UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has given the big thumbs up for the creation of three spanking new high definition (HD) channels on Freeview from Autumn 2009.
Expected to start rolling out from the Granada region first, Channel 4, Taff-tastic Welsh-language broadcasters S4C, plus the gang of Channel 3 licensees (ITV PLC, Channel TV, STV and UTV) will be able to join HD pioneers BBC and start serving up new HD services on digital terrestrial television (DTT).
First launched in 2000 claiming to be “the first mobile browser to bring the full Web to the small mobile screen,” Opera Mobile has now hit 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile.
Based on Opera’s latest core rendering engine, Presto 2.1, the company claims that their new browser is both the most standards-compliant mobile browser in town and their fastest release to date, with “noticeable speed improvements over Opera Mobile 8.65 and IE Mobile.”
Continue reading Opera Mobile Hits v9.5 Beta For Windows Mobile
With the Symbian Smartphone Show currently rocking London we can expect a load of updates over the next couple of days, with the announcement of Samsung’s new I7110 the first out of the gate.
The ‘candybar’ 12.9mm thin phone purrs along on the S60 3rd Edition operating system and packs a 2.6″ QVGA screen (320 x 240 pixels) using AMOLED technology (that’s ‘Active Matrix Organic light emitting diode’ in English).
Continue reading Samsung I7110 Smartphone Offers Pedestrian Navigation
Another day, another accelerometer-packing handset. This time it’s the LG’s new KP500 – codenamed the LG Cookie – and this rather attractive slimline (11.9mm thick) handset packs a 3″ touchscreen display and a fair serving of functionality into its compact frame.
Continue reading LG KP500/LG Cookie Handset Goes For Budget Touchscreen Market
In part one of our review we started to look at what Xara Xtreme has to offer. Read on to find out what we thought of the package as a whole.
As a DTP editor, Xara still has a way to go before it can compete with the big names, but it costs only a fraction of the price of Quark and Indesign and, as a cut price alternative, there’s certainly enough typographic and layout control on tap for many designer’s needs.
Continue reading Xara Xtreme V4 Graphics package – Review (Part 2 – 88%)
In the aftermath of the copious free beer and the sheer delight at seeing the Human League at the Palm Treo Pro launch earlier this week, we forgot to add that we crashed into the UK Palm rep at the end and attempted a Paxman-style merciless grilling in a quest for some hot insights into developments at Palm.
Continue reading Palm Foleo 2 On The Way? The Beer Asks The Questions
I’ve been with Flickr for _ever_. Pretty much as soon as they opened the site, I signed up. Back in those days, you didn’t have an option it was _the_ place to host your photo back then – Site Du Jour … and it was the best executed to boot.
Continue reading Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?
Proudly billing itself as the ‘world’s fastest graphic program,’ Xara continues to serve up an enticing mix of unbeatable speed and real graphics power at a bargain basement price.
We’ve been using the vector and bitmap illustration package program since it first appeared back in 1994 as Xara Studio, and instantly appreciated its super-speedy processing and no-nonsense, simple interface, backed by comprehensive help files and handy movies to get users started.
The small box that the system comes in is deceiving. It contains a DECT phone and basestation, but when you examine the basestation alongside the expected phone connector, there’s a an Ethernet connector too.
The basestation is both a normal telephone answering machine and a VoIP capable device which can be used with up to 6 VoIP accounts/services.
Continue reading Siemens C475IP DECT Cordless VoIP Phone Review (77%)
As part of their profile raising exercise, Palm have been hosting a week long series of events at The Boiler House (renamed ‘The Black Sheep’) in the Old Truman Brewery, right in the heart of trendy Brick Lane.
Continue reading Palm Treo Pro London Launch Rocked By The Human League