitter: A Creative Tool?

    Twitter: A Creative Tool?As with all new forms of communiation, after a while of them being about, some clever creative types comes up with an idea that uses the technology, allowing them to flex their creative muscles.

    One of the oft-cited example is Lonely Girl on YouTube which proported to be a 15 year old girl stuck in difficult times. Within a short period of time LonelyGirl15 was rumbled as being connected to Hollywood powerhouse talent agency, Creative Artists Agency.

    Now Twitter
    As we all know, Twitter has been around for quite a while now, so it was interesting to hear about a similar creative writing excercise taking place on there.

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