We don’t mean to alarm you here, but according to leading weather forecasting site Metcheck, there’s some rather extreme weather ahead for UK citizens.
Visiting their site and typing in ‘London’ and then clicking on the weather for Friday brings up a weather forecast so fearsome, nay Biblical, that we expect to see wild panic in the streets swiftly followed by a screaming stampede out of the metropolis.
Continue reading Metcheck Goes Bonkers And Predicts Total Disaster For London
Are you looking for an inside view on the highly impressive Palm Pre, beyond our Full Palm Pre review?
Roger McNamee — his Elevation Partners invested 20% ($425m) of their fund in Palm two years ago when the WebOS and the Palm Pre were taking shape — spills the beans on how they got involved and importantly how Palm turned itself around from the dark days when even hard-bitten Palm fans struggled to find good news about them.
It’s an interesting interview with great quotes like … “The important things to realise is that this is just the first product.”
Well worth watching.
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You can’t get much more mainstream than the mid-morning ITV programme This Morning.
Today the show was opened by long-time TV presenter, Philip Schofield, declaring that he’s on Twitter as @Schofe.
Continue reading Philip Schofield Gives Twitter ‘This Morning’ Boost
Currently slipping under doorways and out through cracks in the wall are shots of the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic handset.
According to a comprehensive pre-release preview on the Mobile Review website, the mid-market Nokia 5730 will pack a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a two inch QVGA screen (240×320 pixels, 31×42 mm), 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, EDGE data and Bluetooth v2.0 with support for EDR running on Symbian S60.
Continue reading Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Smartphone: Details Leaked
Rumours are beginning to circulate that Vodafone may be looking to nab the eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset on an exclusive deal when it’s released in the UK.
YouTube has quietly begun to offer downloadable versions of videos hosted on its site.
It’s off to a rather limited start, with the selection appearing to be currently limited to videos of president elect President Barack Obama.
Nokia’s keenly awaited N97 touchscreen handset looks to have its UK launch date confirmed, with the e-retailer Play.com posting up a pre-order page on their site.
The site lists a release date of March 31st, 2009 for the Nokia N97 with a decidedly upmarket unlocked.sin free price of GBP 479.99 (US$707), with free shipping.
Continue reading Nokia N97 Touchscreen Smartphone Set For March Release?
Janis Krums was heading out of New York at 20:23 last night after a busy day, “Leaving the city, had a great day. Trying to beat the traffic. Wish me luck!” he Tweeted.
Thirteen minutes later he was in a position that he couldn’t have imagined – on a ferry rescuing the passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 that had just ditched into the Hudson River.
How do I know? Continue reading Janis Krums’ Hudson Tweet: A Game Changer
iTunes has been bugging me for a while about upgrading, but frankly, I’m not that interesting in anything beyond it playing me music occasionally, so I ignored it.
Part one of our Sony Vaio P Review was wowed at shiny colours; initial impressions on opening it and amazing screen resolution. Here’s the concluding section.
Keyboard impresses
If the display didn’t exactly knock us out, the keyboard was an unexpected treat. Although it’s clearly substantially smaller than a full laptop keyboard (Sony say that it’s 88 percent the size of their Sony Vaio TT keyboard, which is already smaller than a regular keyboard), it’s extremely well designed. We managed to get up a fair rate of knots on the thing with few errors and would feel comfortable typing out quite a few emails on it.
Continue reading Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC (Part 2/2)