ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase.
They’ve bought a Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum.
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Sony BMG Signs Up To Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Unlimited Download Service
Currently enjoying a nice big synergistic hug and dreaming of a fast-filling cash trough are Nokia and Sony BMG, who have back-slapped themselves silly after striking a deal over the “Comes With Music” service.The deal will give punters with brand spanking new compatible phones a year’s worth of free access to the Sony BMG music catalogue, with pop-pickers (© Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman) able to download tracks to both their mobile device and computer via the Nokia Music Store.
Nokia 5320 And 5220 Handsets Released
Nokia knock out two new phones. We try to get excited.Nokia 5320
The Nokia 5320 comes in a classic candy-bar form factor and serves up the rather gimmicky Say and Play feature. This lets punters bellow a song or name of an artist into their phone, and the software will dutifully serve it up.There’s certainly no shortage of more useful features on board though, with the 3G phone offering a ‘full Internet browser for Web 2.0 access,’ dedicated XpressMusic keys, an audio chip for advanced sound quality, a handy 3.5mm audio jack, a 2.0 Megapixel camera with flash, HS-USB and microSD card support for up to 8GB.
BeatEd Mobile Drum Machine For S60 Smartphones: For Free!
Bus journeys could be set to get even more annoying with the launch of the BeatEd, a simple drum sequencer/ machine for Symbian S60 smartphones.The application offers an easy to use beat editor and the ability to change tempo and volume while playing, so you could really wind up granny on the Number 43 bus.
Wii Fit Tour Analysed and How Consoles Do Get You Fit
Nintendo’s Wii Fit have announced a tour around the UK to show off the Wii Fit and how people can integrate it into getting themselves … well, fit.When the Wii Fit was recently launched in the UK, it was reported as selling out pretty much instantly, which grabbed a few headlines.
(more…)BT Home Hub: Wireless Security Vulnerabilities Discovered
Those with a BT Home Hub — and there’s a lot of them, as it’s currently the most popular DSL router in the UK — might be sleeping a little less soundly tonight following the claims of an ethical hacking group, GNUCitizen, to have found a way to past its Wireless security.Rather than getting all hardcore and going into details of how it came about, we’ll give you the overview.
E-TEN M750 And M810 Smartphones Announced
Taiwanese technology types E-TEN have whipped away the white sheet covering their new Windows Mobile powered Glofiish M750 and M810 smartphones and are waiting for the gasps of “must have” admiration from the market.The two phones are near-identical, although the Glofiish M750 smartphone loses the 3G UMTS/HSDPA support of its bigger bro,’ offering GPRS/EDGE data connectivity instead.
3: Seven Fold Mobile Data Demand Increase
It appears that the success of mobile data has flourished since both the price of modem devices and the costs of using it have plummeted – quelle suprise.3G network provider, Three, is reporting that there’s a seven fold increase in the amount of data that is being passed through their network since the introduction of the Skypephone.
iPhone 3G? SDK Shows It’s Possible
The latest version of Apple’s iPhone SDK appears to reveal that the handset could have 3G – something people have been crying out for since before the launch of the handset.Bye Bye Standby: Save The Planet With Your Thumb
We’re all keen on doing our part on not destroying the planet these days – and quite rightly too.For quite a while, we’ve known that much electrical equipment uses a lot of electricity in standby mode – sometimes, with things such as PVRs, actually more power!
A company calling itself Bye Bye Standby released its new Energy Saving Kit back in September 2007 in the UK.
Today they’ve made it be know that the US equivalent product is now increasingly available.
Currently enjoying a nice big synergistic hug and dreaming of a fast-filling cash trough are Nokia and Sony BMG, who have back-slapped themselves silly after striking a deal over the “Comes With Music” service.
Nokia knock out two new phones. We try to get excited.
Bus journeys could be set to get even more annoying with the launch of the BeatEd, a simple drum sequencer/ machine for Symbian S60 smartphones.
Nintendo’s Wii Fit have announced a tour around the UK to show off the Wii Fit and how people can integrate it into getting themselves … well, fit.
Those with a BT Home Hub — and there’s a lot of them, as it’s currently the most popular DSL router in the UK — might be sleeping a little less soundly tonight following the claims of an ethical hacking group, GNUCitizen, to have found a way to past its Wireless security.
Taiwanese technology types E-TEN have whipped away the white sheet covering their new Windows Mobile powered Glofiish M750 and M810 smartphones and are waiting for the gasps of “must have” admiration from the market.
It appears that the success of mobile data has flourished since both the price of modem devices and the costs of using it have plummeted – quelle suprise.
We’re all keen on doing our part on not destroying the planet these days – and quite rightly too.