Software
Accessing social networking websites on your mobile is apparently the “next big thing” according to the spods at Neilsen Research, with UK users leading the European vanguard.
Their research has revealed that 1.7 per cent of UK mobile phone subscribers (that’s 810,000 users) have used their Internet enabled handsets to visit popular social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace during the first quarter of this year.
After all of the hubub at the LG Secret, the KF750, global launch died down a little in London, we caught up with John Barton, LG UK Sales and Marketing Director, to find out more about the LG Secret.
After bits and pieces about the naming of the product —
Why is it called secret? His take – the phone reveals itself to the user as they use it — we got on to talk about the M-Toy feature.
We’ve all seen the rise of social networks and their replacement by others, as the fashion changes.
Many devoted their lives to MySpace when it arose, collecting as many MySpace ‘friends’ as possible to show others of their ‘friends’ just how ‘popular’ they were.
You’ll all be aware of the hoopla around the release of Grand Theft Auto 4, or GTA4, as it’s now known. We thought we’d take a different tack to other publications and publish the review of one of our readers, Andrew N.
As you may well remember, Nokia brought out the N-Gage games/phone back before 2003, following it up with the N-Gage 1.5, then the second generation N-Gage QD (June 2004). None of them really set the world alight.
After buying Sega’s mobile gaming unit (2003), they finally got around to launching the service that let N-Gage owners buy games online in 2006.
Released last week, Astraware’s Platypus shoot’em up game has already proved a button-straining hit on our handheld.
The sideways scrolling, arcade-style shooter has a lovely retro feel to do it, with graphics created using claymation-style effects, giving the game a fun, sci-fi, Aardman-esque look.
After we wrote the story about PongOut — Pong and Breakout, both on the same screen, played at the same time — we got a connected about another version of Pong.
This time the smallest version of Pong known to mankind – smaller than a fingernail.
If you feel like you need a break from work — and who doesn’t every now and again — and want to make your brain ache a little, let us introduce Pongout.
It’s a combination of two old video games, Breakout and Pong.
Microsoft’s long serving XP operating system is set to be given its final set of tweaks with the Windows XP SP3 system update expected to be unleashed to Joe Public on April 29th.
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In what we think is a first, Ricky Gervais will deliver comedy routines in a video game, Grand Theft Auto IV.
Widely touted — often by himself — as the funniest man in the world, if not further afield, Gervais will deliver three minutes of new material, as well as some from his Fame tour. (more…)