Wireless connections
Supermarket giants Tesco will soon start offering shoppers the smallest and cheapest personal DAB Digital radio in town, the teensy weensy Technika DAB-108P.
Set to retail for £34.97, the midget-sized Technika measures up at just 6.9cm long by 3.8 cm wide and weighs in at a mere 52g.
Steve Jobs has been chatting to the Wall Street Journal about the iPhone, its App Store and the ‘Kill Switch.’
Jobs confirmed that an impressive 60 million iPhone applications have been downloaded in the first month of the iPhone App Store.
Opera have been receiving more success in placing their Web browsing software on different platforms, particularly mobile phones.
The latest win is a big one.
Given the media’s initial blind obsession with the iPhone, writing about it as if it were the third-coming, it’s not surprising that, true to form, they’re now getting overheated with a possible bad news story.
It centers on an apparent “Kill Switch,” that _might_ be used to kill applications on the iPhone.
It looks like WiFi on planes is starting to be rolled out again.
US operator Delta Airlines is to offer WiFi Internet access across their fleet of planes using AirCell’s Gogo service.
Going mad in corporate-eez, Richard Anderson, Delta’s chief executive officer, blabbed, “Delta remains committed to providing a travel experience that maximizes the time our customers spend with us onboard by offering them even more productivity options” – translated – we’re going to offer WiFi to people who fly on our planes.
UK broadsheet the Daily Telegraph is dumping its paid-for online subscriptions and making all its online content available for free from today.
The new service will complement the existing news, football and cricket alert services offered by Telegraph Media Group (TMG) and offer news, sport and travel mobile content for users strutting the streets with 3G and WAP-enabled phones.
We’ve no idea why anyone would want an Ikea-branded mobile phone service, but flat-pack furniture freaks will be able to sign up to a branded Ikea service from Friday.
The Swedish furniture kings will be offering a mobile phone package to the 1.4 million members of its loyalty programme after the company snagged a deal with mobile phone group T-Mobile.
We can’t wait to get our hands on an Android OS-based handset, and it looks like our wait may soon be over.
According to Hui-ming Cheng, Chief Financial Officer at enormo handset makers High Tech Computer (HTC), the company will start shifting their first Android-based handsets to ODM clients in the fourth quarter of this year, band on schedule.
Digital-Lifestyles has had its eye on Vocera since 2002, when we spotted their wireless VoIP product. We followed it up in 2004.
Rather than a more ‘normal’ VoIP product that apes the everyday PoTS (Plain old Telephone Service) that we’re historically used to, it takes a leap forward, doing away with a numeric key pad. Communication is via WiFi.
DAB radiomeisters PURE have announced the latest update to their EcoPlus range, the Pure ONE Elite radio.
Hoping to lure your wallet into a spend-frenzy with its rounded corners, shiny chromed controls and tactile soft-touch finish, the Elite comes in black or white finishes and packs the usual large dose of Pure goodness for £70.