Us Brits are well known for our obsession with the weather, and for those of us who like to know what’s going on in the Cumulonimbus and Cirrocumulus departments at any given point of the day, the 4Cast mobile weather app for the Palm platform is one of the very best we’ve seen.
Able to download the latest Yahoo weather updates via hotsync, Bluetooth or wireless download, 4cast makes it easy to add your own list of city forecasts which can be updated individually or all at once. (more…)
We almost dribbled with must-have camera love when we got our hands on Ricoh’s high-end Caplio GX100 digital compact camera last year, and fresh moist patches have already appeared around the office with news of its successor, the GX200. (more…)
If proof were needed of the criminal waste created by the computer industry, new figures from research firm Gartner estimate that some 35 million PCs will be dumped into landfill this year, “with little or no regard” for their toxic content.
Gartner’s analyst Meike Escherich said he expected some 180 million computers to be replaced this year, with some being flogged off to second owners via auction sites and other channels, or simply given away.
We’ve been pretty excited about the eagerly awaited Sony Xperia X1 smartphone which we first talked about back in February this year.
Although it’s still to be released out in the wild, the phone was on display at the ITU Telecom Expo in Singapore and ready for passing punters to get their grubby mitts on its shiny, angular features.
With handsets offering bigger screens, video capabilities and faster download speeds the market for mobile pornography is set to soar according to industry insiders – with the iPhone proving the biggest hit amongst the thrill-seeking cognoscenti.
Declared “by far the porn-friendliest phone,” by Devan Cypher of San Francisco-based Sin City Entertainment, Apple’s iPhone has become the number one choice for many porn seekers.
Google’s plans to revolutionise the mobile industry with their open source mobile Android software appears to be proving a tougher challenge than expected, with the company now saying that the handsets won’t arrive until the fourth quarter – or early next year. (more…)
In the battle of the big two social networking sites, Facebook has cruised forward to take a “significant lead” in visitor numbers over its rival, MySpace.
According to traffic monitoring bods ComScore, Facebook hauled in more than 123m unique visitors in May, a hefty rise of 162 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Projections company Optomo has announced a pocket-sized video projector.
A long time back, Texas Instruments, or TI as it’s commonly referred to as, made the decision that they’d be a big player, if not the largest, in the world of video projectors.
Released with Palm’s now typical – and utterly baffling – lack of PR fanfare is a native Facebook client for their Palm Centro, Treo 755p and Treo 680 smartphones.
Encouraged by very healthy sales of its cut-price Palm Centro handset (sales are expected to hit two million for 2008), the Facebook client should prove a very good fit for the Centro’s consumer-orientated market.
Box fresh and ready to spread the big megapixel love is Sony Ericsson’s new C905 Cyber-shot cameraphone stuffing in a whopping 8.1MP of picture power and a ton of photography- focussed gizmos.
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